subdivisions of anthropology. 3. Outline the history of anthropology. 4. Discuss the research methods of anthropological research. 5. Explain the causes of culture shock. 6. Analyze the values of cultural relativism. 7. Identify the uses of cross-cultural comparison. After reading this chapter, you should be able to: iStockphoto/Thinkstock iStockphoto 8. Explain the basic ethical questions of anthropological research. 9. Explain the different concepts used in an anthropological analysis of culture
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of criminal justice authorities. Nearly 40% of these offenders, about two million, had been using alcohol at the time of the offense for which they were convicted. Whether the offender was on probation or was incarcerated in a local jail or a state prison, offenders were about equally likely to have been drinking at the time of the crime. What they consumed was similar, with beer being the most commonly used alcoholic beverage: 30 percent of probationers, 32 percent of jail inmates, and 23 percent
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‘Large Hadron Collider could spell doomsday for Earth in nine days!’ (News track India 2008). Exaggerations, misinterpretations and lack of knowledge can lead people in a society to believe things such as black holes that could potentially consume and destroy the Earth being created by the Large Hadron Collider. This is often the beginning of a phenomenon known as a moral panic unless it proves invalid by the masses or not profitable for institutions or organisations. First coined by Jock Young (1971:37)
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the themes of love, conquest, devotion, deception, spirituality and how they play a role in altering the lives of the female protagonists in various different situations and offer my own opinions on how the tragedies are formed. I will begin my comparison of the female heroines that I will be discussing, with Giselle. Figure 1'Giselle and Count Albrecht' The Russian Ballet Giselle is a poor peasant’s daughter who falls in love with Count Albrecht. Count Albrecht’s character plays the main
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trappings and suits of woe. (1,1,76 and 81-86) “The will of my most seeming-virtuous queen;” (I,5,47) “That one may smile, and smile, and be a villain;” (I,5,109) “for there is nothing / either good or bad but thinking makes it so: to me it is a prison” (II,2,249-251) “The spirit that I have seen / May be the devil: and the devil hath power / To assume a pleasing shape” (II,2,596-598) “’Tis too much proved that, with devotion’s visage, And pious action, we do sugar o’er/The devil himself”
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Teenage Pregnancy Unit Teenage pregnancy: an overview of the research evidence Introduction In 1999 the government’s ten-year national Teenage Pregnancy Strategy was launched. The main aims of the strategy are to: • Reduce the rate of teenage conceptions with the specific aim of halving the rate of conceptions among under-18s, and to set a firmly established downward trend in the rate of conceptions among under-16s, by 2010 • Increase the participation of teenage parents in education, training
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Professor Brown The Holocaust: History and Memory April 23, 2012 Ordinary Men In Christopher R. Browning’s Ordinary Men: Reserve Police Battalion 101 and The Final Solution in Poland, Browning describes the story of how “ordinary men” were placed in an extraordinary situation that forever changed these men’s lives. Browning’s novel focuses on the role of the German Order Police, more specifically Reserve Battalion 101, and how they played a small, yet significant role in carrying out Hitler’s
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in-depth details. According to idiographic approach, each person’s personality should be concerned with the understanding of his or her unique interpretations to reality (Grice). It is necessary to analyze the effectiveness of idiographic approach in comparison to the nomothetic approach. According to Allport, these two approaches overlap and complement each other (Allport, 1937). Idiographic approach is seen as a more complete and detailed understanding
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impossible to avoid crime in the media. On countless occasions, the Australian public have shown a rising perception rate of crime and have a particular fear of burglary, motor vehicle theft and robbery. However, this widely-held view is in stark contrast to actual rates of crime over the same period of time. The public's fear and perception of rising crime within Australia is strongly influenced by the media through a selective process of over-emphasising violence and crime in news reporting and
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