Anthropology
This human science studies human societies, cultures and their development.
What is anthropology?
This term refers to the meaning, importance or value that a practice has for a community.
What is significance?
This is a form of research into people, language and culture—not merely “writing about a culture.”
What is ethnography?
This metaphor describes the culturally shaped perspective through which people interpret behaviour.
What are cultural glasses?
These are conscious or unconscious opinions, attitudes, beliefs and biases about language
What are language ideologies?
This branch of anthropology investigates how language reflects and shapes culture and society.
What is linguistic anthropology?
This term describes what a cultural or linguistic practice actually does in a community.
What is function?
An ethnographer spends an extended period taking part in and observing the activities of a community.
What is participant observation?
The same greeting may be considered polite in one community and inappropriate in another because meaning depends on this.
What is cultural context?
Grammar, syntax and phonology are studied when language is viewed in this way.
What is language as a system?
Anthropology belongs to this broad area of knowledge, alongside psychology, economics and political science.
What are the human sciences?
Asking “What does this wedding ritual represent to the participants?” focuses on this concept.
What is significance?
Mark Peterson spoke with Cairene people from different walks of life to investigate ideas about cosmopolitanism.
What are interviews?
Instead of saying “All Arabs do this,” an anthropologist uses words such as “sometimes,” “largely” and “in some communities.” This demonstrates anthropological _____.
What is precision?
This IB assessment uses an unseen extract from a language ethnography and asks students to answer three compulsory questions.
What is Paper 1?
Linguistic anthropology studies the relationship among these three interconnected elements.
What are language, culture and society?
Asking “How does this ritual establish trust between two families?” focuses on this concept.
What is function?
Studying magazines, poems, advertisements or records of speech as cultural evidence uses this research method.
What is textual analysis?
Anthropologists distinguish between urban and rural settings because cultural practices vary across these two dimensions.
What are time and space?
This assessment requires students to compare two studied works or bodies of work in response to one of four prompts.
What is Paper 2?
A researcher investigates what a commonly used sentence reveals about a speaker’s identity, geographical background and relationships. This field provides a broader explanation than grammar alone.
What is linguistic anthropology?
A formal greeting represents respect, but it also establishes the relative status of the speakers. Respect is its _____, while organizing the social relationship is its _____.
What are significance and function?
Name the four ethnographic research methods
What are interviews or records of speech, textual analysis, participant observation and statistical analysis?
When entering a new cultural setting, a person should examine local expectations concerning gender, religion and relationships instead of assuming that their customary greeting is universally “normal.” This demonstrates awareness of these two concepts.
What are culture and perspective?
This internally assessed component uses the student’s language-and-culture diary as the foundation for a personal, research-based investigation.
What is the autoethnography/internal assessment?