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Anthropology is the study of human beings as creatures of society. It fastens its attention upon those physical characteristics and industrial techniques, those conventions and values, which distinguish one community from all others that belong to a different tradition.
The distinguishing mark of anthropology among the social sciences is that it includes for serious study more other societies than our own. For its purposes any social regulation of mating and reproduction is as significant as our own, though it may be that of the Sea Dyaks, and have no possible historical relation to that of our civilization. To the anthropologist, our customs and those of a New Guinea tribe are two possible social schemes for dealing with a common problem, arid in so far as he remains an anthropologist he is bound to avoid any weighting of one in favor of the other, lie is interested in human behavior, not as it is shaped by one tradition, our own, but as it has been
A. Human behavior.
B. Creatures of Society.
C. The Science of Custom.
D. The Functions of Cultures.
The process by means of which human beings arbitrarily make certain things stand for other things many be called the symbolic process.
Everywhere we turn, we see the symbolic process at work. There are (41) things men do or want to do, possess or want to possess, that have not a symbolic value.
Almost all fashionable clothes are (42) symbolic, so is food. We (43) our furniture to serve (44) visible symbols of our taste, wealth, and social position. We often choose our houses (45) the basis of a feeling that it "looks well" to have a "good address." We trade perfectly good cars in for (46) models not always to get better transportation, but to give (47) to the community that we can (48) it.
Such complicated and apparently (49) behavior leads philosophers to ask over and over again, "why can’t human beings (50) simply and naturally."
A. lead
B. devote
C. proceed
D. return
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