1. WEEK 5 & 6: Language
2. What is Anthropology?
3. What is language and where does it come from?
3.1. What are the effects of globalization on language?
3.2. "Language: A system of communication organized by rules that uses symbols such as words, sounds, and gestures to convey information"(Guest 113).
3.3. However, with globalization allowing languages and their cultures to spread and dominate on a global scale, it also leads to the extinction of other languages and cultures. Language contributes to the formation of culture, such as through vocabulary, greetings or humor.
4. What is globalization, and why is it important for anthropology?
4.1. "Globalization: The worldwide intensification of interaction and increased movement of money, people, goods, and ideas within and across national borders."(Guest 17).
4.2. It is important because it remains focused on the impact of these global processes on individuals and cultures.
5. "Anthropology: The study of the full scope of human diversity, past and present, and the application of that knowledge to help people of different backgrounds better understand one another"(Guest 7).
6. WEEK 1: Introduction to Anthropology and Culture
7. WEEK 2: Culture
7.1. What is Culture?
7.1.1. "Culture: A system of knowledge beliefs, patterns of behavior, artifacts, institutions and that are created, learned, shared and contested by a group of people."(Guest 35)
7.2. HOW HAS THE CULTURE CONCEPT DEVELOPED IN ANTHROPOLOGY?
8. Week 9: RELIGION
8.1. How is that we come to believe in God, Devil, Santeria, Ancestor spirits, Saints, Ghosts, Karma, etc.?
8.2. Religions incorporate myths into how they practice, and why they practice by ... as Similarity Magic) Is a form of magic in which an object, act, etc. that is similar to ... sense Christianity is a dualism religion with the opposition of God and Satan. ... In return for the blessing by ancestors, worship insures that the ancestor's spirits
8.3. How can we explain how people believe in things that seem illogical?
8.4. If you were allowed to ask questions, if they were answered convincingly; if you could dig deeper to satisfy yourself; if beliefs were never imposed on you; if your critical thinking was encouraged and nurtured, you would never believe in illogical thoughts.
9. Week 11 & 12: CLASS INEQUALITY
9.1. What are the effects of global inequality?
9.2. Effects of income inequality, researchers have found, include higher rates of health and social problems, and lower rates of social goods, a lower population-wide satisfaction and happiness and even a lower level of economic growth when human capital is neglected for high-end consumption.
9.3. Why are class and inequality largely invisible in US culture?
9.4. Why are class and inequality largely invisible in U.S. culture? Role of Media -- ignore (and therefore hide) class stratification, class invisible in U.S. tv programming, and rarely portrays poverty, but rather homogenized upper-middle-class designed to represent "everyone."
9.5. How are class and inequality constructed in US?
9.6. American society is stratified into social classes based on wealth, income, educational attainment, occupation, and social networks.
10. WEEK 15: Ethnicity and Nationalism
10.1. What does “ethnicity” mean to anthropologist
10.1.1. Few anthropologists understand ethnicity. as something that explains conflict in itself, and most perceive it as an aspect of social interaction rather than a set of cultural characteristics associated with a particular group.
10.2. What is the relationship of ethnicity to the nation
10.2.1. Ethnic differences are not inherited; they are learned. When racial or ethnic groups merge in a political movement as a form of establishing a distinct political unit, then such groups can be termed nations that may be seen as representing beliefs in nationalism.
10.3. How is ethnicity created and put in motion?
10.3.1. - Created when power relations undergo negotiation in a community or nation. - Put into motion by gathering people who value these same ideas.
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12. WEEK 3: Our Origins
12.1. What Do We Know about Our Human Ancestors?
12.1.1. Scientific evidence shows that the physical and behavioral traits shared by all people originated from apelike ancestors and evolved over a period of approximately six million years. One of the earliest defining human traits, bipedalism -- the ability to walk on two legs -- evolved over 4 million years ago
12.2. How Does Evolution Work?
12.2.1. Evolution occurs when these heritable differences become more common or rare in a population, either non-randomly through natural selection or randomly through genetic drift. ... This occurs because organisms with advantageous traits pass on more copies of these heritable traits to the next generation.
13. WEEK 4: Our Origins
13.1. How Do Scientists Learn about Prehistoric Life?
13.1.1. How do scientists learn about things that lived long ago? Scientists learn about ancient plants and animals by studying fossils. Fossils are the remains or other evidence of life that have been preserved in the Earth's crust.
13.2. How do humans fit into the history of life on Earth?
13.2.1. Charles Darwin proposed that all life evolved from “one primordial form”. This means that humans are related to even the simplest and evolutionarily oldest organisms. ... There is compelling evidence to support Darwin's common ancestor theory
14. WEEK 7 & 8: Gender and Sexuality
14.1. Gender stratification -unequal distribution of power and access to a group’s resources, opp., rights, and privileges based on gender.
14.2. How do anthropologists explore the relationship between gender and power?
14.2.1. "Gender studies emerged from a political reality of exclusion of portions of the population based on their perceived non-conforming sexual identities and roles. Men and women are socialized from early days in life and are expected to perform in a particular manner “suitable” for their respective gender. Historically, those who deviated from such prescription often faced severe disciplinary reactions from being ostracized by the public to being placed in “reform” institutions." ( Shahrokhi 3)
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14.2.3. •Gender stereotypes-preconceived notion about the attributes of, differences between, and proper roles for men and women in a culture
14.2.4. •Gender ideology-a set of cultural ideas, usually stereotypical, about the essential character of different gender that functions to promote and justify gender stratification
14.3. Are there more than two sexes?
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15. Week 10 : GLOBAL ECONOMY
15.1. What is an economy, and what is its purpose?
15.2. An economy is the large set of inter-related production and consumption activities that aid in determining how scarce resources are allocated. In an economy, the production and consumption of goods and services are used to fulfill the needs of those living and operating within it.
15.3. How does today’s global economy link workers with consumers worldwide?
15.4. Exchange of goods and services is now able to be done across borders through migration and the internet.
16. WEEK 14: Race and Racism
16.1. Do biologically separate races exist?
16.1.1. Races may exist in humans in a cultural sense, but biological concepts of race are needed to access their reality in a non-species-specific manner and to see if cultural categories correspond to biological categories within humans.
16.2. What is racism?
16.2.1. Individuals' thoughts/actions that create unequal access to power, privilege, resources, and opportunities based on one's race.