SOSA 1002 STUDY GUIDE
When did Anthro start? - Answers - mid to late 1800
Anthropology - Answers - takes us out of our taken for granted world and is the study of
humans social and cultural variation
What is Anthropology - Answers - the intellectual pursuit that assists to use a particular
perspective or way of looking at things
Naiive Realism - Answers - the problem that people perceive everything in the same
way and that everything has a universal meaning
Culture - Answers - learned and shared knowledge to generate behaviour - a shared
system of meaning
3 characteristics of Culture - Answers - - based on symbols
-is learned
-always changing
Explicit Culture - Answers - what people think to tell you - and is routinely talked about
Tacit Culture - Answers - informal - you just pick it up
Ethnocentrism - Answers - judging or interpreting other peoples cultural practices or
beliefs from your own cultural standing - the belief and feeling that ones own culture is
best
Ethno Wrongs - Answers - our own behaviours are right and everyone else is wrong
Cultural relativism - Answers - the idea that no belief or practice can be judged as wrong
or misguided on the ole basis that it is different from your own
Relativist Fallacy - Answers - we can't judge others
Bronislaw Malionowski - Answers - developed the fieldwork idea
Building rapport - Answers - finding a common ground, building relationships, becoming
apart of a community
Language - Answers - shared system of cultural knowledge used to generate and
interpret speech
Code switching - Answers - shift in the language spoken
, Economic System - Answers - social and cultural system that deals in the provision of
goods and services to human wants and needs
3 elements of economic systems - Answers - production
exchange and distribution
consumption
production - Answers - part of the economic system to survive
Exchange and distribution - Answers - a way in which to get things to people
Consumption - Answers - using and using up resources
reciprocal exchange - Answers - based on role obligation - the transfer of goods
between 2 or more people -
Redistribution - Answers - the transfer of goods between some sort of central collecting
source
Market exchange - Answers - transfer of goods and services, price is based on supply
and demand
ethnography - Answers - process of discovering and describing a particular culture
culture shock - Answers - is the state of anxiety that results from cross cultural
misunderstanding
microcultures - Answers - are systems of cultural knowledge characteristic of subgroups
within larger societies
Why Study gift exchange? - Answers - -provides a window into social relationships
-how people communicate with each other and what kind of relationship they have
Gift - Answers - -any object or service that is given to a person or group to create or
affirm a social relationship
Principle of reciprocity - Answers - -giving a gift creates a social tie with the person
receiving it
-eventually that person is obligated to reciprocate in some way
-may or may not be equivalent
-cycle of giving and receiving
-when you accept a gift you accept a relationship
Balanced reciprocity - Answers - -less common
-when items or services are exchanged more or less immediately
-gifts are equal or nearly equal value
When did Anthro start? - Answers - mid to late 1800
Anthropology - Answers - takes us out of our taken for granted world and is the study of
humans social and cultural variation
What is Anthropology - Answers - the intellectual pursuit that assists to use a particular
perspective or way of looking at things
Naiive Realism - Answers - the problem that people perceive everything in the same
way and that everything has a universal meaning
Culture - Answers - learned and shared knowledge to generate behaviour - a shared
system of meaning
3 characteristics of Culture - Answers - - based on symbols
-is learned
-always changing
Explicit Culture - Answers - what people think to tell you - and is routinely talked about
Tacit Culture - Answers - informal - you just pick it up
Ethnocentrism - Answers - judging or interpreting other peoples cultural practices or
beliefs from your own cultural standing - the belief and feeling that ones own culture is
best
Ethno Wrongs - Answers - our own behaviours are right and everyone else is wrong
Cultural relativism - Answers - the idea that no belief or practice can be judged as wrong
or misguided on the ole basis that it is different from your own
Relativist Fallacy - Answers - we can't judge others
Bronislaw Malionowski - Answers - developed the fieldwork idea
Building rapport - Answers - finding a common ground, building relationships, becoming
apart of a community
Language - Answers - shared system of cultural knowledge used to generate and
interpret speech
Code switching - Answers - shift in the language spoken
, Economic System - Answers - social and cultural system that deals in the provision of
goods and services to human wants and needs
3 elements of economic systems - Answers - production
exchange and distribution
consumption
production - Answers - part of the economic system to survive
Exchange and distribution - Answers - a way in which to get things to people
Consumption - Answers - using and using up resources
reciprocal exchange - Answers - based on role obligation - the transfer of goods
between 2 or more people -
Redistribution - Answers - the transfer of goods between some sort of central collecting
source
Market exchange - Answers - transfer of goods and services, price is based on supply
and demand
ethnography - Answers - process of discovering and describing a particular culture
culture shock - Answers - is the state of anxiety that results from cross cultural
misunderstanding
microcultures - Answers - are systems of cultural knowledge characteristic of subgroups
within larger societies
Why Study gift exchange? - Answers - -provides a window into social relationships
-how people communicate with each other and what kind of relationship they have
Gift - Answers - -any object or service that is given to a person or group to create or
affirm a social relationship
Principle of reciprocity - Answers - -giving a gift creates a social tie with the person
receiving it
-eventually that person is obligated to reciprocate in some way
-may or may not be equivalent
-cycle of giving and receiving
-when you accept a gift you accept a relationship
Balanced reciprocity - Answers - -less common
-when items or services are exchanged more or less immediately
-gifts are equal or nearly equal value
