Beginning to Understand Ethics
... ANS: what ethical subjectivism is compatible with moral absolutism, in that the individual or society to whose attitudes moral propositions refer can hold some moral principle to apply regardless of circumstances? (That is, a moral principle can be relative to an individual, but not relative to circ ...
... ANS: what ethical subjectivism is compatible with moral absolutism, in that the individual or society to whose attitudes moral propositions refer can hold some moral principle to apply regardless of circumstances? (That is, a moral principle can be relative to an individual, but not relative to circ ...
Cultural Evolution models and their tragic flaws
... • Cultural Evolution often posits a progressive rise in human rationality – Some cultures get labeled as “childlike” and others as “mature” in their ...
... • Cultural Evolution often posits a progressive rise in human rationality – Some cultures get labeled as “childlike” and others as “mature” in their ...
Cultural Evolution models and their tragic flaws
... • Cultural Evolution often posits a progressive rise in human rationality – Some cultures get labeled as “childlike” and others as “mature” in their ...
... • Cultural Evolution often posits a progressive rise in human rationality – Some cultures get labeled as “childlike” and others as “mature” in their ...
Understanding Cultural Relativism in a Multicultural World
... values and presuppositions, and not those of another. Only through such an approach will its contributions be understood. This principle of evaluating other perspectives on their own merits is important for all disciplines and not just for ethics versus the social sciences. The usual approach is the ...
... values and presuppositions, and not those of another. Only through such an approach will its contributions be understood. This principle of evaluating other perspectives on their own merits is important for all disciplines and not just for ethics versus the social sciences. The usual approach is the ...
CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY (ANTH 100)
... double‐spaced pages. Short reading‐analyses throughout semester based on texts. ...
... double‐spaced pages. Short reading‐analyses throughout semester based on texts. ...
Document
... known as descriptive relativism. (b) An inductive argument to the effect that failures in previous attempts to resolve disagreements arising from (a) show that there are no universal criteria for adjudicating between different world-views. (c) The methodological assumption that human behavior and th ...
... known as descriptive relativism. (b) An inductive argument to the effect that failures in previous attempts to resolve disagreements arising from (a) show that there are no universal criteria for adjudicating between different world-views. (c) The methodological assumption that human behavior and th ...
Multiple-choice
... 11. Ideal cultural patterns are best defined as A. the way some people in a society behave in a certain situation. B. the ways in which all people in a society behave in a certain situation. C. the way a society believes that people should behave in a specific situation. D. the way anthropologists s ...
... 11. Ideal cultural patterns are best defined as A. the way some people in a society behave in a certain situation. B. the ways in which all people in a society behave in a certain situation. C. the way a society believes that people should behave in a specific situation. D. the way anthropologists s ...
Anthropological Concepts
... Humans have adapted by manipulating environments through cultural means All cultures change and adapt over time. Cultural adaptation serves to meets the basic needs of a cultural group for food and shelter, procreation, and social order. Humans have come to depend more and more on cultural adaptatio ...
... Humans have adapted by manipulating environments through cultural means All cultures change and adapt over time. Cultural adaptation serves to meets the basic needs of a cultural group for food and shelter, procreation, and social order. Humans have come to depend more and more on cultural adaptatio ...
1 - VUTube
... Market Exchange system Generalized Reciprocity Labour Specialization Globalization ...
... Market Exchange system Generalized Reciprocity Labour Specialization Globalization ...
Anthropolgoy
... sites of prehistoric and historic significance, evaluating their importance and making recommendations about total or partial ...
... sites of prehistoric and historic significance, evaluating their importance and making recommendations about total or partial ...
clouds
... Divine Command Theory -- “Any position in ethics which claims that the rightness or wrongness of actions depends on whether they correspond to God’s commands or not.” ...
... Divine Command Theory -- “Any position in ethics which claims that the rightness or wrongness of actions depends on whether they correspond to God’s commands or not.” ...
Anthropology 2A Cultural Anthropology
... anatomy, anthropology!) and cultures being found worldwide that seemed similar to the “less evolved” European prehistoric culture, this European laudatory attitude persisted for a good 200-300 years, but then the ideology began to shift… Questions arose: ...
... anatomy, anthropology!) and cultures being found worldwide that seemed similar to the “less evolved” European prehistoric culture, this European laudatory attitude persisted for a good 200-300 years, but then the ideology began to shift… Questions arose: ...
Anthropology 2A Cultural Anthropology
... anatomy, anthropology!) and cultures being found worldwide that seemed similar to the “less evolved” European prehistoric culture, this European laudatory attitude persisted for a good 200-300 years, but then the ideology began to shift… Questions arose: ...
... anatomy, anthropology!) and cultures being found worldwide that seemed similar to the “less evolved” European prehistoric culture, this European laudatory attitude persisted for a good 200-300 years, but then the ideology began to shift… Questions arose: ...
Chapter 3: How Can I Know What is Right?
... Ethical skeptics – doubt whether there is such a thing as moral truth Ethical relativists – deny that there are any universally valid moral principles Ethical absolutists – claim there are moral absolutes Teleological ethical theories – consequences determine the rightness of an action Deontological ...
... Ethical skeptics – doubt whether there is such a thing as moral truth Ethical relativists – deny that there are any universally valid moral principles Ethical absolutists – claim there are moral absolutes Teleological ethical theories – consequences determine the rightness of an action Deontological ...
Chapter One: Moral Reasons
... Trying to arrive at the best moral reasons for acting Choosing the morally right course of action ...
... Trying to arrive at the best moral reasons for acting Choosing the morally right course of action ...
Chapter 5 - Oxford University Press
... One thing that makes me really like Margaret Mead is that she was very progressive. She was in favor of freedom and tolerance of all people. She supported civil rights and believed that humans could do really good things if they work together. She thought that ideas of racism or war were cultural an ...
... One thing that makes me really like Margaret Mead is that she was very progressive. She was in favor of freedom and tolerance of all people. She supported civil rights and believed that humans could do really good things if they work together. She thought that ideas of racism or war were cultural an ...
CULTURES - San Jose State University
... What are some problems with these theories? Implied racialized worldview Indigenous peoples have just as much history, and are just as “evolved,” as so-called “civilized” societies. The Indigenous Mind The Dream Time ...
... What are some problems with these theories? Implied racialized worldview Indigenous peoples have just as much history, and are just as “evolved,” as so-called “civilized” societies. The Indigenous Mind The Dream Time ...
indigenous people - Bakersfield College
... – Westernization – influence of Western expansion on other societies – Destruction, domination, resistance, survival, adaptation, and modification of local cultures may follow interethnic contact ...
... – Westernization – influence of Western expansion on other societies – Destruction, domination, resistance, survival, adaptation, and modification of local cultures may follow interethnic contact ...
Anthropology
... What ideas or explanations do we use to describe what causes a culture to change? Do these explanations apply to the modern world? Is social change caused by single factors, or many interrelated ...
... What ideas or explanations do we use to describe what causes a culture to change? Do these explanations apply to the modern world? Is social change caused by single factors, or many interrelated ...
History of Anthropology - Fullerton Union High School
... Outlined an evolutionary scheme that traced seven stages of societies from savage to civilized Each of the stages was connected to technological achievement Also focused heavily on kinship systems His work influenced later philosophers and social scientists, such as Marx and Engels ...
... Outlined an evolutionary scheme that traced seven stages of societies from savage to civilized Each of the stages was connected to technological achievement Also focused heavily on kinship systems His work influenced later philosophers and social scientists, such as Marx and Engels ...
History of Anthropology
... Outlined an evolutionary scheme that traced seven stages of societies from savage to civilized Each of the stages was connected to technological achievement Also focused heavily on kinship systems His work influenced later philosophers and social scientists, such as Marx and Engels ...
... Outlined an evolutionary scheme that traced seven stages of societies from savage to civilized Each of the stages was connected to technological achievement Also focused heavily on kinship systems His work influenced later philosophers and social scientists, such as Marx and Engels ...
INTRODUCTION TO ANTHRO
... to the solution of human problems. There are several different types of anthropology including cultural, physical, archaeological and linguistic. ...
... to the solution of human problems. There are several different types of anthropology including cultural, physical, archaeological and linguistic. ...
play
... • From core to peripheral nations • Marketing of exotic others and exotic lands • Selling fantasies, desires, pristine way of life, “authentic cultures” • Transformation of cultural forms influenced by tourism ...
... • From core to peripheral nations • Marketing of exotic others and exotic lands • Selling fantasies, desires, pristine way of life, “authentic cultures” • Transformation of cultural forms influenced by tourism ...
What is linguistic anthropology,
... central; everything the researcher experiences is worthy of attention and may be recorded ...
... central; everything the researcher experiences is worthy of attention and may be recorded ...