Psychiatry has been a frequent subject of medical anthropology. One critical finding is:
a. The Freudian model of psychoanalysis is appropriate to all cultures universally.
b. People in all cultures experience universal psycho-sexual stages of development.
c. Schizophrenics are considered ill in Western cultures but are considered religiously enlightened in other cultures.
d. Doctors are most frequently trained to treat mental disease as a result of either biological dysfunction or psychosocial factors but not both.
e. Mental illness is always caused by social factors, but because of the influence of drug companies, doctors are reluctant to believe this finding.
D
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William Tulio Divale and Marvin Harris propose that violence in a given society correlates to:
A) ?the degree of male bias present in social norms and practices. B) ?the relative level of industrial development. C) ?the relative level of industrial development. D) ?the level of racial diversity in a society.
A national Indonesian language based on __________ is taught throughout the country and used in all public contexts
a. Malay b. Samoan c. Timorese d. Dutch
Practice theory
A. explains social phenomena only in nonindustrial societies. B. actually shares the same deterministic assumptions of earlier theoretical paradigms. C. was popularized by Margaret Mead in the 1940s. D. focuses on how individuals, through their actions and practices, influence and transform the world they live in. E. is the only theoretical paradigm to effectively solve the "culture-individual" problem.
Which of the following statements about early anthropological investigations is accurate?
What will be an ideal response?