What is the purpose of using the ethnographic method as a research approach?
A) ?To try to see the world as others do in order to understand and describe these different views.
B) ?To measure one's personal values against other values.
C) ?To question the beliefs of the society being studied.
D) ?To ask embarrassing questions about other cultures.
A
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When we describe a culture as being polychronic, we mean that people:
a. feel comfortable engaging in a number of activities simultaneously. b. tend to be extremely punctual. c. prefer to engage in only one activity at a time. d. believe in the saying “time is money.” e. are extremely ethnocentric.
Anthropology is a comparatively young discipline. It was only in the late _________ that anthropologists began to go live with people in faraway places
a. 1700s b. 1850s c. 1900s d. 1800s
Which of the following is not an accurate portrayal of agricultural societies and food production? a. They led to an overall increase in length and quality of life
b. They involved much higher work levels and an increase in disease. c. Agricultural societies had diets of less variety than foragers. d. As a result of agriculture, population rate began to rise.
One of the main differences between descent groups and nuclear families is that
A. nuclear families are always exogamous, while descent groups are always endogamous. B. members of descent groups are called affines, while members of nuclear families are consanguines. C. nuclear families are found only in industrial societies, while descent groups are found only in foraging societies. D. descent groups are permanent, while nuclear families are not. E. descent groups are typically not involved with politics, while nuclear families are.