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2. an approach to social science and history that involves examination of the development and functioning of the world economic system.
4. an approach developed in British anthropology that emphasized the ways that the parts of a society work together to support the functioning of the whole.
8. a type of observation in which the anthropologist observes while participating in the same activities in which her informants are engaged.
9. the idea that we should seek to understand another person’s beliefs and behaviors from the perspective of their own culture and not our own.
10. the tendency to view one’s own culture as most important and correct and as the stick by which to measure all other cultures.

1. the idea that behavioral differences are a result of cultural, not racial or genetic causes.
3. an approach to dispute resolution that emphasizes compromise and consensus rather than confrontation and results in the marginalization of dissent (harmony ideology) and the repression of demands for justice.
5. a way of organizing research and academic programs around world regions such as Africa, the Middle East, East Asia, China, Latin America, and Europe.
6. taking a broad view of the historical, environmental, and cultural foundations of behavior.
7. refers to the human capacity to learn any language or culture.