Barbarism - Study guides, Class notes & Summaries

Who wrote about negative and positive peace and what is the difference between these two subjects? correct answers Johan Galtung - father of peace studies. Negative peace refers to the absence of violence. When, for example, a ceasefire is enacted, a negative peace will ensue. It is negative because something undesirable stopped happening (e.g. the violence stopped, the oppression ended). Positive peace is filled with positive content such as restoration of relationships, the creation of social ...

RTI WOCS Test 2-3 Study Guide During what years was WWI fought? - World War I - The Great War - was fought between 1914 and 1918. What are the "unintended consequences" of the War of ? - Bolshevist Revolution Cold War Fascism Creation of new nations Nationalism What were the reasons for WWI? - Militarism Alliances Imperialism Nationalism What were the militarism issues leading to WWI? - Germany competing with UK to build battleships; British feared an attack; German...

SOCA 105 WVU EXAM 1 SNYDER ALREADY PASSED Anthropology specific groups of people and the human species as a whole. The "Other" A person or group viewed as very different from oneself. Ethnocentrism The tendency to view one's own culture as best and to judge the behavior and beliefs of culturally different people by one's own standards. (bias) Scientific Racism Attempts to use scientific methods and theories to support beliefs in the inferiority or the superiority of what are...

Anthropology : specific groups of people and the human species as a whole. The "Other" : A person or group viewed as very different from oneself. Ethnocentrism : The tendency to view one's own culture as best and to judge the behavior and beliefs of culturally different people by one's own standards. (bias) Scientific Racism : Attempts to use scientific methods and theories to support beliefs in the inferiority or the superiority of what are held to be the biological races of the ...

Anthropology - ANSWERthe study of humans around the world and through time The "Other" - ANSWERa person defined as different Scientific Racism - ANSWERattempts to use scientific methods and theories to support beliefs in the inferiority or the superiority of what are held to be the biological races of the human species craniology - ANSWERstudy of the skull (Samuel Morton) The Noble Savage - ANSWERsmall scale or early human societies, more humane than the "modern" Europe Evolut...

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Holism - Anthropological perspective that integrates all that is known about human beings and their activities with the result that the whole is understood to be greater than the sum of its parts.. -makes the strange familiar -understanding the whole system of a culture 4 Subfields of Anthropology - -Physical/ Biological Anthropology -Archaeology -Linguistic Anthropology -Cultural Anthropology (* Applied Anthropology is argued as a 5th subfield) Applied Anthropology - -uses...

diction author's choice of words, expressions and style apostrophe a figure of speech in which someone absent or something inhuman is addressed as though present and able to respond synecdoche a figure of speech which represents some whole or group by one of its or their parts or members metonymy substitution of a word for a related word anachronism the placing of characters, persons, events, or things into time frames incongruent with their actual dates parody poking fun at some...

J.B. Lamarck - Proposed first theory of macro-evolution; wrote Philosophie Zoologie; believed in evolution; proposed a mechanism- inheritance of acquired traits Cuvier - Gregor Mendel - an Augustinian monk who experimented with pea plants; discovered individual (discrete) units of hereditary ( genes) Charles Darwin - proposed the theory of natural selection Leslie White - Critique of Boas; championed evolutionist orientation; focus on technology/internal process; "cu...

The four fields of anthropology are ____. - Answer-C. Archaeology, Biological Anthropology, Cultural Anthropology, and Linguistics Karl Marx coined or developed the concept of ____. - Answer-B. Mode of Production Although not used today, Morgan's three stages of development, Savagery, Barbarism, Civilization, were important for their time because ____. - Answer-B. They provided a means to organize societies based on their socioeconomic organization. _____ is the position that the val...