STUDY GUIDE
Anthropology 1000C
Test 2: March 12
This test is worth 20% of your final mark for the course. The test is divided into short answer and multiple
choice sections. Short answer questions will ask you to define concepts, distinguish between concepts, or
provide lists. You may also be asked to give examples of concepts or ideas, or explain why a concept is
important.
Please be familiar with the following concepts/ideas:
Culture
Social Structure
Humans as biosocial/biocultural beings
Functionalism (psychological and structural)
Structuralism
Historical Particularism
Specialist and generalist adaptive strategies
Modernism and postmodernism
Foundations and features of culture
Sapir-Whorf hypothesis
Theories of language as communicative device and as creative/constitutive
Modes of exchange
Capitalism, including:
--four mutations from previous economic forms
--three main features of
--terminology: exchange value, use value, capital, surplus
Mode, means, and relations of production
Race
Ethnicity
Gender
Class
Ascribed and Achieved status
Accommodation and resistance, including:
--forms of resistance
--relationship between accommodation and resistance
Hegemony
Domination
Kin, Relatives and Essential Kin in the Flats
Key features of exchange in the Flats
Reasons why fathers are “absent” in the Flats
Culture of poverty thesis
Functions of poverty