9 KEY CONCEPTS - anthro

belief and knowledge

• seen as truths

• dependent on specific group

• values

symbolism

• significance people attach to objects, actions, and processes

• unique to specific cultures and communities

society

• how humans organize themself

• people that have things in comon

• sustained by power dynamics

• social relationships

social relationships

• any relationship between 2 or more people

• within or between groups

• voluntary or involuntary

power

• influence that a person or group has

• manipulation and ability to control others and/or resources

• essential feature of social relationships

identity

• how someone views theirself

• how others view someone else

culture

• adaptable customs

• represented by

  • symbols

  • ideas

  • beliefs

  • materials

• humans incorporate not daily life

change

• alteration/transformation of social/cultural elements

• causes could be

  • globalization

  • internal dynamics

  • result of contact

materiality

• objects, resources, belongings

• have cultural meaning

Community

• group of people with common interests, common social structure, common ecology

ethnicity

• social group

• shared cultural identity

race

• socially constructed identification

• based on shared culture, physical characteristics, ancestry, historical affiliation

family

• relatedness/connection of people

• kinship network

• domestic group/household

globalization

• increasing global connections in culture, economy, social life

• transmission of ideas, meanings, values

• intensify social relations

ideology

• social system/moral ideas of a group of people

• commitment to central values

kinship

• web/pattern of relationships

• connects people through marriage/descent

• any other social connections

nation-state

• geographical political area

• geopolitical entity

• nation is cultural

reproduction

• transmission of existing cultural values/norms/ other aspects of society

• generation to generation

personhood

• “self”

• culturally constructed concept of individual human being

socialization

• person learns to become accepted member of society by family, media, peers

enculturation

• gradual acquisition of characteristics/norms of a group/culture

• transmission of culture from one group to another

acculturation

• contact with another culture resulting in cultural change