Terms in Anthropology

1. the idea that humans, like animals and plants compete in a struggle for existence in which natural selection results in "survival of the fittest"
3. the movement and process which has "made the world a smaller place."
8. the view that cultural traditions must be understood within the context of a particular society's responses to problems and opportunities
11. all aspects of a culture are interrelated and that an understanding of any cultural trait or institution requires knowing how it impacts and is in turn impacted by other institutions
12. "totalizing, all- encompassing perspective"

2. culture generally develops in a uniform and progressive manner
4. the system of knowledge shared by members of a society
5. patterns of behavior which enable a culture to cope with its surroundings
6. all people today are fully and equally human
7. the transmission of elements or features of or culture to another
9. the practice of judging another society by the values and standards of one's own society; regarding all other ways of life as inferior
10. a group of people who are separate from surrounding populations and who have a distinctive culture