Write an essay on one of the following topics. Choose whichever question you can answer best. 1. Is Socrates that emerges as a supporter of strict obedience to the laws in the Crito at odds with Socrates who is apparently determined to defy any potential court order forbidding further public philosophizing in the Apology? Whatever […]
Choose one of the stages in Erik Erikson’s psychosocial development theory that you have experienced or are experiencing now. How do you feel about completing this stage? What impact did that difficult time have on your personality? As a starting point, let’s consider what we know about the stage as a whole. Then, make the […]
1. Residential segregation and gentrification are interlocking urban inequalities that impact the health and well-being of marginalized populations around the country. Why is it important to consider these issues jointly and from a historical perspective? 2. How does an understanding of residential segregation provide insight into the process of gentrification and its consequences?
Darwin gathered information from the fields of geology, paleontology, taxonomy, demography, and what is now evolutionary biology to develop his theory of evolution which includes the idea of variation and natural selection. Discuss how the theories postulated by Lyell and Malthus (discuss and define them) lead to the development of his theory of natural selection.
How is culture produced and reproduced? The social construction of reality is a framework that helps us begin to answer this question. Using the social construction of reality framework how food in one of the below case studies is connected with other facets of culture and how it plays a role in the production and […]
Horace Miner’s 1956 piece on the Nacirema has become a classic in anthropology for a number of reasons. Miner’s piece was at once intended to illustrate the pitfalls of ethnocentrism and cultural romanticism while emphasizing the need for cultural relativism and the role of the etic perspective as a descriptive tool. While illustrating the etic […]
The proponents of “traditional” marriage often claim that a heterosexual and monogamous union is the most “natural” form of marriage (implying that non-conventional forms of marriage are “unnatural”). Have monogamy and heterosexual unions been the only or dominant forms of marriages worldwide? Please incorporate information from the chapters on marriage and family in your response.
Drawing from the readings of this assignment. What will be the future implications for attempting to advance and modernize cultures that don’t need or benefit from our development, and will this have an impact on the global economy? Will other societies come up with a better solution, and will there be new evolutionary adaptions that […]
This week, we’ve learned about anthropological and historical perspectives on the cultural construction of gender and sexuality, as well as changing frameworks for understanding the complexities of sex itself. As described in the lecture, anthropologists talk about gender as a performance, rather than simply identity. We do gender according to norms, roles, and ideologies that […]
Students can comment on especially the social, behavioral, ideological (e.g. beliefs), and very personal aspects of the material culture around them, which they are of course noticing more because of the emphasis in an archaeology class. You might consider these questions about the material of your everyday life: Questions: 1. what different artifacts did […]
