In Conjunction with Cultural Anthropology - Touro Institute

You will be introduced to the role of applied anthropology in efforts at directed cultural change
and the problems that population growth posses for underdeveloped countries.
Assignment Overview
MCQ :: Matching :: True/False :: Short Essay
MCQ - Chapter 14: Cultural Evolution and the Contemporary World
1. Acculturation is best defined as:
a. the loss of culture by a human society.
b. culture change brought on by intense interaction between two cultures.
c. intense loyalties to a culture in response to competition.
d. the idea that the more powerful society is likely to change more than the less powerful society.
2. The concept of SPECIFIC EVOLUTION is best defined as:
a. change in the direction of increasing adaptive specialization.
b. the evolution of a specific culture.
c. the evolution of a specific subsystem of a culture.
d. any change in a particular cultural trait.
3. Which of the following is true of the GENERAL EVOLUTION of cultures?
a. It is a stage that all cultures must pass through.
b. It refers to qualitative changes in cultural complexity.
c. It has no counterpart in biological evolution.
d. It involves increases in the degree of efficient adaptation
4. The psychological effects of peoples’ declining control over their personal lives that can come
with increasing cultural complexity is called:
a. depression.
b. compartmentalization.
c. powerlessness.
d. alienation.
5. Indigenous people are:
a. Those in a territory before the present occupants arrived.
b. The original inhabitants, now politically subordinate to those who control the area.
c. The poorer members of a society.
d. those born into a particular society and territory, as opposed to those who immigrated there.
6. Industrialization refers to: