A family relationship based on what a culture considers to be family.
What is kinship?
The social science discipline that examines the development of human species and human cultures throughout the world.
What is anthropology?
A method of study in which a researcher develops and distributes questionnaires to study participants.
What is a survey?
This school of thought believes that cultures are organized by complex rules that are logical and based on binary opposites.
What is structuralism?
The belief that something is true because a person's emotions and logic support it.
What is intuition?
The term that refers to societies who organize their family groups and inheritance practices through their mother's line.
What is matrilineal?
The social science discipline that studies people's feelings, thoughts, and personality development to discover underlying triggers or causes of human behaviour.
What is psychology?
The method of study in which anthropologists participate as a member, living in that community and recording their observations.
What is participant-observation?
This school of thought believes that minorities can participate in the larger society and retain much of their ethnic identity and culture, without having to be assimilated.
What is inclusionism?
The organizations (establishments, laws, practices, and customs) within society that act to shape individuals.
What are institutions?
The practice of acknowledging as kin people who are not biologically related.
What is fictive kinship?
This branch of a social science discipline examines how language is used and how it shapes cultural interactions.
What is linguistic anthropology?
A method of study that involves formal or informal questioning through conversation.
What is an interview?
This school of thought believes that cultures are organized by purpose, to meet the physical or psychological needs of its members.
What is functionalism?
This is a voluntary process of learning that occurs through reinforcement using rewards and punishments.
What is operant-conditioning?
The term for societies that organize their family groups and practices of inheritance through the father's line.
What is patrilineal?
The discipline of social science that looks at the development and functions of a human society to understand social norms and deviances.
What is sociology?
A method of study in which a variable is manipulated to observe human behaviour and compare the findings to a control group.
What is an experiment?
This school of thought views the discipline through the lens of power inequity, economic inequity and exploitation (class struggles).
What is neo-marxism?
This term refers to the beliefs and values used to guide an individual's decisions and actions.
What is a worldview?
These are three ways human cultures define the concept of kinship.
What is mating (marriage), birth (descent), and nurturance (adoption)?
This branch of a social science discipline is interested in genetic inheritance, fossil records of human evolution and adaptability, and primatology.
What is physical anthropology?
A method in which a researcher will examine data collected for another purpose and apply this data to his/her investigation.
What is secondary analysis?
This school of thought believes that society works best when its members have a shared set of norms and values; it is interested in explaining how a society meets the needs of its members.
What is structural-functionalism?
This concept states that humans tend to see things in terms of two forces that are opposite to each other.
What is the principle of "binary opposites"?