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Anthropology and Social Change Anthropologists regard CULTURES, the focus of their studies as constantly changing organisms

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Anthropology and Social Change

Anthropologists regard CULTURES, the focus of their studies as constantly changing organisms

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Anthropology: Example Questions

Was a cultural change caused by a change in the society’s leadership?

What ideas or explanations can we use to describe what causes cultures to change?

Was it caused by a shift in the values and norms of the culture’s membership?

Is the technological change a factor in an observed cultural change?

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According to Anthropologists, Social Change happens because of…

1. Invention: new innovations that change the way cultures function

2. Discovery: finding information that changes a culture that was previously unknown

3. Diffusion: distribution of ideas and information between cultures

4. Acculturation: blending of certain beliefs and customs between 2 cultures after close interaction over time

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Acculturation can occur in 3 ways:

Incorporation: It can be freely borrowed Canoe is Canadian cultural borrowed from Natives

Directed change: It can be forced; when one culture overtakes another

and suppresses its people We speak English & French… colonization

Cultural evolution: View that cultures evolve according to common

patterns in ways that are predictable Hunter gatherers – industrialized – post industrialized

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So Acculturation is adapting to your new society... (new immigrants...)

Is adapting a bad thing (and the resulting cultural loss)?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EXgC7MysnYE (2:24) ‘Thomas Sowell - Assimilation And Acculturation’

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EXgC7MysnYE
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EXgC7MysnYE

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