Cultural Anthropology Vocabulary Exam Questions and Correct Answers Latest update 2024
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Cultural Anthropology Vocabulary Exam Questions and Correct Answers Latest update 2024
culture - Answers A system of knowledge, beliefs, patterns of behavior, artifacts, and institutions that are created, learned, and shared by a group of people.
enculturation - Answers The process of learning cu...
Cultural Anthropology Vocabulary Exam Questions and Correct Answers Latest update 2024
culture - Answers A system of knowledge, beliefs, patterns of behavior, artifacts, and institutions that
are created, learned, and shared by a group of people.
enculturation - Answers The process of learning culture.
norms - Answers Ideas or rules about how people should behave in particular situations or toward
certain other people.
values - Answers Fundamental beliefs about what is important true, or beautiful, and what makes a
good life.
symbol - Answers Anything that signifies something else.
mental maps of reality - Answers Cultural classifications of what kinds of people and things exist, and the
assignment of meaning to those classifications.
cultural relativism - Answers Understanding a group's beliefs and practices within their own cultural
context
gender studies - Answers Research into the cultural construction of masculinity and femininity across
cultures as flexible, complex, and historically and culturally constructed categories.
sex - Answers The observable physical differences between M and F, especially biological expressions
related to human reproduction.
gender - Answers The expectations of thought and behavior that each culture assigns to people of
different sexes.
sexual dimorphism - Answers The phenotypic differences between males and females of the same
species.
cultural construction of gender - Answers The ways humans learn to behave as a man or woman and to
recognize behaviors as masculine or feminine within their cultural context.
gender performance - Answers The way gender identity is expressed through action.
intersexual - Answers An individual who is born with a combination of male and female genitalia,
gonads, and/or chromosomes.
transgender - Answers A gender identity or performance that does not fit with cultural norms related to
one's assigned sex at birth.
gender stratification - Answers An unequal distribution of power and access to a group's resources,
opportunities, rights, and privileges based on gender.
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