Which is the key assumption in Claude Lvi-Strauss's structuralism?
A. All myths can be classified as either good or evil.
B. The human propensity to classify phenomena in certain ways is acquired through enculturation.
C. There is a very specific role for human agency in culture, and the structure of cultural patterns determines that role.
D. Cultural patterns determine the human propensity to classify things in certain ways.
E. Human minds have certain universal characteristics that originate in common features of the Homo sapiens brain and lead people everywhere to think similarly regardless of their society or cultural background.
Question 2
Interpretive anthropologists such as Clifford Geertz approach the study of culture as
A. a diachronic phenomenon.
B. functional puzzles.
C. a system of meaning.
D. underlying sets of rules that must be deciphered through the analysis of cultural patterns.
E. distinct from human psychology.
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Marine myths measured
Claude Monet, Bridge over a Pool of Water Lilies.
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Society: Myths and Realities, An Introduction to Sociology
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