Challenge and Change Exam

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Participant-observation?Example?
Participant-observation is a technique used when anthropologists live with their subjects for a long time, participating as a group or community member and recording their observations.
example: living/participating in a group, researches will be accepted by group members.
Intuition?Example?
Your own emotions and logic.example: meeting someone and getting a weird feeling about them.
Kinship?Example?
A family relationship based on what a culture considers to be a family.example: I have a kinship relationship with my sister.
Patrilineal? Example?
A method of tracing and organizing families through the father's line.example: my family takes my father's last name.
Matrillineal?Example?
A method of tracing and organizing families through the mother's line.example: my family takes my mommy's last name.
Fictive Kinship?Example?
Practice of acknowledging as kin people who are not biologically related.example: god parents.
Ethnography?Example?
The scientific study of human races and cultures.example: study of being christian.
Binary Opposites?Example?
Malinowski's principle that humans tend to see things in terms of 2 forces that are opposite to each other.example: day and night.
Experimental Psychology?
Branch of psych that sets up experiments to see how individuals act in particular situations.
Clinical Psychology?
Branch of discipline that develops programs for treating individuals suffering from mental illness and behavioural disorders.
Stimulus-response?
Principle that if the subject is correctly stimulated it will give a appropriate response.
Hierarchy of Human needs?By?
Ranking of authority and power. we all try to satisfy range from basic survival needs (shelter, food, to get to next level).Maslow.
Deviance?
Any behaviour that is different from the social norm.example: cross dresser.
Rehabilitation?Retribution?
Re-education of inmates so they grow to accept society values.forceful punishment of criminals in the belief that this will reduce the crime rate.
Positivist?
To predict behaviour, emotions not included.quantitative research, experiments, surveys.