Transcript Quiz #2 Today

Quiz #2 Today
Reminder, HIPAA Training deadline,
next February 13th
1. Which of the following is the
most basic procedure in doing
any ethnographic fieldwork?
a. participant observation
b. focus groups
c. structured questionnaires
d. multi-dimensional scaling
e. probability statistics
2. What is the anthropological term
for applying “our own” cultural
standards about behavior to
“other” cultures?
a. ethnocentrism
b. cultural relativism
c. participant observation
d. cultural transmission
3. “The Whole is more than the sum of
its part” was illustrated in class using a
typology of suicide found in the works of
which one of the following social
theorists?
a. Singer
b. Durkheim
c. Boas
d. Malinowski
4. Anomic suicide results from
a. Too much social integratrion
b. too little social integration
c. an imbalance of means and felt needs
when means are unable to fulfill needs,
too little institutional support.
d. too much moral regulation.
5. Ethnographic research
a) reinforces the traditional standards of positivism.
b) forces a shift away from science defined narrowly
in terms of a lab, controls and experiments.
c) discovers facts and therefore removes “meaning”
from confounding the other aspects of culture.
d) provides a way to study culture without focusing
on social change.