CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY UPDATED
ACTUAL QUESTIONS AND CORRECT
ANSWERS FULL SOLUTION STUDY GUIDE
●● Culture
Answer: Perspective and actions that a group of people consider natural,
self-evident, and appropriate
- they are rooted in a shared meaning, the ways people act in social
groups
how we communicate with each other, making life meaningful
●● Explicit knowledge
Answer: Codified knowledge found in documents, databases
-essential for transfer and storage
●● Seven aspects of culture
Answer: Its learned
- uses symbols
- dynamic, always adapting and changing
-integrated with daily experience
- shaped everybody's life
-shared
, - understanding culture involved overcoming ethnocentrism
●● Symbols, values, norms, traditions
Answer: Store their conventional meanings in symbols
2. they are conservative in the way they conserve prevailing idea about
social realizations and morality
3. what is being moralizes, or normal for others
4. the most enduring and ritualized aspects of culture
●● Post-culture relativism
Answer: Understanding a person's beliefs, values, and practices from the
viewpoints of their own culture
●● Enculturation
Answer: The process of learning the cultural rules and logic of a society,
which begins at birth
●● Social institutions
Answer: Organizes sets of social relationships that link individuals to
each other in a structured way in a particular society
●● Functionalism
ACTUAL QUESTIONS AND CORRECT
ANSWERS FULL SOLUTION STUDY GUIDE
●● Culture
Answer: Perspective and actions that a group of people consider natural,
self-evident, and appropriate
- they are rooted in a shared meaning, the ways people act in social
groups
how we communicate with each other, making life meaningful
●● Explicit knowledge
Answer: Codified knowledge found in documents, databases
-essential for transfer and storage
●● Seven aspects of culture
Answer: Its learned
- uses symbols
- dynamic, always adapting and changing
-integrated with daily experience
- shaped everybody's life
-shared
, - understanding culture involved overcoming ethnocentrism
●● Symbols, values, norms, traditions
Answer: Store their conventional meanings in symbols
2. they are conservative in the way they conserve prevailing idea about
social realizations and morality
3. what is being moralizes, or normal for others
4. the most enduring and ritualized aspects of culture
●● Post-culture relativism
Answer: Understanding a person's beliefs, values, and practices from the
viewpoints of their own culture
●● Enculturation
Answer: The process of learning the cultural rules and logic of a society,
which begins at birth
●● Social institutions
Answer: Organizes sets of social relationships that link individuals to
each other in a structured way in a particular society
●● Functionalism
