The Social Sciences

Question 1

When did the divide between cultural and physical anthropology begin to develop?

Answer 1

12th century

Question 2

In the 12th center what type of science did Cultural anthropology begin to become?

Answer 2

Social Science

Question 3

In the 12th center what type of science did Physical anthropology begin to become?

Answer 3

Natural Science

Question 4

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Answer 4

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Question 5

What is Culture?

Answer 5

The customs, belifes, social forms and material traits of a racial, religious or social group

Question 6

Cultural Anthropology focuses on what?

Answer 6

human cultures from begining to present day

Question 7

Social anthropology studies focus on what?

Answer 7

individivuils interact in group settings

Question 8

What is Sociology?

Answer 8

he scientific investigation of behaivor of individurals and groups in a society, and how they effect each other.

Question 9

What is Society?

Answer 9

A group of people joined by common belifes, intrests, goverment, econimc systems and culture

Question 10

Sociology is the study of (present or past) society?

Answer 10

past

Question 11

Anthropology is the study of (present or past) society?

Answer 11

both

Question 12

Society studies lifestyles of groups in?

Answer 12

Communites, Neigborhoods, Schools and churches

Question 13

What science is nicknamed “king of the social sciences”?

Answer 13

Economics

Question 14

What is Economics?

Answer 14

Economics is the study of how good and services are produced/distributitted

Question 15

What are the three basic questions of Economics?

Answer 15

⁃ What should be produced?
⁃ How should products be produced?
⁃ For whom should the products be produced?

Question 16

What is Macroeconomics?

Answer 16

Maceonomics borad view of all resoruces, factors of production

Question 17

What is Microeconomics?

Answer 17

Microeconmics fouces on independent areas of economy such as busineesses, households, deomgraphic subjects

Question 18

What is Geography?

Answer 18

⁃ Geographers study physical and human characterstics of the locations
⁃ Geographers study how people interact with there goverment
⁃ Geographers exame movement of people
⁃ Geographerst study regions (areas with similar charcteristics)
⁃ Geography how invirment effects culture

Question 19

What is human geography?

Answer 19

The study of activities of individuals in geographic region or area is refeared to as human geography

Question 20

What is population geography?

Answer 20

The study of demographics

Question 21

What is cultural geography?

Answer 21

The study of cultures in a region

Question 22

What is population geography?

Answer 22

The study of demographics is called population geography

Examin population movement and information about death and birth rates in geographic regions

Question 23

History is a?

Answer 23

Social science and humanities

Question 24

What is history?

Answer 24

The record of past events in order of witch they happened

Question 25

What do Historians do?

Answer 25

Historians conduct reasurch to deturmen, accrucey significance and cause/effect of passt events

Question 26

What is Psychology?

Answer 26

It is the study of the human mind and how it interacts with the body

Question 27

What overlaps Psychology and anthropology?

Answer 27

Social Psychology

Question 28

What is Social Psychology?

Answer 28

⁃ Social psycology used to reasearch beahivor and realtionships in groups settings ⁃ Social psycologists cous on reaseurch on how members of groups interact with each other

Question 29

How do anthropologist use social psychology?

Answer 29

Anthropologitsts study the orgin of the physical social and cultural development and behaivor of humans

Question 30

Social-cultural anthropologists study what?

Answer 30

They study the customs, culture/ social lives of groups in all settings

Question 31

What do Linguistic anthropologists study?

Answer 31

Linguistic anthropologitsts invistagate the role of and changes to langugae over time

Question 32

What do Biophysical anthropolgists study?

Answer 32

Biophysical anthropolgitsts reasurch evelotion of the human body look for earliest evidence of human and analize how cluture and biology influence each other

Question 33

Physical anthropologists examine what to understand what?

Answer 33

Physical anthropoligitsts examine human relamins to understand population dememgraphics and factors affected populations (ex.desease)

Question 34

What do Archeologists examine?

Answer 34

Achreologists examine and recover material evedence (ex.pottery) from past human cultures to determ history, customs, ect.

Question 35

What do Geographers analyze?

Answer 35

Geographers analize distribation of phsyical and cutlural pheomena in local,regional, contintental and globel scales

Question 36

What do Economic georgaphers study?

Answer 36

Economic geogrpahers study distibation of resorces and economic activiites

Question 37

What do Politicals study?

Answer 37

The relationship of geography and politics

Question 38

What do Cultural geographers study?

Answer 38

The geography and how that relates to culture

Question 39

what do Physical geographers study?

Answer 39

Phsycial geograpehrs examine variation in climate, vegietation, ect. And how effect human activity

Question 40

What do Urban Geographers study?

Answer 40

Cities and metropolitan areas geography and how that relates to transportation

Question 41

What to Regional geographers study?

Answer 41

They study the physical economic polititcal and cultural characteristics of regions ranging in size

Question 42

What do medical geographers investigate?

Answer 42

Medicial geographers investigate the health care delivery system, ediemiology and effect of enviorment on health

Question 43

What is Epidemology?

Answer 43

The study cause and control of epidemics

Question 44

What is GIS?

Answer 44

Geographic information systems

Question 45

Who uses GIS?

Answer 45

Geographers

Question 46

What do Political scientists study?

Answer 46

Political systems

Question 47

What do Sociologists study?

Answer 47

the interaction, trace orgin and growth of groups and influence ACTIVITY the cahracteristcis hw idividuals affect each other, and the effects oscial traits effect a persons daily life

Question 48

How do economics study?

Answer 48

⁃ Conduct reasurch, collect data, moniter trends ect | ⁃ Issues (ex.intrest rates)

Question 49

What types of behavior do Psychologists study?

Answer 49

Physical, Cognitive, Emotional, and Social

Question 50

Demography is most closely related to the study of which of these?

Answer 50

populations

Question 51

In which of these social sciences is the study of monetary purchases of a household most often explored?

Answer 51

economics

Question 52

The scientific method is used most often in which of these social sciences?

Answer 52

psychology

Question 53

Which of these subjects can be defined as the study of activities of individuals and groups in a geographic region?

Answer 53

human geography

Question 54

In which of these social sciences would the subject of a field study examining the lives of a primitive tribe on a Pacific island be discussed?

Answer 54

anthropology

Question 55

A research study on the effect of alcoholism among college students would occur in which of these social sciences?

Answer 55

sociology

Question 56

A narrative account of the experiences of the men who flew on B-17 bombers during World War II would be researched in which of these social sciences?

Answer 56

history

Question 57

Which social scientist would study the American Legion's practice of displaying the American flag on Memorial Day?

Answer 57

anthropologist

Question 58

Which of these terms can be defined as the customs, beliefs, social norms, and material traits of a racial, religious, or social group?

Answer 58

culture