ANTHROPOLOGY APPRECIATING HUMAN
DIVERSITY LEARNING WORKBOOK 2026
CULTURE SOCIETY AND HUMAN BEHAVIOR
◉ What are the subdisciplines of anthropology?
Answer: Sociocultural, Archeological, Biological, and Linguistic.
◉ What does sociocultural anthropology study?
Answer: The study of human society and culture, describing,
analyzing, interpreting, and explaining similarities and differences
among societies.
◉ What does archeological anthropology focus on?
Answer: Reconstructing, describing, and interpreting human
behavior and cultural patterns through material remains.
◉ What is the focus of biological anthropology?
Answer: The study of human biological diversity through time and
as it exists in the world today.
◉ What does linguistic anthropology study?
,Answer: Language in its social and cultural context, throughout the
world and over time.
◉ What is culture?
Answer: Learned and shared meanings that mediate our relations
with our broader social and material world.
◉ How is culture distinguished from society and biology?
Answer: Culture is learned and shared, while society refers to
human groups, and biology refers to biological aspects.
◉ What is scientific racism?
Answer: The misuse of science to argue that racial differences
determine intelligence, behavior, or worth, used to justify inequality.
◉ What are the main claims of scientific racism?
Answer: Humans can be divided into distinct biological groups
called races, and each race is naturally different biologically.
◉ What is the definition of race in anthropology?
Answer: When an ethnic group is assumed to have a biological basis.
◉ Why is race not considered biological?
, Answer: There are no sharp genetic lines between groups; traits
change gradually across geography.
◉ What is colonialism?
Answer: The foreign domination of a territory, establishing
multitribal and multiethnic states.
◉ Who was Linnaeus and what did he propose?
Answer: He categorized humans into 'variants' of Homo sapiens
based on skin color.
◉ What did Blumenbach contribute to the concept of race?
Answer: He provided the first explicit scientific delineation of races,
defining five different races.
◉ What are Hooton's major races?
Answer: Caucasoid, Mongoloid, and *******.
◉ What is monogenesis?
Answer: The theory that all humankind has one common origin.
◉ What is polygenesis?
Answer: The theory that each race has its own independent origin.
DIVERSITY LEARNING WORKBOOK 2026
CULTURE SOCIETY AND HUMAN BEHAVIOR
◉ What are the subdisciplines of anthropology?
Answer: Sociocultural, Archeological, Biological, and Linguistic.
◉ What does sociocultural anthropology study?
Answer: The study of human society and culture, describing,
analyzing, interpreting, and explaining similarities and differences
among societies.
◉ What does archeological anthropology focus on?
Answer: Reconstructing, describing, and interpreting human
behavior and cultural patterns through material remains.
◉ What is the focus of biological anthropology?
Answer: The study of human biological diversity through time and
as it exists in the world today.
◉ What does linguistic anthropology study?
,Answer: Language in its social and cultural context, throughout the
world and over time.
◉ What is culture?
Answer: Learned and shared meanings that mediate our relations
with our broader social and material world.
◉ How is culture distinguished from society and biology?
Answer: Culture is learned and shared, while society refers to
human groups, and biology refers to biological aspects.
◉ What is scientific racism?
Answer: The misuse of science to argue that racial differences
determine intelligence, behavior, or worth, used to justify inequality.
◉ What are the main claims of scientific racism?
Answer: Humans can be divided into distinct biological groups
called races, and each race is naturally different biologically.
◉ What is the definition of race in anthropology?
Answer: When an ethnic group is assumed to have a biological basis.
◉ Why is race not considered biological?
, Answer: There are no sharp genetic lines between groups; traits
change gradually across geography.
◉ What is colonialism?
Answer: The foreign domination of a territory, establishing
multitribal and multiethnic states.
◉ Who was Linnaeus and what did he propose?
Answer: He categorized humans into 'variants' of Homo sapiens
based on skin color.
◉ What did Blumenbach contribute to the concept of race?
Answer: He provided the first explicit scientific delineation of races,
defining five different races.
◉ What are Hooton's major races?
Answer: Caucasoid, Mongoloid, and *******.
◉ What is monogenesis?
Answer: The theory that all humankind has one common origin.
◉ What is polygenesis?
Answer: The theory that each race has its own independent origin.
