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15 Cards in this Set
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positivism |
a system of philosophy basing knowledge solely on data of sense of experience based solely on scientific phenomena |
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lower savagery |
rudimentary development of language, fruit and nuts, no ethnographic record |
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middle savagery |
invention of fire, fishing, greater portion of earth's surface |
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upper savagery |
bow and arrow, increased efficiency |
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lower barbarism |
cultivation, pottery, settled life |
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middle barbarism |
animal domestication, developed village life |
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upper barbarism |
iron smelting, chiefs and chiefdoms |
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civilization |
phonetic alphabet, urban life, polytheistic/monotheistic religion |
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phenomenological approach |
holistic and in terms of subjects own category of meaning |
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cultural particularism |
each culture is unique made up of unprecedented combination of elements |
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Boaz superorganic |
the product ofcollective or group life; notreducible to individual rationality
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Boaz unconscious |
a filter through which reality is perceived,but which is not itself the object of attention
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boaz adaptive |
culture is,ultimately adaptive(but, inpractice, relatively little attention to macro- adaptation)
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British structuralism |
structures are observed regularities in actual behavior; empirical things out there in the world [look for positive or negative sanctions that support them] |
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French Levi Strauss |
structures exist in the human mind; are mental things which exist first in human agreement before they are enacted in the outside world Rationalist, deductive |
