Practice Quiz Chapter 02

. All of the following statements about the positivist method are true EXCEPT ________.

. ________ is knowledge that explicitly states the observer's frame of reference with regards to his/her nationality, gender, background, etc.

. A "rich point" is ________.

. Multi-sited fieldwork ________.

. The notion of doing fieldwork in the researcher's own society ________.

. The shared, public symbolic systems of a culture are known as ________.

. The example of Briggs's cultural violation of the Utuk cultural code illustrates ________.

. Culture shock ________.

. For anthropologists, thinking about the way members of a culture think about their lives is known as ________.

. All of the following statements about informants are true EXCEPT ________.

. Anthropologists hoped to generate ________ by using positivist research methods.

. 12. When a successful dialogue is achieved between the anthropologist and the informant during fieldwork, the data generated are understood to be ________.

. An anthropologist's ________ is her unique perspective, which informs her research choices.

. When trying to study a cultural group in our often disconnected and globalized world, it is best to use a ________ research method.

. In the 1930s, Margaret Mead used a method called ________ when she studied four different societies in an attempt to discover the range and causes of gender roles.

. Sets of predetermined questions that one asks informants in the course of fieldwork are called ________.

. Participant observation means that the anthropologist ________.

. The idea that there is a single reality “out there” that can be detected through one's senses and the use of the scientific method is known as ________.

. ________ is credited with pioneering the fieldwork technique known as participant observation.

. The differences we see in the ethnographic research conducted by Annette Weiner and Bronislaw Malinowski are an indication that ________.

. The preferences, beliefs and opinions of one person can be said to be ________ knowledge.

. Anthropologists heading off to do their first fieldwork are generally advised to ________.

. In addition to the people being researched, an anthropologist is accountable to _______ .

. An anthropologist has an obligation to ensure that they always conduct ______ research.

. Making sense of the belief and behaviour of another culture involves a conscious act of ________.

. While not all facts are true, David Hess defines of fact as ________.

. The traditional dialect of fieldwork can sometimes act to exclude informants from the anthropological process.

. The effects of fieldwork on informants may take years to manifest.

. Establishing interpersonal relationships with informants can sometimes enhance the effects of culture shock.

. According to Mike Evans, adhering to principles of informer confidentiality can silence the voice of the community under study.

. Cultural facts are made both during and after fieldwork.

. Participant-observation involves direct face-to-face interaction between the researcher and his or her informants or research partners.

. By following ethical guidelines, anthropologists are relieved of responsibility to the people and communities they study.

. As anthropologists began to move away from the positivist approach, the ethnographies that different observers began to generate demonstrated how people working with different assumptions could generate different interpretations of the same culture.

. In fieldwork, proper interpretation comes from comprehending the cultural self in contrast to the cultural other.

. Multi-sited research simplifies research as it offers replication of the same data from various sources.

. While fieldwork was historically popular, it is rarely used today.

. Margaret Mead compared four different societies using a method called controlled comparison to study gender roles.

. Fieldwork done in the same location by two researchers will normally result in some similar conclusions and some that differ.

. Fieldwork is more like a dialogue and an experiment.

. Reflexivity essentially means the same thing as objectivity in research.

. Because fieldwork is not always fully funded some anthropologists pay for parts of it out of their own pockets.

. Researchers are free to accept or reject advice given to them by research ethics boards.

. All forms of cultural interpretation must be based on objectivity.

. Multi-sited ethnography focuses on a single topic explored in different field locations.

. Reflexivity is an ongoing open ended process that changes with anthropological experience.

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