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Anthropology and Social Change
Anthropologists regard CULTURES, the focus of their studies as constantly changing organisms
Anthropology: Example Questions
Was a cultural change caused by a change in the society’s leadership?
What ideas or explanations can we use to describe what causes cultures to change?
Was it caused by a shift in the values and norms of the culture’s membership?
Is the technological change a factor in an observed cultural change?
According to Anthropologists, Social Change happens because of…
1. Invention: new innovations that change the way cultures function
2. Discovery: finding information that changes a culture that was previously unknown
3. Diffusion: distribution of ideas and information between cultures
4. Acculturation: blending of certain beliefs and customs between 2 cultures after close interaction over time
Acculturation can occur in 3 ways:
Incorporation: It can be freely borrowed Canoe is Canadian cultural borrowed from Natives
Directed change: It can be forced; when one culture overtakes another
and suppresses its people We speak English & French… colonization
Cultural evolution: View that cultures evolve according to common
patterns in ways that are predictable Hunter gatherers – industrialized – post industrialized
So Acculturation is adapting to your new society... (new immigrants...)
Is adapting a bad thing (and the resulting cultural loss)?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EXgC7MysnYE (2:24) ‘Thomas Sowell - Assimilation And Acculturation’