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Understand the defining attributes of culture. In particular, you should understand what it means that culture is learned, symbolic, shared, all-encompassing, and integrated; the relationship between culture and nature; and how culture can be both adaptive and maladaptive. |
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Understand culture's evolutionary basis. Key insights to this understanding derive from comparisons between humans and other primates. Identify what humans and apes have in common and what distinguishes them. |
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Know the differences between cultural universals, generalities, and particularities, and be able to provide examples of each. |
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Understand the relationship between culture and individuals. |
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Identify the different levels of culture and why it is important to distinguish between them. |
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Distinguish between ethnocentrism and cultural relativism and how both relate to human rights and anthropological research. |
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Understand the mechanisms of cultural change. |
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Know what globalization is, the forces that are bringing it about, and its effects on local communities. |