Author Question: One of the ways in which anthropologists study culture is through an ideational perspective. An ... (Read 188 times)

lak · **on:** Jul 20, 2018

One of the ways in which anthropologists study culture is through an ideational perspective. An ideational perspective:

a. Focuses on ideas, symbols, and mental structures as driving forces in shaping human behavior.
b. Emphasizes technology, ecology, demography, and economics as driving forces in shaping human behavior.
c. Argues that while human behavior is definitely shaped by ideas, symbols, and mental structures, it is equally shaped by technology, ecology, demography, and economics.
d. Argues that the forces shaping human behavior are largely unknowable; therefore any perspective is just as good as another.
e. Does not get inside another one's head.

Question 2

Which of the following is not true of a person's culture?

a. It is learned.
b. It is shared.
c. It is symbolic.
d. It is biologically controlled.
e. It provides a way to interpret human behavior and the world.