Human Behavior
The study of human similarities and differences
What is anthropology
The four aspects of culture
What are Symbolic, Shared, Learned, and Adaptive?
The process by which members of a society pass on culture to new generations
What is enculturation?
The side-by-side study of cultural systems to demonstrate similarity and difference
What is the comparative perspective?
The unpleasant, even traumatic feeling people get when the rules and understandings by which they have organized their lives do not apply.
What is culture shock?
A learned system of meanings through which people orient themselves in the world so they can act in it
What is culture?
The acquisition of cultural knowledge from an institution
What is formal learning
All aspects of human society are interconnected, and these interconnections can be discovered and described
What is the holistic perspective?
Caused by contact between people operating according to different common senses
What is cultural misunderstanding?
Something that stands for something else to someone in some respect, arbitrary between cultures
What is a symbol?
The acquisition of cultural knowledge from watching, listening, and participating in everyday activities
What is informal learning?
The two aspects of empirical anthropological study
What are fieldwork and participant observation?
A set of unstated assumptions shared with others in a community that are relied upon on to make sense of the world.
What is common sense?
Institutions and processes that teach and reinforce common beliefs, values, orientations, and models for Action among a community
What is the generation of similarity?
Of bodies and unconscious behaviors through enculturation
What is embodiment?
How communities benefited from or were harmed by their particular adaptations
What is the evolutionary perspective?
The flow of symbols across the global landscape, furthered by transnational migration, new information technology, and Global markets
What are Intercultural relations?
Organizations with the power to regulate behavior and reward or punish behaviors
What is the organization of difference?
The three levels of culture
What are cultural practices, cultural logics, and worldview?
The three aspects of the relativistic perspective
What are methodological, theoretical, and philosophical?