Question 1

Anthropology may aid in the progress of education by helping educators avoid all of the following EXCEPT

Accepted Answer

A)  indiscriminate assignment of nonnative English speakers to the same classrooms as children with "behavior problems." 
B)  tolerance of ethnic diversity. 
C)  incorrect application of labels such as "learning impaired." 
D)  sociolinguistic discrimination. 
E)  ethnic stereotyping. 
A)  indiscriminate assignment of nonnative English speakers to the same classrooms as children with "behavior problems." 
B)  tolerance of ethnic diversity. 
C)  incorrect application of labels such as "learning impaired." 
D)  sociolinguistic discrimination. 
E)  ethnic stereotyping. B

Question 2

Which of the following is a distinguishing characteristic of the work that applied anthropologists do?

Accepted Answer

A)  They enter the affected communities and talk with people. 
B)  They gather government statistics. 
C)  They consult project managers. 
D)  They consult government officials and other experts. 
E)  They promote development. 
A)  They enter the affected communities and talk with people. 
B)  They gather government statistics. 
C)  They consult project managers. 
D)  They consult government officials and other experts. 
E)  They promote development. A

Question 3

Which of the following is NOT a valid criticism of many economic development projects?

Accepted Answer

A)  They often pay more attention to the physical features than to the social features of the project's setting. 
B)  Project planners have no real interest in helping communities. 
C)  Project personnel too rarely visit and talk with the people affected by the project. 
D)  The planners tend to overlook cultural diversity, especially in less developed countries. 
E)  People who know little about the area affected by the project often have done most or all of its planning, execution, and evaluation. 
A)  They often pay more attention to the physical features than to the social features of the project's setting. 
B)  Project planners have no real interest in helping communities. 
C)  Project personnel too rarely visit and talk with the people affected by the project. 
D)  The planners tend to overlook cultural diversity, especially in less developed countries. 
E)  People who know little about the area affected by the project often have done most or all of its planning, execution, and evaluation. B

Question 4

Why is ethnography one of the most valuable and distinctive tools of the applied anthropologist?

Accepted Answer

A)  It is valuable insider's data that can be routinely sold to multinational corporations and state agencies without the consent of the people studied. 
B)  It provides a firsthand account of the day-to-day issues and challenges that the members of a given community face, as well as a sense of how those people think about and react to these issues. 
C)  It produces a statistically unbiased summary of human response to set stimuli. 
D)  It is among the most economical and time-efficient tools that exist in the social sciences. 
E)  It can be produced without leaving the comfort of the anthropologist's office. 
A)  It is valuable insider's data that can be routinely sold to multinational corporations and state agencies without the consent of the people studied. 
B)  It provides a firsthand account of the day-to-day issues and challenges that the members of a given community face, as well as a sense of how those people think about and react to these issues. 
C)  It produces a statistically unbiased summary of human response to set stimuli. 
D)  It is among the most economical and time-efficient tools that exist in the social sciences. 
E)  It can be produced without leaving the comfort of the anthropologist's office.

Question 5

Sociolinguists and cultural anthropologists studying Puerto Rican communities in the Midwestern United States found that Puerto Rican parents valued education more than non-Hispanics.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 6

Identify government, international, and private organizations that concern themselves with socioeconomic change abroad and hire anthropologists to help meet their goals. Review their mission statements. Do they make reference to the dangers of underdifferentiation or overinnovation?

Accepted Answer

There are several organizations that con

Question 7

How might a premedical student apply some of the knowledge learned through anthropology as a physician? What is the value of studying the curing and belief systems of patients' ethnic groups?

Accepted Answer

As a premedical student, applying knowle

Question 8

In his comparison of rural versus urban communities, Robert Redfield found that cultural innovations spread from urban areas to rural ones.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 9

Which of the following is NOT a feature of urban life?

Accepted Answer

A)  dispersed settlements 
B)  high population density 
C)  social heterogeneity 
D)  economic differentiation 
E)  geographic mobility 
A)  dispersed settlements 
B)  high population density 
C)  social heterogeneity 
D)  economic differentiation 
E)  geographic mobility

Question 10

What is the postwar baby boom of the late 1940s and 1950s responsible for?

Accepted Answer

A)  It fueled the general expansion of the U.S. educational system, including academic anthropology. 
B)  It promoted renewed interest in applied anthropology during the 1950s and 1960s. 
C)  It brought anthropology into most high school curricula. 
D)  It produced a new interest in ethnic diversity. 
E)  It worked to shrink the world system. 
A)  It fueled the general expansion of the U.S. educational system, including academic anthropology. 
B)  It promoted renewed interest in applied anthropology during the 1950s and 1960s. 
C)  It brought anthropology into most high school curricula. 
D)  It produced a new interest in ethnic diversity. 
E)  It worked to shrink the world system.

Question 11

All of the following are proper roles for applied anthropologists EXCEPT

Accepted Answer

A)  identifying needs for change that local people perceive. 
B)  working with people to design culturally appropriate and socially sensitive change. 
C)  placing the cultural values of the local people above everybody else's cultural values. 
D)  protecting local people from harmful policies and projects that might threaten them. 
E)  working as participant observers, taking part in the events they study in order to understand local thought and behavior. 
A)  identifying needs for change that local people perceive. 
B)  working with people to design culturally appropriate and socially sensitive change. 
C)  placing the cultural values of the local people above everybody else's cultural values. 
D)  protecting local people from harmful policies and projects that might threaten them. 
E)  working as participant observers, taking part in the events they study in order to understand local thought and behavior.

Question 12

Discuss the major advantages and disadvantages of scientific and traditional medicine, being careful to distinguish between scientific medicine and Western medicine.

Accepted Answer

Scientific medicine, also known as evide

Question 13

When nations become more tied to the world economy, indigenous forms of social organization inevitably break down into nuclear family organization, impersonality, and alienation.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 14

Non-Western medicine does not maintain a sharp distinction between biological and psychological illnesses.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 15

Strictly speaking, medical anthropology is an applied field within anthropology.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 16

There is considerable debate today over whether or not governments should require schools to provide bilingual education for students, and if so, to what extent this should be carried out. Pretend that you are an anthropologist who has been asked to provide guidance on this issue to a school board in a bilingual community. What can you suggest about the nature of ethnicity, language, and enculturation that will help educators address their challenges?

Accepted Answer

As an anthropologist, I would suggest th

Question 17

Fortunately for applied anthropologists eager to do effective international work, all governments are genuinely and realistically committed to improving the lives of their citizens.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 18

What is a disease?

Accepted Answer

A)  a health problem as it is experienced by the one affected 
B)  an artificial product of biomedicine 
C)  a consequence of a foraging lifestyle 
D)  an unnatural state of health 
E)  a scientifically identified health threat 
A)  a health problem as it is experienced by the one affected 
B)  an artificial product of biomedicine 
C)  a consequence of a foraging lifestyle 
D)  an unnatural state of health 
E)  a scientifically identified health threat

Question 19

In an example of applied anthropology's contribution to improving education, this chapter describes a study of Puerto Rican seventh graders in a Midwestern U.S. urban school (Hill-Burnett, 1978). What did anthropologists discover in this study?

Accepted Answer

A)  Puerto Rican students came from a background that placed less value on education than did that of white students. 
B)  The parents of Puerto Rican students did not value achievement. 
C)  The Puerto Rican subjects benefited from the English as a foreign language program. 
D)  Puerto Ricans do not benefit from bilingual education. 
E)  The Puerto Rican students' education was being affected by their teachers' misconceptions. 
A)  Puerto Rican students came from a background that placed less value on education than did that of white students. 
B)  The parents of Puerto Rican students did not value achievement. 
C)  The Puerto Rican subjects benefited from the English as a foreign language program. 
D)  Puerto Ricans do not benefit from bilingual education. 
E)  The Puerto Rican students' education was being affected by their teachers' misconceptions.

Question 20

Scientific medicine is not the same thing as Western medicine. Despite advances in technology, genomics, molecular biology, pathology, surgery, diagnostics, and applications, many Western medical procedures have little justification in logic or fact.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Exam 3: Applying Anthropology

Anthropology may aid in the progress of education by helping educators avoid all of the following EXCEPT

Which of the following is a distinguishing characteristic of the work that applied anthropologists do?

Which of the following is NOT a valid criticism of many economic development projects?

Why is ethnography one of the most valuable and distinctive tools of the applied anthropologist?

Sociolinguists and cultural anthropologists studying Puerto Rican communities in the Midwestern United States found that Puerto Rican parents valued education more than non-Hispanics.

Identify government, international, and private organizations that concern themselves with socioeconomic change abroad and hire anthropologists to help meet their goals. Review their mission statements. Do they make reference to the dangers of underdifferentiation or overinnovation?

How might a premedical student apply some of the knowledge learned through anthropology as a physician? What is the value of studying the curing and belief systems of patients' ethnic groups?

In his comparison of rural versus urban communities, Robert Redfield found that cultural innovations spread from urban areas to rural ones.

Which of the following is NOT a feature of urban life?

What is the postwar baby boom of the late 1940s and 1950s responsible for?

All of the following are proper roles for applied anthropologists EXCEPT

Discuss the major advantages and disadvantages of scientific and traditional medicine, being careful to distinguish between scientific medicine and Western medicine.

When nations become more tied to the world economy, indigenous forms of social organization inevitably break down into nuclear family organization, impersonality, and alienation.

Non-Western medicine does not maintain a sharp distinction between biological and psychological illnesses.

Strictly speaking, medical anthropology is an applied field within anthropology.

Fortunately for applied anthropologists eager to do effective international work, all governments are genuinely and realistically committed to improving the lives of their citizens.

What is a disease?

In an example of applied anthropology's contribution to improving education, this chapter describes a study of Puerto Rican seventh graders in a Midwestern U.S. urban school (Hill-Burnett, 1978). What did anthropologists discover in this study?

Scientific medicine is not the same thing as Western medicine. Despite advances in technology, genomics, molecular biology, pathology, surgery, diagnostics, and applications, many Western medical procedures have little justification in logic or fact.

What Is Anthropology

Culture

Doing Archaeology and Biological Anthropology

Evolution and Genetics

Human Variation and Adaptation

The Primates

Early Hominins

Archaic Homo

The Origin and Spread of Modern Humans

The First Farmers

The First Cities and States

Method and Theory in Cultural Anthropology

Language and Communication

Ethnicity and Race

Making a Living

Political Systems

Gender

Families, Kinship, and Descent

Marriage

Religion

Arts, Media, and Sports

The World System and Colonialism

Anthropologys Role in a Globalizing World

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