Social Evolutionism
Anthropology’s first systematic ethnological theory.
What is Cultural Evolution?
This anthropological theory compares aspects of a culture similarly to the parts of a living organism.
Functionalism
This theoretical perspective focused on the relations between psychological and cultural forces.
Culture and Personality
Ecological anthropology focuses on the relations between people and _________
the environment
This anthropologist is consider the founder of anthropological structuralism.
Claude Levi-Strauss
This was intended to explain the diversity of peoples around the world in the 1800s.
Cultural Evolution
This British Functionalist focused on these needs of cultures.
Physiological
In general, culture and personality anthropologists would agree that this influences an individual's personality as an adult.
Childhood experiences
This anthropologist was the first to use the term "ecological anthropology."
Julian Steward
Claude Levi-Strauss emphasized that anthropologists should study patterning in this to better understand cultural categories.
human thought
The idea that culture generally develops/evolves in a uniform and progressive manner.
Unilinear social evolution
Radcliffe-Brown introduced this theory.
Structural-functionalism
This anthropologist argued that culture was the result of human choice, not cultural determinism.
Ruth Benedict
This anthropologist believed that cultural evolution is related to energy uses per capita.
Leslie White
Structuralism suggest that the structure of this is the same in all cultures.
human thought processes
This anthropological theory developed out of biology and supported the idea that some cultures of the present were somewhat similar to those in the past.
Comparative Method
Malinowski argued that these responses are related to physiological needs.
psychological
Anthropologist Margaret Mead wrote this book which popularized anthropology.
Coming of Age in Samoa
This anthropologist proposed that certain aspects of culture will develop similarly across cultures under similar environmental conditions.
Julian Steward
This social philosopher greatly influenced structuralism.
Michel Foucault
This early concept supported the idea that the human mind was much the same in all cultures.
Psychic Unity of Mankind
This functionalist anthropologist conducted fieldwork in the Andaman Islands and Western Australia.
A. R. Radcliffe-Brown
This anthropologist focused on gender roles and differences in raising children.
Margaret Mead
According to Julian Steward, this is most related to a culture's subsistence strategy and economy.
culture core
This book provided the foundation for what would become structuralism.
Structuralism and Ecology