Culture and Society (Exam 1) Questions
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Which of the following best describes biological anthropology? - correct
answers✅✅The study of human biological diversity
How are cultural rights different from human rights? - correct
answers✅✅Cultural rights are vested in groups, not in individuals
Descriptive linguistics is mostly concerned with... - correct
answers✅✅describing how a language is constructed, its sound and
grammar
During a massive construction project a city came across a treasure of
archaeological sites under its streets. It decided to call in an expert to help
decide what needed to be saved and how to preserve information about
what was not saved. This expert's role is best described as... - correct
answers✅✅cultural resource management
Regarding human capacity for culture, anthropologists agree that... - correct
answers✅✅although individuals differ in their emotional and intellectual
capacities, all human populations have equivalent capacities for culture
What are the four subdisciplines of anthropology? - correct
answers✅✅biological anthropology, linguistic anthropology, cultural
anthropology, and archaeology
An anthropologist has just arrived at a new field site and feels overwhelmed
with a creepy, profound feeling of alienation, of being without some of the
most ordinary, trivial and therefore basic cues of his culture of origin. What
term best describes what he is experiencing? - correct answers✅✅culture
shock
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A holistic and comparative perspective - correct answers✅✅most
characterizes anthropology when compared to other disciplines that study
humans
People have to eat, but culture teaches us what, when, and how to do so.
This is an example of how... - correct answers✅✅culture takes the natural
biological urges we share with other animals and teaches us how to express
them in particular ways
What is anthropology? - correct answers✅✅The study of humans around
the world and through time
Institutional non-verbal communication is best typified by... - correct
answers✅✅the placement of chairs and blackboard in a classroom
Which of the following was studied by Sapir and Whorf? - correct
answers✅✅The influence of language on thought
Something verbal or non-verbal that stands for something else is known as
a... - correct answers✅✅symbol
In anthropology, culture relativism is not a moral position but a
methodological one. It states that... - correct answers✅✅to understand
another culture fully, we must try to understand how the people in that
culture see things
Why is ethnography one of the most valuable and distinctive tools of the
applied anthropologist? - correct answers✅✅It provides a firsthand
account of the day-to-day issues and challenges that the members of a given
community face, as well as a sense of how those people think about and
react to these issues
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Which of the following best describes biological anthropology? - correct
answers✅✅The study of human biological diversity
How are cultural rights different from human rights? - correct
answers✅✅Cultural rights are vested in groups, not in individuals
Descriptive linguistics is mostly concerned with... - correct
answers✅✅describing how a language is constructed, its sound and
grammar
During a massive construction project a city came across a treasure of
archaeological sites under its streets. It decided to call in an expert to help
decide what needed to be saved and how to preserve information about
what was not saved. This expert's role is best described as... - correct
answers✅✅cultural resource management
Regarding human capacity for culture, anthropologists agree that... - correct
answers✅✅although individuals differ in their emotional and intellectual
capacities, all human populations have equivalent capacities for culture
What are the four subdisciplines of anthropology? - correct
answers✅✅biological anthropology, linguistic anthropology, cultural
anthropology, and archaeology
An anthropologist has just arrived at a new field site and feels overwhelmed
with a creepy, profound feeling of alienation, of being without some of the
most ordinary, trivial and therefore basic cues of his culture of origin. What
term best describes what he is experiencing? - correct answers✅✅culture
shock
, Culture and Society (Exam 1) Questions
and Answer A+ Rated
A holistic and comparative perspective - correct answers✅✅most
characterizes anthropology when compared to other disciplines that study
humans
People have to eat, but culture teaches us what, when, and how to do so.
This is an example of how... - correct answers✅✅culture takes the natural
biological urges we share with other animals and teaches us how to express
them in particular ways
What is anthropology? - correct answers✅✅The study of humans around
the world and through time
Institutional non-verbal communication is best typified by... - correct
answers✅✅the placement of chairs and blackboard in a classroom
Which of the following was studied by Sapir and Whorf? - correct
answers✅✅The influence of language on thought
Something verbal or non-verbal that stands for something else is known as
a... - correct answers✅✅symbol
In anthropology, culture relativism is not a moral position but a
methodological one. It states that... - correct answers✅✅to understand
another culture fully, we must try to understand how the people in that
culture see things
Why is ethnography one of the most valuable and distinctive tools of the
applied anthropologist? - correct answers✅✅It provides a firsthand
account of the day-to-day issues and challenges that the members of a given
community face, as well as a sense of how those people think about and
react to these issues
