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Details Title: Mid-Term Review Description: Basic Concepts Total Flash Cards: 8 Created: 10/05/2007 15:24:03	To study from this set of flash cards, or to create your own your own study flash cards, register HERE. If you are already a registered user, CLICK HERE.
Cards Term Ethnology Definition Studies a more broad point of view, comparative study. - Comparative science that studies “races” (or “ethnicities”). Classification, evolution, social organization. Term Ethnography Definition Intensive on a single case rather than comparing many societies. Emphasizes the subjective contribution of the fieldworker who participates in, observes, and then interprets and communicates a way of life. “The ethnography” as product (book) and rite of passage for the professional anthropologist. Term cultural relativism Definition understanding the ways of other cultures and not judging these practices according to one's own cultural ways. Term emic Definition view of the world as if you belonged to a specifc culture Term etic Definition views of a culture that are accepted by a group of scientists as a valid description for the culture. Term participant observation Definition living in a culture that is not your own while also keeping a detailed record of your observations and interviews. Term ethnocentrism Definition judging other cultures by the standards of your own, which you believe to be superior. Term Naïve realism Definition Naive realism is the view that when we perceive something, we have perceived it exactly as it is.