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'Ology 101
Research Methods
Schools of Thought
Terms 101
100

A family relationship based on what a culture considers to be family.

What is kinship?

100

The social science discipline that examines the development of human species and human cultures throughout the world.

What is anthropology? 

100

A method of study in which a researcher develops and distributes questionnaires to study participants.

What is a survey?

100

This school of thought believes that cultures are organized by complex rules that are logical and based on binary opposites. 

What is structuralism?

100

The belief that something is true because a person's emotions and logic support it. 

What is intuition? 

200

The term that refers to societies who organize their family groups and inheritance practices through their mother's line. 

What is matrilineal?

200

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?

200

The method of study in which anthropologists participate as a member, living in that community and recording their observations. 

What is participant-observation?

200

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?

200

The organizations (establishments, laws, practices, and customs) within society that act to shape individuals.

What are institutions? 

300

The practice of acknowledging as kin people who are not biologically related. 

What is fictive kinship?

300

This branch of a social science discipline examines how language is used and how it shapes cultural interactions. 

What is linguistic anthropology? 

300

A method of study that involves formal or informal questioning through conversation. 

What is an interview?

300

This school of thought believes that cultures are organized by purpose, to meet the physical or psychological needs of its members.

What is functionalism?

300

This is a voluntary process of learning that occurs through reinforcement using rewards and punishments.

What is operant-conditioning?

400

The term for societies that organize their family groups and practices of inheritance through the father's line.

What is patrilineal? 

400

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? 

400

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? 

400

This school of thought views the discipline through the lens of  power inequity, economic inequity and exploitation (class struggles). 

What is neo-marxism?

400

This term refers to the beliefs and values used to guide an individual's decisions and actions. 

What is a worldview?

500

These are three ways human cultures define the concept of kinship. 

What is mating (marriage), birth (descent), and nurturance (adoption)?

500

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?

500

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? 

500

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?

500

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"?

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