Deck 5: Globalization and Culture: Understanding Global Interconnections

Question 1

Globalization is the

A) idea that cultural characteristics result from internal historical dynamism.
B) process of relationships being limited to those within nation-state boundaries.
C) field that studies the cultural legacies of colonialism and imperialism.
D) widening scale of cross-cultural interactions caused by the rapid movement of money, people, goods, images, and ideas within nations and across national boundaries.

Answer 1

D

Question 2

Rapid increases in the scale and amount of communication

A) are relatively even throughout the world.
B) include narrow use of computers and cell phones.
C) mean that people in remote places can be in contact with people all over the world.
D) level socioeconomic inequalities around the world.

Answer 2

C

Question 3

Eric Wolf encouraged anthropologists to consider what in their field studies?

A) Language
B) Economics
C) History
D) Sexuality

Answer 3

C

Question 4

Push-pull factors

A) describe the factors that contribute the elevation of tides worldwide.
B) explain why colonists adventured to the new world.
C) provide the foundation for determining the difference between core and periphery nations.
D) describe the factors that "push" people to migrate from their homes and that "pull" them to host countries.

Question 5

Some social networks are so spatially disbursed that migrants participate a community that spans multiple countries, referred to as a

A) Postcolonialism
B) Globalization
C) Transnational community
D) Hybridization

Question 6

Hybridization is about

A) maintaining distinct ethnic boundaries.
B) technological inequality.
C) defining a direction for change.
D) cultural mixing.

Question 7

The process of promoting one culture over others, through formal policy or less formal means, is referred to as

A) Coca-Colonization.
B) cultural relativism.
C) localization.
D) cultural imperialism.

Question 8

Today, anthropologists assert that

A) it is impossible to make sense of local cultural realities without understanding broader political, economic, and social conditions.
B) we can understand "villages" on their own terms without understanding broader forces such as economics.
C) the idea of community is no longer relevant because of globalization.
D) the ethnographic research method is no longer valid.

Question 9

The processes of capital accumulation and the expansion of European colonialism disrupted many societies.

Question 10

People in the periphery responded passively to capitalist expansion.

Question 11

Localization is the creation and assertion of highly particular, place-based identities and communities.

Question 12

A limitation of convergence theories is that they underestimate variability and plasticity as key features of human culture and evolutionary history.

Question 13

Multi-sited ethnography is a strategy of following connections, associations, and putative relationships from place to place

Question 14

Multi-sited fieldwork has been productive for studying transnational phenomena like environmentalism and other social movements, the media, certain religious societies whose membership extends across the borders of many countries, and the spread of science and technology.

Question 15

The recent rise of autonomy movements among Hawaiian separatists and Zapatistas in Mexico are examples of

A) globalization.
B) immigration.
C) localization.
D) migration.

Question 16

Which of the following best describes the methodology of multi-sited ethnography?

A) Analytical
B) Comparative
C) Genealogical
D) Local

Question 17

Cultural diversity persists in the world because cultures have been isolated from each other for so long but that diversity is bound to disappear as cultures intermingle more.

Question 18

A key marker of development anthropology's success is when local perspectives and voices are paid attention to in development projects.

Question 19

What are the primary strengths of world systems theory? Give an example of a project in which you might employ it.

Question 20

Do you think an ethnographer could employ a multi-sited approach in a project studying Walmart's cultural influence inside and outside the United States. If not, why not? If yes, what field sites would you study?

Question 21

Describe how you would apply the theory of McDonaldization to explain how airlines work in the United States.

Question 22

For what kinds of research projects is multi-sited ethnography useful and not useful? In your answer give at least one example for each.

Question 23

Is hybridization occurring in American life? If not, why? If so, give an example and use the discussion of hybridization from the book to make your case.

Question 24

Is the diffusionist perspective of Boas and his students useful in anthropology today?

Question 25

What elements of social life are affected by globalization?

Question 26

Why is development an uneven process?

Question 27

How and why do people participate in global processes and local communities simultaneously? Give some examples to illustrate your point.

Question 28

How do the findings and theories of anthropologists of globalization affect your understanding of culture?