Anthropologist/Ethnographer
Her most important contribution to our understanding of gender is that cultural differences rather than biology determined gender differences. Additionally, she found that gender role expectations in the United States were not necessarily the same as gender role expectations in other civilizations.
Who is Margaret Mead?
The position a person has within a social system—this may be ascribed (beyond an individual’s control) or achieved (acquired on the basis of merit).
What is status?
The hybridization or amalgamation of two or more cultural traditions.
What is syncretism?
This describes the tools that we use to assist our interactions in society. They can be referred to as innovation and can initiate changes in culture and society.
What is technology?
A set of convictions, values and viewpoints regarded as “the truth” and shared by members of a social group. These are underpinned and supported by known cultural experience.
What is Belief & Knowledge?
His most significant contribution to anthropology is the theory of cultural relativism.
Who is Franz Boas?
A social group that exists and interacts in an online environment.
What is a virtual community?
Anthropologists divide human health systems into these two categories.
What are biomedical and biopsychosocial models?
Participants in a rite of passage or ritual are temporarily literally and symbolically marginalized from their community. Status becomes ambiguous until they re-join their community and adopt their new status.
What is liminality?
Refers to organized systems of symbols, ideas, explanations, beliefs and material production that humans create and manipulate in the course of their daily lives. This includes the customs by which humans organize their physical world and maintain their social structure.
What is Culture?
She was "Born and raised in the United States" and her ancestry "places me in the position of an “in-between entity” in terms of being identified as of two nationalities at the same time."
Who is Reena Patel?
The process through which a person learns to become an accepted member of society via agents such as family, peers, media.
What is socialization?
Refers to cultural or “folk” models of subjectivity, particularly as applied to the interpretation of social action. Cultures vary in the conceptual explanation and sociocultural importance of concepts such as anger or love.
What is ethnopsychology?
The cultural or political dominance of one social group over others; cultural processes through which the ruling classes maintain their power.
What is hegemony?
This can refer either to the individual’s private and personal view of the self—this is sometimes referred to as the “moi”—or the view of an individual in the eyes of the social group. It may also refer to a group.
What is Identity?
In his own words: I'm a medical and cultural anthropologist. I've conducted ethnographic fieldwork in urban Brazil and in the United States. My research areas are in health and international development, mental health, plastic surgery and beauty, and the anthropology of the military.
Who is Alexander Edmonds?
Pierre Bourdieu holds that socialized norms guide people’s behaviour and thinking. These become lasting tendencies to think, feel and act in certain ways in particular social situations.
What is habitus?
The transformation of goods and services, as well as concepts that normally may not be considered goods, into something of value.
What is commodification?
The efforts of individuals as workers in a capitalist context is considered a factor of production, along with land and capital, and is ascribed a value.
What is labor?
Objects, resources and belongings have cultural meaning, described by Arjun Appadurai as “the social life of things”, and are embedded with all kinds of social relations and practices.
What is Materiality?
He is "A proponent of “public anthropology," he brings critical political economic social science theory to bear on urgent social problems to advance theoretical and practical understandings of the interface between structural vulnerability, the social determinants of health and power."
Who is Philippe Bourgois?
The failure of society to provide certain individuals and groups with those rights and benefits normally available to its members.
What is exclusion?
This is the capacity of human beings to act in meaningful ways that affect their own lives and those of others. It may be constrained by class, gender, religion and social and cultural factors. This term implies that individuals have the capacity to create, change and influence events.
What is agency?
This refers to more economically developed societies providing assistance and resources to less economically developed societies, either directly through bilateral aid or indirectly via other agencies.
What is development?
Refers to the way in which humans organize themselves in groups and networks. It is created and sustained by social relationships among persons and groups.
What is Society?