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35 Cards in this Set
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4 things boas' students had in common
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culture should be considered in patterns, cultural relativism, causal priority of culture, culture is "personality writ large"
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cultural relativism
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individuals should be interpreted in terms of their culture
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sapir's approach
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influence of language on ways people think
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benedict's approach
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patterning of culture at individual level
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2 classical cultural evolutionists
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tylor and morgan
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how did culture originate to CCEs
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originated independently more than once because of similarities in the workings of the human mind
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cultural evolution to CCEs
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diffusion involved in cultural evolution from savagery to civilization
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aspects of culture of interest to CCEs
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all
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stages of cultural evolution to CCEs
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7 stages, primitive people at earlier stages
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2 parts of functionalism
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explain things in terms of beneficial consequences, inequality is functional for society
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semiotic researchers
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linger and geertz
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semiotic ANP studies
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role of thought/symbols in society
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what guides action to semiotic ANPs?
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symbols
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culture to semiotic ANPs
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system of ideas expressed symbolically through which people communicate about life
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semiotic ANPs interpret symbols through...
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thick descriptions
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to semiotic ANPs, culture functions to...
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...expose meanings on world and make it understnadable
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sapir and language
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language shapes culture and how person understand and behaves in world
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boas and language
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language is very subjective, he catalogued grammatical categories across language
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geertz and language
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language is one of only windows into emic point of view
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to geertz, what is culture embodied in?
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communicated symbols
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sapir's definition of culture
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culture is language
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boas' definition of culture
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culture is window into universal working of human mind
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benedict's definition of culture
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culture is patterns
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mead's definition of culture
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culture is personality
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is "thick description" just another version of "historical particularism?"
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No
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similarities between TD and HP
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in both cases, you're being increasingly precise
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historical particularism
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Trying to locate origins of different elements of culture
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thick description
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Trying to locate meanings circulating within particular context by being very precise
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HP explanation requires...
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...understanding of how historical processes produce the cultural pattern
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according to linger, has culture theory lost its minds?
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yes
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conduit model
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English speakers think that symbols are packages of meanings transmitted from sender to receiver, when they really have to be processed by sender (intended meaning) and receiver (message received)
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in conduit model, ___ is important
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human mind
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Linger says that meanings...
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..are not inherent to a symbol, it's important to consider communicative events
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Linger says that ANPs should...
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locate meanings in minds instead of in symbols
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how did Freud explain the relationship between the individual and society?
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individual balances between drive for independence and society's demand for conformity
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