Define social impact assessment and analyze why it is important
What will be an ideal response?
Answer: The ideal answer will include:
1. A social impact assessment is a study conducted to predict the potential social costs and benefits of particular innovations before change is undertaken.
2. Research by cultural anthropologists shows that people need to be informed about possible changes to their culture by innovations in advance, so that they can make an informed decision about whether to change or not.
3. The importance is that such advance awareness could prevent disastrous unforeseen consequences.
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An archetype can be considered to be:
A. a reproductive population B. the class of animals to which a specific species belongs C. the divine plan for a particular animal D. the reconstructed common ancestor of a group of organisms
Myths, according to Claude L vi-Strauss, are
A) literal representations of tribal history. B) native misconceptions about history. C) pre-logical representations of primitive thought. D) symbolic formulas for resolving value conflicts. E) none of the above.
A major point of the ethnography "Body Ritual among the Nacirema" is to:
a. Show how foolish people's rituals are. b. Help us look at our own culture from a different perspective. c. Promote practices of preventive medicine. d. Increase our respect for primitive cultures. e. Put a little laughter into our dreary lives.
Which of the following is not a social function of surpluses?
a. Stabilization of social networks via distribution to the less fortunate b. Distribution in ritual contexts c. Appropriation through taxation to support government and public services d. Hoarding to increase the divide between wealthy and poor