Author Question: G. Elliot Smith and William J. Perry, major figures associated with the school of British ... (Read 53 times)

krzymel · **on:** Aug 11, 2018

G. Elliot Smith and William J. Perry, major figures associated with the school of British diffusionism in the early twentieth century, proposed that __________.

A. each culture has a key personality type
B. a culture can only be interpreted in the context of its own historical development
C. culture's principal function is establishing institutions to guide behavior
D. all aspects of civilization derived from the culture of ancient Egypt

Question 2

In order for diffusionism to work as envisioned by the British and German schools, adherents had to maintain that __________.

A. some peoples were not sufficiently innovative to develop their own cultural traits
B. Western and non-Western peoples were inherently equal
C. the cultural traits that were diffused were part of the technological dimension of the society
D. cultural traits in the same geographical region did not inevitably spread from one society to another