| Term | Definition |
|---|
| cultural cohesion | organized social behavior that links individuals to the same society |
| cultural complexes | several aspects of culture hooked together, e.g. art + religion |
| cultural integration | various aspects of a culture linked together, e.g. laws based on beliefs |
| phoneme | basic structural unit used to distinguish words |
| morpheme | smallest unit sound |
| Edward Taylor | cultural evolutionist, believed civilization progresses |
| deMaistre | followed cultural evolution school of though, believed civilization regresses |
| Lewis Henry - Morgan | studied cultural evolution, founded the kinship system |
| German Austrian School of Thought (Kultkriese) | diffusion takes place over great distances |
| Franz-Boas | began field work |
| Malinowski | began participant observation |
| Radcliff-Brown | studies society as a whole not just individuals |
| Mead | three tribes in New Guinea, Cultural Personality |
| Ruth Benedict | studied Cultural Personality |
| White | studied neo evolution specifically universal evolution |
| Steward | studied neo evolutionism specifically multilinear evolution, father of cultural/human ecology |
| cultural/human ecology | the relationship between humans and the environment |
| cognitive anthropology | studies how a culture sees the world through language |
| structural anthropology | how a culture structures their world through language |
| Strauss | structural anthropology |
| syntactic system | word order |
| neo evolutionism | culture change |
| phonological system | sounds of words |
| semantic system | system of word meanings |
Combine with other sets
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