1. Anthropology Essential Ideas/Terms

2.  1. Despite strong individual differences, members of a society share a common culture.  2. The size of the group within culture is shared can vary from a few to millions.  3. Culture is LEARNED.  4. Anthropologists seek to discover the customs and ranges of acceptable behavior that constitute culture.  5. Every society develops a series of ideal cultural patterns the represent what MOST members believe to be correct behavior.

3.  6. Culture acts as a restraint on individual behavior-keeping individuals “in line”.  7. Culture is generally adaptive to the conditions of its physical and social environment.  8. Culture traits may be neutral, positive or negative.  9. Culture is always changing.  10. Each generation adds to the collective culture.

4.  Anthropology, Archaeology, Culture, Ethnology, Human Variation, Paleoanthropology, Linguistics, Prehistory, Cultural Anthropology, Physical Anthropology

5.  Describing the ability to react to change; in a network, adaptability allows the network to function despite changes in the environment

6.  the principle that an individual human's beliefs and activities should be understood in terms of his or her own culture

7.  the knowledge and values shared by a society  a set of learned beliefs, values and behaviors the way of life shared by the members of a society.

8.  centered on a specific ethnic group, usually one's own

9.  belief in the superiority of one's own ethnic group

10.  Coping or responding in a damaging way, such as a maladaptive response to fear of speaking by always avoiding speaking situations

11.  A culturally established rule prescribing appropriate social behavior

12.  sample in which every element in the population has an equal chance of being selected

13.  an extended social group having a distinctive cultural and economic organization

14.  a social group within a national culture that has distinctive patterns of behavior and beliefs