ANTR 350 Study Guide - Final Guide: Neoevolutionism, Psychological Anthropology, Evolutionism
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All cultures undergo the same development stages in the same order. The main classifications include savagery, barbarism, and civilization. All societies change as a result of cultural borrowing from one another. Each culture is unique and must be studies in its own context. Personality is largely seen to be the result of learning culture. Society is thought to be like a biological organism with all the parts interconnected. Culture is said to be shaped by environment and technological conditions. Culture evolve when people are able to increase the amount of energy under their control. Culture is the product of "material conditions" in which a given community of people finds itself. The last to develop after the natural sciences. Social and political philosophies were informed by theological reasoning grounded in _________________ based on the bible. True or false: philosophy is distinct from science. Based on analytic understanding of the nature of truth asserted about specific topics of issues.
