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...

Jamala has always wanted to have a child, but ze knows that hor pre-existing high blood pressure (chronic hypertension) would require extreme monitoring during pregnancy. Such monitoring would require hir to take time off from hir minimum-wage job, but ze cannot afford the loss of income, particularly since ze is currently uninsured. When Jamala unintentionally becomes pregnant, ze chooses to terminate the pregnancy because ze can't afford to miss work and does not make enough income to pay for...

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...

Sheriff correct answers The chief law enforcement officer of a county, normally elected and frequently operating the jail as well as law enforcement functions; act as officer of the court, summon juries, and enforce civil judgements; basic source of rural crime control Constable correct answers In England, favored noblemen who were forerunners of modern day US criminal justice functionaries; largely disappearing in the US by the 70s; collected taxes, supervised highways, and served as magistr...

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...

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...

Rapport correct answer: a good, friendly working relationship based on personal contact with their hosts Participant Observation correct answer: we take part in community life as we study it Cultural Consultants correct answer: people who teach an ethnographer about their culture Key Cultural Consultants correct answer: experts on a particular aspect of local life Life History correct answer: of a key consultant; a personal portrait of someone's life in a culture Etic correc...