A Science Of Culture
Taylor's theory that all societies had followed a single course of evolution, some more slowly than others.
What is "progression theory"?
Considered a revolutionary in the world of economics, he focused on the idea of a world economy and unemployment.
Who is John Maynard Keynes?
Data about humankind is the definition for this branch of science.
What is statistics?
This towering figure of 20th century physics said, "the eternal mystery of the world is its comprehensibility."
Who is Albert Einstein?
The smallest unit of matter.
What is the atom?
A definition of this was "the acquainting ourselves with the best that has been known and said in the world."
What is culture
He wrote The Wealth of Nations in 1776 and pro[psed representation for America in the British Parliament in proportion to the level of taxation.
Who is Adam Smith?
The French for this is L'homme moyen, a type or standard of man
What is the average man?
A major revisionist of Newtonian forces, this scientist started the "Field" revolution and made major discoveries in the areas of electricity, magnetism, and light.
Who is Michael Faraday?
These were lists of recorded deaths, including the cause of death.
What are "Bills of Mortality"?
The Latin word for "worship"
What is "cultus"
This French economist introduced the idea of economic classes and created a new vocabulary for economics.
Who is Francois Quesnay?
This Belgian mathematician was the founder of statistics, and who discovered that the variations around the mean "oscillated" symmetrically in a pattern of normal distribution.
Who is Adolphe Quetelet?
This mathematician created the mathematical formulas to map lines of force, which appear in all other equations of modern physics and were the basis for Einstein's theory of relativity.
Who is James Clerk Maxwell?
These "ancient matrons" were tasked with finding the cause of death and enforcing quarantine laws, yet were notoriously ignorant of medicine.
Who were "searchers"?
Postulated there is not a single culture for all human beings but "wonderful subtlety with in every culture"
Who is Franz Boaz?
This was the dominating economic theory of antiquity.
What is "just price"?
This country has the oldest continuous periodic census, which started in 1790.
What is the United States?
A self-educated Quaker, he laid the foundations for chemistry through the laws of constant composition, multiple proportions, and the combination of chemical elements in simple rations according to atomic weight.
Who is John Dalton?
Disciples of Quesnay were first known as "les exonomistes", but later called by this name.
What are Physiocrats?
Th founder of modern cultural anthropology
Who is Edward Burnett Taylor
This is the term for unbound accumulation of wealth.
What is "kremastics"?
His was the pioneer of demography and statistics.
Who is John Graunt?
Known as the "laughing philosopher", he preached the gospel of progress and gave atomism its form as philosophy.
Who is Democritus?
The term "perfect liberty" refers to this type of economy.
What is a free competitive economy?