Vocabulary Set #4

Question 1

19th century
Each culture/civilization goes through a process of phases:
Savage
Barbarian
Civilized
Cultural anthropologists are interested in both the Barbarian and Civilized category

Answer 1

Unlinear Evolution

Question 2

Opposite to unlinear
19th century
Societies start with savage, then barbarians, and then civilized. some beyond civilized to be sophisticated. some going further into sophistication or going back to barbarians.
Ancient Egypt was the high satisfaction

Answer 2

Diffusion Theory

Question 3

19th century
Theological, Metaphysical, and Positivism
Coined term sociology
Say all people/civilizations start off as theological, then metaphysical, and positivism at the end which relates to science. he relates this to the cycle of life.

Answer 3

August Cotes Law of 3 stages

Question 4

All people/societies’ understanding of the world starts theologically. a God controlling things, doing, parts of everything.
everything is influenced by God.
Child-like (early civilization) like early Greece and Egypt

Answer 4

Theological

Question 5

Once the civilization moves away from superstitions, they still entertain the idea of the supernatural but at the same time use logic. More interested in proving things.
Renaissance and Modern Period

Answer 5

Methaphysical

Question 6

Based on science no longer accept fate based answers, scientifically studying everything

Answer 6

Positivism

Question 7

The idea that the Bible is the literal word of God, anything in there is true and can’t be changed

Answer 7

creationism/fundamentals

Question 8

18th-century Alexandria, theory of evolution
darwin develops a complex theory of evolution
He refers to himself as a naturalist, took him 20 years to publish it

Answer 8

Charles Darwin on The Origin of Species

Question 9

darwins Bulldog
oppositive of darwin
pushes darwin to publish the book, so science can get the recognition it deserves

Answer 9

T.H. Huxley

Question 10

The view or belief that the existence of God, of the divine or the supernatural, is unknown or unknowable

Greek term meaning not to know

Answer 10

Agnosticsm

Question 11

Philosopher attempts to survive the Bible, getting rid of the supernatural

Answer 11

German Higher Criticsm

Question 12

All three are based on competition

Answer 12

Social Darwinism/ Laissez-Faire Capitalism/ New Imperialism

Question 13

Why do people have more than others, why do they go to places to “civilize them”
superior people and inferior people
Part of nature: superiority ruling over everything
social Darwinism- some make it, some don’t

Answer 13

Herbert Spencers Social Darwinism

Question 14

Neanthertal, primitive, cave-man

Answer 14

Savages

Question 15

A group that took over Rome, an outsider group
A term used today as vandalism
Violent, primitive, fight over food/gold/women
The strongest becomes the leader
Reamerges in the Renososances and Dark Middle Ages

Answer 15

Barbarians

Question 16

According to the theory in the end they become this …

Answer 16

Civilized

Question 17

the theory that individuals, groups, and peoples are subject to the same Darwinian laws of natural selection as plants and animals.

Answer 17

Social Darwinism

Question 18

Government stays away from things
an economic philosophy of free-market capitalism that opposes government intervention.

Answer 18

Laissez-Faire Capitalism

Question 19

Taking over other countries

Answer 19

Imperialism

Question 20

As they take over countries(inferior countries) for the people’s own good because that’s what God told them to do

Answer 20

New Imperialism