Review of Course Numbers
... Linguistically oriented approaches to human behavior, including ethnolinguistics, sociolinguistics, and psycholinguistics. The way language functions in culture, society, and the cognitive processes. Introduction to the peoples and cultures of the Pacific Islands. Emphasis is on cultural change and ...
... Linguistically oriented approaches to human behavior, including ethnolinguistics, sociolinguistics, and psycholinguistics. The way language functions in culture, society, and the cognitive processes. Introduction to the peoples and cultures of the Pacific Islands. Emphasis is on cultural change and ...
George Murdock - National Academy of Sciences
... In keeping with his interests, Murdock's first major work after completing his doctorate was Our Primitive Contemporaries (1934), a book of ethnographic summaries that was widely used for many years as a teaching text. The eighteen societies covered constituted a small, representative sample of the ...
... In keeping with his interests, Murdock's first major work after completing his doctorate was Our Primitive Contemporaries (1934), a book of ethnographic summaries that was widely used for many years as a teaching text. The eighteen societies covered constituted a small, representative sample of the ...
The Role of Cultural Context in Theological Reflection
... objective reality, it is actually—to use Morgan's picture—"an unstable edifice that generations constantly labor to build, raze, rebuild, and redesign."' The goal of the meaningmaking task is the formation of personal identity within the context of the social group, i.e., the socially constructed se ...
... objective reality, it is actually—to use Morgan's picture—"an unstable edifice that generations constantly labor to build, raze, rebuild, and redesign."' The goal of the meaningmaking task is the formation of personal identity within the context of the social group, i.e., the socially constructed se ...
chapter 1 - Test Bank Corp
... 4. Primatology, the study of non-human primates, is a specialization within physical anthropology that explores human evolution. 5. Archaeologists spend more time digging up garbage than digging up treasure. 6. Linguistic anthropologists are concerned with discovering how sites and middens are forme ...
... 4. Primatology, the study of non-human primates, is a specialization within physical anthropology that explores human evolution. 5. Archaeologists spend more time digging up garbage than digging up treasure. 6. Linguistic anthropologists are concerned with discovering how sites and middens are forme ...
Introduction: Rethinking Communicative Breakdowns
... As someone interested in the intersections of language and cultural practice, or, more appropriately, the embedded nature of language within cultural practice, I am pleased that this journal issue is devoted to the study of what happens when interaction fails or is threatened. The papers here reflec ...
... As someone interested in the intersections of language and cultural practice, or, more appropriately, the embedded nature of language within cultural practice, I am pleased that this journal issue is devoted to the study of what happens when interaction fails or is threatened. The papers here reflec ...
THE NEW MIDDLE EASTERN ETHNOGRAPHY
... East as a cultural region, or to understand Middle Easterners as having a particular cultural heritage, or even, it seems, to imagine others as separate from ourselves, is an act of aggression, and that all forms of distinction should be refuted as a fundamental moral evil. Abu-Lughod's polemic, lik ...
... East as a cultural region, or to understand Middle Easterners as having a particular cultural heritage, or even, it seems, to imagine others as separate from ourselves, is an act of aggression, and that all forms of distinction should be refuted as a fundamental moral evil. Abu-Lughod's polemic, lik ...
An Introduction to Physical and Cultural Anthropology
... behaviours people have acquired to become members of society. Cultural Anthropology is the investigation of the origin, development and functioning of human cultures. The concept of culture is an important one in anthropology. Culture is a way of living, learned over time and shared by groups of p ...
... behaviours people have acquired to become members of society. Cultural Anthropology is the investigation of the origin, development and functioning of human cultures. The concept of culture is an important one in anthropology. Culture is a way of living, learned over time and shared by groups of p ...
Aalborg Universitet Field Theory in Cultural Capital Studies of Educational Attainment
... themselves, but most importantly the social reality that produces these effects – remains unexploited, underdeveloped, and even unnoticed. As Bourdieu (1984, 94) states in discussing the statistical measures of cultural capital: It would be wholly mistaken to locate in any one of these factors [educ ...
... themselves, but most importantly the social reality that produces these effects – remains unexploited, underdeveloped, and even unnoticed. As Bourdieu (1984, 94) states in discussing the statistical measures of cultural capital: It would be wholly mistaken to locate in any one of these factors [educ ...
ISSN 0340-5443, Volume 64, Number 10
... Betweenness: the number of shortest paths between pairs of individuals that pass through a particular individual. Degree: number of immediate neighbors. Group-based metrics Clustering coefficient: the degree to which an individual’s immediate neighbors are connected. Density: the proportion of edges ...
... Betweenness: the number of shortest paths between pairs of individuals that pass through a particular individual. Degree: number of immediate neighbors. Group-based metrics Clustering coefficient: the degree to which an individual’s immediate neighbors are connected. Density: the proportion of edges ...
BASICS OF SOCIAL CULTURAL
... Anthropologists mainly focus on these universal aspects of culture to study the social relationship. They study how these social institutions have originated and developed. They also study the changes that have occurred in these institutions from the past to the present. As you learned earlier, ther ...
... Anthropologists mainly focus on these universal aspects of culture to study the social relationship. They study how these social institutions have originated and developed. They also study the changes that have occurred in these institutions from the past to the present. As you learned earlier, ther ...
What can be done to reduce overconsumption?
... alter their lifestyles so that they use fewer resources in general. One likely reason for this paucity of research is that social scientists lack a framework that integrates potential economic, social, and psychological factors contributing to resource consumption behavior. Such a framework is neces ...
... alter their lifestyles so that they use fewer resources in general. One likely reason for this paucity of research is that social scientists lack a framework that integrates potential economic, social, and psychological factors contributing to resource consumption behavior. Such a framework is neces ...
1 - Michigan State University
... are no definitions of that phrase (of which I am aware) until it starts appearing in textbooks well into the twentieth century. And with good reason. We have necessarily been better at characterizing than defining cultural relativism (and more ...
... are no definitions of that phrase (of which I am aware) until it starts appearing in textbooks well into the twentieth century. And with good reason. We have necessarily been better at characterizing than defining cultural relativism (and more ...
Anthropology
... your family? • I think my father has more power than my mother in my family. • OR • I think my mother has more power than my father in my family. Copyright 2011 gcb ...
... your family? • I think my father has more power than my mother in my family. • OR • I think my mother has more power than my father in my family. Copyright 2011 gcb ...
Epistemological Bias in the Physical and Social Sciences
... from the West, and limit freedom of research and thought. In identifying and addressing epistemological bias we may create an alternative paradigm. This book’s case studies address this issue and explore latent bias in a particular field; cite specific examples; explain how these biases work and ori ...
... from the West, and limit freedom of research and thought. In identifying and addressing epistemological bias we may create an alternative paradigm. This book’s case studies address this issue and explore latent bias in a particular field; cite specific examples; explain how these biases work and ori ...
Race and ethnicity in the construction of the nation in Spain: the
... Nations are as much historic products as constructions based on the institutionalization of certain notions of the social that ground their legitimacy and authority. These notions become part of the dominant political, ideological and symbolic order, which is both imagined and naturalized – that is, ...
... Nations are as much historic products as constructions based on the institutionalization of certain notions of the social that ground their legitimacy and authority. These notions become part of the dominant political, ideological and symbolic order, which is both imagined and naturalized – that is, ...
Cognitive Anthropology - Penn Arts and Sciences
... attribute them a special competence to reason from possibly God-given universal principles. Similarly, public opinion or socially accepted norms may be invoked because they are considered as indicative of the good, without for all that conceiving the good as that which is sanctioned by public opinio ...
... attribute them a special competence to reason from possibly God-given universal principles. Similarly, public opinion or socially accepted norms may be invoked because they are considered as indicative of the good, without for all that conceiving the good as that which is sanctioned by public opinio ...
Cultural Evolution: Integration and Scepticism
... Other instances of hostility to cultural evolution are harder to diagnose. Social anthropologists sometimes begin their attacks on cultural evolutionary theories by pointing to the worryingly progressive connotations of the term “evolution.” An evolutionary account evokes images of higher and lower ...
... Other instances of hostility to cultural evolution are harder to diagnose. Social anthropologists sometimes begin their attacks on cultural evolutionary theories by pointing to the worryingly progressive connotations of the term “evolution.” An evolutionary account evokes images of higher and lower ...
here - Centre for Research on Socio
... discourse’. Argues that a number of specific and hierarchical values are integral to this discourse which have a negative effect of alternative ‘heritages’ and the identity formations associated with them (e.g. Indigenous Australians). Integral to the AHD for instance is 1. that heritage value is se ...
... discourse’. Argues that a number of specific and hierarchical values are integral to this discourse which have a negative effect of alternative ‘heritages’ and the identity formations associated with them (e.g. Indigenous Australians). Integral to the AHD for instance is 1. that heritage value is se ...
The Cultural Evolution of Technology and Science
... has dramatically accelerated technological evolution and represents a unique system of knowledge not seen in any other species (McCauley, this volume). Advances in our understanding of these two phenomena have been achieved across the social sciences and humanities. Here we explore how the burgeonin ...
... has dramatically accelerated technological evolution and represents a unique system of knowledge not seen in any other species (McCauley, this volume). Advances in our understanding of these two phenomena have been achieved across the social sciences and humanities. Here we explore how the burgeonin ...
Towards a New Approach in Social Simulations
... value dimension. These composite indices are then used for measuring cultural differences among different societies. A multi-agent simulation application of this approach is present in this volume which takes Hofstede’s power distance dimension to formulate behavioral rules for artificial trading ag ...
... value dimension. These composite indices are then used for measuring cultural differences among different societies. A multi-agent simulation application of this approach is present in this volume which takes Hofstede’s power distance dimension to formulate behavioral rules for artificial trading ag ...
FullText - Brunel University Research Archive
... concerning behavioral expectations for members of a particular social group. However, to the extent that individuals within a group internalize those norms (especially as the result of socialization by societal agents, such as families, religious institutions, and educational institutions), individu ...
... concerning behavioral expectations for members of a particular social group. However, to the extent that individuals within a group internalize those norms (especially as the result of socialization by societal agents, such as families, religious institutions, and educational institutions), individu ...
Anthropology Course Offerings – Fall 2012 ANTH
... ANTH-A594 Independent Learning in Applied Anthropology (3 cr.) Prerequisite: Permission of instructor. Independent research/training using the anthropological perspective/methods in addressing social issues. The project must be a discrete activity with a concrete product, conducted in conjunction wi ...
... ANTH-A594 Independent Learning in Applied Anthropology (3 cr.) Prerequisite: Permission of instructor. Independent research/training using the anthropological perspective/methods in addressing social issues. The project must be a discrete activity with a concrete product, conducted in conjunction wi ...
Chapter 1 What is Anthropology?
... Broader in scope than other disciplines Every part of the world containing human ...
... Broader in scope than other disciplines Every part of the world containing human ...
Representations, identity and resistance in communication
... Culture informs the ways we think and act in relation to everything – even the ways in which we think about communication. Hayakawa (1978) for example, points out how communication is represented in Western cultures, where the listener is often positioned as subordinate to the active and independen ...
... Culture informs the ways we think and act in relation to everything – even the ways in which we think about communication. Hayakawa (1978) for example, points out how communication is represented in Western cultures, where the listener is often positioned as subordinate to the active and independen ...
Bonvillain chapter 1
... way of life. This is an example of selective borrowing that takes place when members of different cultures meet, share experiences, and learn from one another. Global influences have accelerated borrowing over the last five centuries. The Zunis reverse the ethical standing of the story’s characters. ...
... way of life. This is an example of selective borrowing that takes place when members of different cultures meet, share experiences, and learn from one another. Global influences have accelerated borrowing over the last five centuries. The Zunis reverse the ethical standing of the story’s characters. ...