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- 13.1
- s this diversity through the lens of culture. To understand many contemporary issues, you need to understand culture and how culture influences how people think and act.... is strange for someone from another culture. * To understand someone's cultural system, we have to see it from... uals think, act and cooperate with each other. To understand why people live a certain way, we must look at ho
- further_information_about_this_unit
- ropology different from other social sciences. * Understand the key concepts with which anthropologists define society, social form, and social change. * Understand how anthropologists apply these key concepts to c... use it to develop your own argument in an essay. Understand why anthropologists reject simple, universal clai
- 1.1
- uals think, act and cooperate with each other. To understand why people live a certain way, we must look at ho... date some of anthropology's key ideas in order to understand contemporary societies. ## A guide to the unit
- 1.2
- nthropology's key concept - culture - helps us to understand what happens when different societies influence e... uals think, act and cooperate with each other. To understand why people live a certain way, we must look at ho
- 7.1
- ther words, anthropologists argue that you cannot understand life in the contemporary world by a **"from-to" s... ent types of society, and one can compare them to understand each better. ## Weber and modernity ## For Webe
- 3.1
- s of exchange in one society determine how people understand new ways of exchange. * Many societies opt for '
- 4.0
- asp the social rules and institutions in order to understand how a global order is created and maintained. #
- 5.1
- whelm it. This perspective has helped scholars to understand how capitalism has changed in the 20th century.
- 13.2
- temporary societies are all different, but we can understand them all as variations on the encounter of reci
- learning_structure_and_attendance
- u spend in class, the better you do, the more you understand, and the more fun the whole class is. We want you
- welcome_to_anthropology
- er people in distinct ways. Therefore, you cannot understand contemporary trends from a single culture's point
- what_we_do_in_class
- om class readings. That's how you know you really understand something. Lectures are important too. In lectu