FINAL EXAM AT&T With Questions and Correct Graded A+ Answers
Nomothetic - Answer-appraoch geared toward producing generalizations or scientific laws. (Contrasts
with ideographic).
Positivism - Answer-doctrine that scientific knowledge pertainsonly to empirical experience and is built
up through the generation of propositional knowledge.
Materialism - Answer-the philosophical perspective based upon a material ontology in which casuality is
attributed to the physical properties of things, whether molecules, bacteria, brains or cultures. It is
associated with the view that all things can be explained in terms of their material attributes.
Skepticism - Answer-fundamental principle of modern science where any questioning attitude or doubt
towards one or more items of putative knowledge or belief
Replicability - Answer-the scientific requirement that results must be tested by different researchers in
order to establish the validity of propositions.
Deduction - Answer-logical reasoning from the general to the particular, or reasoning which starts with a
proposition and stipulates the consequences that follow from that proposition.
Induction - Answer-inference of propositions on the basis of specific observations
Theory - Answer--a supposition or a system of ideas intended to explain something
-a set of principles on which the practice of an activity is based
-an idea used to account for a situation or justify a course of action
- A set of hypotheses that have not been refuted and have explanatory value
, Hypothesis - Answer-a testable propositon about a set of expectations derived from a theory that should
be found in a real world if the theory is valid
Alfred l. Kroeber (Quote) - Answer-"Anthropology is the most humanistic of the sciences and the most
scientific of the humanities"
Alfred l. Kroeber (Quote) - Answer-"configurations of culture growth"
Robert H. Lowie (Quote) - Answer-"Psychology is what is not culture"
Robert H. Lowie (Quote) - Answer-"Psychological reductionism cannot explain ethnographic facts"
Alfred l. Kroeber Fieldwork Sites - Answer-California Indians, New Mexico, Peru, Mexico, India,
Southeast Asia
Bohannon and Glazer (Quote) - Answer-"Individual genius is part of a cultrual er aand not an
independent agent"
Bohannon and Glazer (Quote) - Answer-"societies frequently develop cultural configurations
'spasmodically' when cultural patterns develop, geniuses cluster within certain periods in relationship to
cultural growth"
Franz Boas (Quote) - Answer-"In other words, we are interested in the anatomical and mental
characteristics of men living under the saem biological, geographical and social environment, and as
determined by their past"
Franz Boas (Quote) - Answer-"furthermore, the study of the present surroundings is insufficient: the
history of the people, the infuence of the regions through which it has passed on its migrations, and the
people with whom it came into contact, must be considered."
Nomothetic - Answer-appraoch geared toward producing generalizations or scientific laws. (Contrasts
with ideographic).
Positivism - Answer-doctrine that scientific knowledge pertainsonly to empirical experience and is built
up through the generation of propositional knowledge.
Materialism - Answer-the philosophical perspective based upon a material ontology in which casuality is
attributed to the physical properties of things, whether molecules, bacteria, brains or cultures. It is
associated with the view that all things can be explained in terms of their material attributes.
Skepticism - Answer-fundamental principle of modern science where any questioning attitude or doubt
towards one or more items of putative knowledge or belief
Replicability - Answer-the scientific requirement that results must be tested by different researchers in
order to establish the validity of propositions.
Deduction - Answer-logical reasoning from the general to the particular, or reasoning which starts with a
proposition and stipulates the consequences that follow from that proposition.
Induction - Answer-inference of propositions on the basis of specific observations
Theory - Answer--a supposition or a system of ideas intended to explain something
-a set of principles on which the practice of an activity is based
-an idea used to account for a situation or justify a course of action
- A set of hypotheses that have not been refuted and have explanatory value
, Hypothesis - Answer-a testable propositon about a set of expectations derived from a theory that should
be found in a real world if the theory is valid
Alfred l. Kroeber (Quote) - Answer-"Anthropology is the most humanistic of the sciences and the most
scientific of the humanities"
Alfred l. Kroeber (Quote) - Answer-"configurations of culture growth"
Robert H. Lowie (Quote) - Answer-"Psychology is what is not culture"
Robert H. Lowie (Quote) - Answer-"Psychological reductionism cannot explain ethnographic facts"
Alfred l. Kroeber Fieldwork Sites - Answer-California Indians, New Mexico, Peru, Mexico, India,
Southeast Asia
Bohannon and Glazer (Quote) - Answer-"Individual genius is part of a cultrual er aand not an
independent agent"
Bohannon and Glazer (Quote) - Answer-"societies frequently develop cultural configurations
'spasmodically' when cultural patterns develop, geniuses cluster within certain periods in relationship to
cultural growth"
Franz Boas (Quote) - Answer-"In other words, we are interested in the anatomical and mental
characteristics of men living under the saem biological, geographical and social environment, and as
determined by their past"
Franz Boas (Quote) - Answer-"furthermore, the study of the present surroundings is insufficient: the
history of the people, the infuence of the regions through which it has passed on its migrations, and the
people with whom it came into contact, must be considered."
