| L is for Linguistics |
| #1 |
The systematic identification and description of sounds of all languages. |
What is phonetics |
| #2 |
The smallest units of sound that have meaning in a language |
What are morphemes |
| #3 |
Indigenous, or other forms of knowledge regarding sustainability of local resources that is often embedded in language |
What is TEK (traditional ecological knowledge) |
| #4 |
The idea that language shapes the way we see and think about the world. |
What is linguistic relativity, or the Whorf-Sapir hypothesis |
| #5 |
This is a set of words developed by a culture in relation to their particular environment or circumstances |
What is a lexicon |
| Off to the Races |
| #1 |
These real estate and zoning techniques that characterized some neighborhoods as "high-risk" led to generational wealth disparity beginning with the FHA housing program. |
What is red lining |
| #2 |
The belief that many human behaviors (like criminality or poverty) are innate and controlled by an individual's genes. |
What is biological determinism |
| #3 |
A set of beliefs and practices that aims at improving the genetic quality of the human population by having humans rather than the environment define what traits offer adaptive “fitness”. |
What is eugenics |
| #4 |
This form of racism refers to inequality that is built into cultural institutions that perpetuate patterns of inequality. |
What is institutionalized racism |
| #5 |
What aspect of population genetics and evolution likely contributes the most to our inability to separate human populations into discrete biological racial groups? |
What is gene flow |
| One World Culture |
| #1 |
.A theory that describes globalization as a system structured to benefit the core, drawing resources from the periphery nations. |
What is World Systems Theory or approach |
| #2 |
Power that organizes the systemic interaction within and among societies, directing economic, political forces and ideological forces |
What is structural power |
| #3 |
Power that coerces others that is backed up by economic and/or military power. |
What is hard power |
| #4 |
Power that co-opts and persuades rather than coerces, getting people to change their behaviours, beliefs, values. |
What is soft power |
| #5 |
Physical and/or psychological harm caused by impersonal, exploitative, and unjust social, political, and economic systems |
What is structural violence |
| Hand up or hand out |
| #1 |
An intervention philosophy that historically has encouraged industrialization, modernization, westernization, and individualism as desirable evolutionary advances to address issues like poverty and hunger. |
What is development |
| #2 |
An ambitious set of objectives for improving the human condition by 2015. |
What are the UN Millennium Goals |
| #3 |
Canada’s federal development agency. |
What is CIDA |
| #4 |
The application of anthropological perspectives to the multidisciplinary branch of development studies. |
What is development anthropology |
| #5 |
Both UNICEF and the Mustard Seed Soceity are examples of this type of aid organization. |
What are NGOs, or non-governmental organizations |
