Exam 7: Analyzing Sociocultural Systems

How does enculturation influence male and female gender roles? Is there a universal division of labor based on sex? Are gender roles static entities within each society? Are gender roles changing in the United States?

A family is a social group that consists of two or more people related by blood, marriage, or adoption that live together while sharing economic resources and caring for their young.

Anthropologists have found that all societies have inequality in statuses which are arranged in a hierarchy. This hierarchy is known as:

The formalist and substantivist approaches to understanding an economic system are decidedly different. Are these approaches mutually exclusive, or could they be used together to examine the economic system of a society?

Most religious beliefs, whether they are derived from inductive or deductive logic, are always based on strict scientific criteria.

Let us assume that the United States has just invaded Haiti and installed a new government on the island. Will everyone in Haiti consider the new government to be a legitimate one or an illegitimate one? Why or why not?

A major goal of most anthropological studies of religion is to determine the "truth" or "falsity" of particular religious beliefs so that the truth about the supernatural can be discovered.

Anthropologists are interested in understanding how biological, environmental, demographic, economic, social, political, and other cultural variables influence warfare and feuds.

What are the benefits and limitations of conducting cross-cultural research?

A typical consists of two parents and their immediate biological offspring or adopted children.

Is there any difference between a newspaper reporter and an anthropologist reporting on his or her findings in another culture?

Studies of hunter-gatherer groups often include an investigation of the maximum population that a specific environment can support, or what is called the , in order to understand population change and distribution.

Marriage within the same social group or category is , while is marriage between people from different social categories or groups.

Clearly defined norms of a society that provides punishment when violated through the application of formal sanctions by a ruling authority are called:

Ethnologist Leopold Pospisil has suggested that there are four criteria that must be present in order for a norm to be considered a law. Which of the following is not one of these criteria?

If a researcher finds that two variables are correlated, this always means that one of the variables causes the other one.

Do you think that technology is the primary and basic source of sociocultural change? Do values play any role in sociocultural change?