Anthropology Vocabulary 3

Which term best describes a division of a single traditional role into two more roles, each with a single function:

Which term best describes a revitalization movement from within, directed primarily at the ideological system and social structure?

Which term best describes the spread of customs or practices from one culture to another?

What term best describes the blending of indigenous and foreign traits to form a new system?

Which term best describes a chance discovery of a new principle?

Which term best describes major culture changes that people are forced to make and that result from intensive contract between societies?

Which term best describes cultural elements that oppose forces for differentiation?

Which term best describes a deliberate attempt to construct a more satisfactory culture by rapid acceptance of multiple innovations?

Which term best describes a change in which a practice, skill, or belief ceases, with or without replacement?

Which term best describes something new that comes from the deliberate application of known principles?

Which term best describes extermination of one people by another?

Which term best describes the use of anthropology to solve practical problems, often for a specific client?

Which term best describes the process by which traditional or developing societies acquire characteristics of Western industrialization societies?

Which term best describes a group not based on age, kinship, marriage, territory, or rank?

Which term best describes a society in which the number of valued positions is equal to the number of people capable of filling them?

Which term best describes a set of families and individuals who enjoy nearly equal prestige?

Which term best describes a kind of social class in which membership is determined at birth and remains fixed for life?

Which term best describes a category of people based on age?

Which term best describes a group of people initiated into an age grade at the same time?

Which term permits a great deal of social mobility?

Which term best describes the ability to change one's class position?

Which term best describes division of society into groups with unequal sharing of resources, prestige and influence?

Which term best describes what people say about others in their own society?

Which term best describes an activity or possession indicative of a given social class?Select one: