If something is ________ then it is influenced by one's individual senses.  

The period of modernity was characterized by the idea that all elements of life could be understood through _________. 

The scientific method relies on empirical evidence. 

___________ evidence is evidence based on demonstrable evidence outside of individual perception.

Match the term to its definition: Modernism

Match the term to its definition: Post-modernism

Match the term to its definition: Empirical

Match the term to its definition: Subjective

Match the term to its definition: Objective

When a social construct becomes so deeply engrained and powerful in a society that we forget about its origins, we endow the construct with the power of seeming ____________. This often gives the construct the power of seeming obvious, inevitable, and unchangeable.

Which of the following is not a social construct? 

The events in popular culture known as "the dress" and "laurel/yanny" demonstrate that sight and sound is ___________ .

Anthropologist Clifford Geertz argued that cultural anthropology should incorporate ____________ which is the written description of the meaning behind a cultural practice, or, the "layers of meaning." 

Clifford Geertz argued that anthropologists need to engage in ______ the study of meaning-making.

Geertz also reminds anthropologists to approach the study of culture symbolically and to the cultural practices like one would interpret a language.

Geertz highlights the fact that we can never actually study all human beings and are only be able to study a sampling of any community that we are working with.

Similarly, we must remember that we can only ever examine behaviors as we can never witness what people do in complete privacy.

When practicing the scientific method, scientists first _____ the world around them. Then, scientists develop a ______ that can be tested in order to gain more information about the natural world. Then, scientists ______ the hypothesis using multiple, diverse tests and seek to identify an enormous body of empirical evidence. Finally, scientists come to some kind of _______ about their observations and tests.