What is a lexicon
This is a set of words developed by a culture in relation to their particular environment or circumstances
Description | Match: |
The systematic identification and description of sounds of all languages. | What is phonetics |
The smallest units of sound that have meaning in a language | What are morphemes |
Indigenous, or other forms of knowledge regarding sustainability of local resources that is often embedded in language | What is TEK (traditional ecological knowledge) |
The idea that language shapes the way we see and think about the world. | What is linguistic relativity, or the Whorf-Sapir hypothesis |
This is a set of words developed by a culture in relation to their particular environment or circumstances | What is a lexicon |
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 |
The belief that many human behaviors (like criminality or poverty) are innate and controlled by an individual's genes. | What is biological determinism |
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 |
This form of racism refers to inequality that is built into cultural institutions that perpetuate patterns of inequality. | What is institutionalized racism |
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 |
.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 |
Power that organizes the systemic interaction within and among societies, directing economic, political forces and ideological forces | What is structural power |
Power that coerces others that is backed up by economic and/or military power. | What is hard power |
Power that co-opts and persuades rather than coerces, getting people to change their behaviours, beliefs, values. | What is soft power |
Physical and/or psychological harm caused by impersonal, exploitative, and unjust social, political, and economic systems | What is structural violence |
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 |
An ambitious set of objectives for improving the human condition by 2015. | What are the UN Millennium Goals |
Canada’s federal development agency. | What is CIDA |
The application of anthropological perspectives to the multidisciplinary branch of development studies. | What is development anthropology |
Both UNICEF and the Mustard Seed Soceity are examples of this type of aid organization. | What are NGOs, or non-governmental organizations |