Exam 4: The Growth of Anthropological Theory

What is the difference between an inductive and a deductive theory? Use examples from anthropological theoretical schools in order to illustrate your points.

Franz Boas argued that the discipline of anthropology needed:

Interpretive anthropology is an approach headed up by Ward Goodenough.

The theoretical analysis of interaction between culture and environment that argued that particular cultures evolved independently of others is called:

What is the task of an ethnoscientist?

In the cultural law of C=ET of Leslie White,the variables are:

Ethnoscience attempts to describe a culture as it is perceived and categorized by the ethnographer.

Ethnoscience,like French structuralism,does all of the following except:

Structural Functionalism is a theory that focuses on social stratification.

American Historicism is a deductive theoretical approach.