Globalization and Culture Test Preparation
Course Introduction
This course explores the complex relationship between globalization and culture, examining how increased interconnectedness impacts cultural identities, practices, and exchanges across the world. Students will analyze the ways global economic, political, and technological forces contribute to both cultural homogenization and hybridization, considering issues such as migration, global media, language shifts, and transnational movements. Through interdisciplinary perspectives, the course investigates how cultures adapt to, resist, and reshape global influences, fostering critical understanding of contemporary debates around cultural diversity, power dynamics, and identity in a globalized era.
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Cultural Anthropology An Applied Perspective 9th Edition by Gary Ferraro
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Chapter 1: What is Anthropology?
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Q1) A linguistic anthropologist studying the situational use of language is working in the field of:
A) ethnolinguistics.
B) descriptive linguistics.
C) historical linguistics.
D) sociolinguistics.
E) glottochronology.
Answer: D
Q2) Which of the following approaches best exemplifies an extreme emic perspective?
A) cultural materialism
B) functionalism
C) ethnoscience
D) psychological anthropology
E) ethnocentrism
Answer: C
Q3) A degree of ethnocentrism is found among all peoples and cultures.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
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Chapter 2: The Concept of Culture
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Q1) Dr.Edward T.Hall's model of monochronic vs.polychronic cultures is based on the cultural variable of:
A) color.
B) spirituality.
C) time.
D) money.
E) power.
Answer: C
Q2) Which statement about the concept of culture is false?
A) Culture influences biological processes.
B) Culture is learned.
C) Cultures change over time.
D) All cultures include some common features.
E) Most cultural universals are instinctual.
Answer: E
Q3) Conversational distance varies between cultures.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
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Chapter 3: Applied Anthropology
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Q1) The disastrous events at Abu Ghraib prison were caused by anthropologists.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
Q2) Academic (pure,theoretical)anthropology became less popular during the 1950s after WWII.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
Q3) Why did the villagers on Truk oppose the expansion of an airport?
Answer: The expansion would affect their livelihoods as fishermen and would also negatively impact cultural and historical landmarks in the area.
Q4) The anthropologist as trainer adopts what is essentially a teaching role on a project.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
Q5) Why is applied anthropology associated with problem-oriented research?
Answer: The goal is to assist in addressing societal problems.
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Chapter 4: The Growth of Anthropological Theory
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Q1) Although diffusionism was a very interesting theory that contributed to our understanding of change as a result of culture contact,there were many areas for which it was a weak approach.Name at least four questions that the diffusionist approach could not answer.
Q2) In the cultural law of C=ET of Leslie White,the variables are:
A) culture, energy, time.
B) culture, energy, technology.
C) culture, evolution, time.
D) child-rearing, equality, territory.
E) culture, evolution, technology.
Q3) Distinguish between the three major forms of evolutionary thought that Julian Steward proposed: unilinear evolution,universal evolution,and multilinear evolution.
Q4) What are the basic premises of the theory of evolutionism?
Q5) Postmodernists emphasize that ethnographies should be written from several voices.
A)True
B)False
Q6) What three kinds of evolutionary thought did Julian Steward recognize?
Q7) Why did Franz Boas call for a moratorium on theory?
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Chapter 5: Methods in Cultural Anthropology
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Q1) Since "a picture is worth a thousand words," ethnographers always need to document certain features of a culture by taking photographs.
A)True
B)False
Q2) How do qualitative and quantitative methods differ?
Q3) Funding agencies routinely require that the anthropologist produce a research proposal.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Anthropologists collect information on all the relatives (kin)of the informant by: A) mapping.
B) the genealogical method.
C) proxemic analysis.
D) document analysis.
E) census taking.
Q5) Describe and discuss the primary goals of the Jamaica Agroforestry Project (JAP).
Q6) What are the methodological advantages of photography?
Q7) List four techniques for the collection of cultural data.
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Chapter 6: Language and Communication
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Q1) Black English Vernacular is a(n):
A) form of street slang.
B) incorrect form of English.
C) full-fledged linguistic system with its own grammatical structure.
D) primitive language that shows remnants of its past.
E) language that was used in Africa many years ago.
Q2) On what aspect of language do sociolinguists concentrate?
Q3) Doublespeak is a form of code switching.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Sociolinguists:
A) study the structures (phonology and morphology) of a language.
B) focus on how people actually speak in any given social situation.
C) study language change over time.
D) study language families and the relationships between different lexicons.
E) study how non-standardized forms of language are related to other languages.
Q5) Ninety-five percent of the world's people speak fewer than 100 of the world's 6,000 languages.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 7: Subsistence Patterns
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Q1) The time period of the Neolithic Revolution changed the nature of human society.Consider the differences between food-gathering and food-producing societies.Name at least five major differences and defend whether you consider them positive or negative changes for societies.
Q2) The Ju/'hoansi (!Kung San)inhabit:
A) the Gobi desert of inner Asia.
B) the Kalahari Desert of southern Africa.
C) the Ituri forest of the Congo.
D) the Great Plains of the western United States.
E) the Amazon jungle.
Q3) Sedentary ranching and dairy farming is a type of pastoralism.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Which of the following statements is true?
A) A society cannot exceed the carrying capacity of its environment.
B) A society cannot easily increase food production far beyond their carrying capacity.
C) A society can easily exceed its carrying capacity.
D) No environment has a fixed carrying capacity.
E) Societies usually stay far below their carrying capacities.
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Chapter 8: Economics
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Q1) Rules that govern the allocation of resources and how they are used are found in:
A) very few societies.
B) only food-collecting societies.
C) Western societies only.
D) all societies in the world.
E) all food-producing societies.
Q2) Reciprocity refers to an exchange of goods and/or services of:
A) unequal value that occurs at the same moment in time.
B) exactly the same value that occurs over a short period of time.
C) relatively equal value between two parties without the use of money.
D) unequal value between elites and commoners in a state society.
E) relatively equal value between more than two parties that sometimes involves the use of money.
Q3) Globalization has affected almost every aspect of our lives.What are some positive and negative consequences of it?
Q4) What are the major differences between substantivism and formalism in economic theory?
Q5) Compare and contrast the chief with the Big Man.
Q6) What is one of the major negative consequences of globalization?
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Chapter 9: Marriage and the Family
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Q1) What are the advantages and disadvantages of polygyny for women in cultures that permit plural marriage?
Q2) In the majority of cultures of the world,polygyny is:
A) the preferred form of marriage.
B) practiced by the majority of wealthy men in the world.
C) less common than polyandry.
D) considered by anthropologists to be less moral than monogamy.
E) a form of marriage in which the man exerts his domination over the women.
Q3) Ferraro defines family as a social unit characterized by common residence,economic cooperation,and child rearing.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Which statement about polygyny in Africa is false?
A) Polygyny is very rarely practiced today.
B) Some traditional women support it.
C) Men generally view polygyny more positively than women do.
D) Opposition to polygyny today comes from younger, well-educated women.
E) Many traditional African men today are under pressure by Christian churches to give up polygyny.
Q5) What is dowry?
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Chapter 10: Kinship and Descent
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Q1) The Navajo (New Mexico)system of kinship:
A) is based entirely on fictive kin.
B) strictly governs the behavior of members of the same clan.
C) requires people to find marriage partners within their own clan.
D) allows clan members to marry and form extended families.
E) is no different from that of the rest of the United States.
Q2) Kinship is considered the single most important bond in virtually all human societies.Discuss how an individual would be impacted if he or she lost all kinship connections and yet was still required to function within our own society.Where would this person be most challenged and how would his or her life be different than a person who did have intact kinship ties?
Q3) Patrilineal descent was very marked and practiced by the majority of peoples in traditional China.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Distinguish between the vertical and horizontal functions of kinship.
Q5) List and describe the five primary residences rules.
Q6) Contrast consanguineal and affinal kinships ties.
Q7) What four types of kinship groups are based on the unilineal principle?
Q8) Describe and discuss the most common rules of descent.
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Chapter 11: Sex and Gender
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Q1) Among the Maasai:
A) women have extremely high status as cattle herders.
B) women and men have relatively equal status, as both participate equally in subsistence activities.
C) there is a female-centered ideal and the society is markedly pro-female.
D) women are marginalized because they are not cattle herders.
E) both men and women work as farmers, but men's labor is more valued.
Q2) Practical recommendations for maximizing the utility of family planning clinics in Ecuador included:
A) paying women to attend the clinic.
B) prohibiting all conversation during examinations.
C) prohibiting male physicians from the clinics.
D) acting discretely, giving privacy, and allowing women to maintain their modesty during visits to the clinic.
E) allowing women to visit the clinic at night, when no one could see them.
Q3) "Genderlects" represent sexual symmetry in language.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Why are there more stay-at-home dads now than fifty years ago?
Q5) What is meant by the "feminization of poverty?"
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Chapter 12: Social Stratification
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Q1) Name the three types of societies based on levels of social inequality.
Q2) In egalitarian societies,a few individuals will always have more wealth than others. A)True
B)False
Q3) What is ethnicity?
Q4) Compare and contrast achieved and ascribed status.
Q5) Chiefs in a rank society possess great prestige and accumulate large amounts of tribute which:
A) they give away to others.
B) is used for their sons' inheritance.
C) is used for the inheritance of all of their children.
D) they destroy in one large potlatch.
E) they keep for their own use.
Q6) Based on our knowledge of genetics,we know that there are no pure races. A)True
B)False
Q7) Primogeniture is the exclusive right of the eldest son to his father's estate.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 13: Political Organization and Social Control
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Q1) Karl Wittfogel proposed the coercive theory of state formation.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Small-scale societies are less politically integrated than large-scale ones.
A)True
B)False
Q3) In complex societies,what is the primary emphasis of legal systems?
A) punishment
B) restitution to the victim
C) reintegration of offender into society
D) reintegration of the corporate lineage into society
E) demonstration of legal authority
Q4) What are three theories of state formation and who are their major proponents?
Q5) In some state societies today,women hold the majority of leadership positions in the government.
A)True
B)False
Q6) What are the four types of political structure?
Q7) List five formal mechanisms of social control.
Q8) What is the relationship between religion and warfare?
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Chapter 14: Supernatural Beliefs
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Q1) Which statement about religion in the United States is true?
A) Liberals are more religious than conservatives.
B) People under 40 are more religious than people over 40.
C) Blacks are more religious than Whites.
D) New Englanders are more religious than Southerners.
E) Urban dwellers are more religious than rural dwellers.
Q2) Individuals benefit psychologically from religion because it:
A) helps explain the unexplainable.
B) gives them answers based upon scientific authority.
C) provides a rational and logical framework for giving meaning to events and experiences.
D) makes them feel as if their increased stress levels have a function in society.
E) answers all questions regarding their daily lives.
Q3) Which statement about shamanism is false?
A) Shamans are full-time specialists.
B) Shamans are thought to have supernatural powers.
C) Shamans contact spirits while in an altered state of consciousness.
D) Shamans use their powers to heal and tell fortunes of their clients.
E) All contemporary societies operate at the shamanistic level.
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Chapter 15: Art
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Q1) What are the four major concerns of ethnomusicology?
Q2) In more complex societies,state governments:
A) deliberately use art to ensure freedom of expression.
B) always carefully control art to prevent social agitation.
C) frequently repress artistic forms that criticize national symbols.
D) sponsor art for the sake of instilling obedience and maintaining the status quo.
E) subsidize the production of art as a way of calming the social classes.
Q3) Alan Lomax's cross-cultural research on music found:
A) almost no similarities from one society to another.
B) some broad correlations between various aspects of music and a culture's level of subsistence.
C) that music in egalitarian, small-scale societies was essentially similar to music in complex, industrialized societies.
D) that music in small-scale societies had nonrepetitious texts.
E) that music cross-culturally involves precise articulation.
Q4) What negative impact can art have for the artist and the viewer?
Q5) The popularity of Bollywood films is based primarily on their music and dance.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 16: The Modern World Order, Global Challenges, and the
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Q1) The estimated world population was ____________ people in 1500 and ______________ people in 1974.
A) 1 billion; 5 billion
B) 10,000; 1 billion
C) 500,000; 800 million
D) 500 million; 4 billion
E) 2 million; 5 billion
Q2) Thomas Friedman argues that all peoples' welfare will be met if there is a free-market capitalist system.
A)True
B)False
Q3) In recent years scholars have begun seeing that globalization is leading to:
A) a global culture.
B) a more homogeneous world.
C) the redefinition of local cultures.
D) the dissolution of the nation-state.
E) the development of much greater numbers of cultures worldwide.
Q4) Compare and contrast world systems theory and modernization theory.What are the strengths and weaknesses of these two theories?
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