What are some of the arguments for and against the interpretation of the mass media as forms of cultural imperialism?
What will be an ideal response?
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Most groups and societies in the world fit neatly into one of Fried's three classifications according to their degree of stratification
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How does the early speech pattern of children compare to creole languages?
A) The errors children make are consistent with the grammar of creoles. B) Children seem to have an innate grammar in their own language, while creole languages lack a basic grammar. C) Creole languages have a simple but consistent grammar, but children's early speech errors have no particular pattern. D) Creole languages have more complex grammatical structure than that seen in childhood speech.
Historical particularism is a form of postmodernism
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What did Bronislaw Malinowski mean when he referred to everyday cultural patterns as "the imponderabilia of native life and of typical behavior"?
A. Everyday cultural patterns of native life can best be studied by asking key informants to explain them. B. Everyday cultural patterns are important but so numerous that their detailed description should not be included in the main body of an ethnographic study. C. Features of everyday culture are, at first, imponderable, but as the ethnographer builds rapport, their logic and functional value in society become clear. D. Features of culture such as distinctive smells, noises people make, how they cover their mouths when they eat, and how they gaze at each other are so fundamental that natives take them for granted but are there for the ethnographer to describe and make sense of. E. Everyday cultural patterns are full of senseless cultural "noise," and it is the anthropologist's job to get at the truly valuable behaviors that distinguish one culture from another.