ks5 social & cultural anthropology
Topics / Units
- Introduction to SCA
Core Declarative Knowledge
What should students know?
- The structure of the IB course
- The 6 big questions and 9 big concepts
- What is anthropology?
- How culture is defined
- What constitutes culture?
- What feminist anthropological theory is
- How is personhood defined?
- How a range of other cultures see personhood
- The definition of a society
- The importance of the Industrial Revolution in defining Western societies
- The importance of norms and values
- Differences between humans and animals
- The importance of anthropology in understanding others and the world around us
- The meaning of epistemology
- The main research methods in anthropology, their use, strengths and weaknesses
- The ethical guidelines followed in the study of Anthropology
- The important theories used in Anthropology
Core Procedural Knowledge
What should students be able to do?
- How to apply concepts of culture to a people
- How to apply an anthropological theory to a people
- How to compare two different cultures and their ideas of personhood
- How to research and compare a different society
- How to explain the cause of differences between societies
- Applying ideas of similarity and difference to a specific group
- How to analyse a different society’s concept of truth
- To analyse an ethnographic extract on a people using the 6 big anthropological questions
- How to apply research methods
- How to apply the ethical guidelines to an ethnographic extract
Links to TOK
- How can we know other people?
- How do beliefs and interests of human scientists influence their research?
- Is the role of the anthropologist to observe or also to make judgements?
Links to Assessment
- Using the extracts and your own knowlege, discuss the defining principles of Anthropological ethics.
- What does it mean to live in a society? Discuss with reference to the ethnographic material
Topics / Units
- Introduction to SCA/ Area of Study One – Conflict
Core Declarative Knowledge
What should students know?
- Revisiting the big nine concepts
- The inquiry specific concepts that relate to conflict
- Definitions of the state, indigenous issues, systems of inequality
- Describe systems of inequality in South Africa
- Identify key features of Puerto Rican migration to the USA
- Describe a range of indigenous issues
- Identify key features of colonialism
- Describe the effect of the Gulf War on those who fought
- Define Cultural Capital
Core Procedural Knowledge
What should students be able to do?
- Apply ideas of functionalism to an ethnography
- Apply ethical guidelines to an ethnography
- Compare inequality in South Africa and the USA
- Applying ideas of Marxism and Ecological Anthropology to an ethnography
- Compare issues of violence and suffering in two ethnographies
- Apply the ideas of cultural capital to characters in an ethnography
Links to TOK
- To what extent are the methods used in the human sciences limited by ethical considerations?
- Is it possible to eliminate the effect of the observer?
Links to Assessment
- With reference to the concepts, theories and ethnographic material, explain how the concept of conflict is evident in In Search of Respect.
- Describe how identity is constructed In Search of Respect
Topics / Units
- Area of Inquiry One – Conflict
Core Declarative Knowledge
What should students know?
- Identify and explain the role of the state in people’s lives
- Define human rights and ethnic cleansing
- Define identity and how it is formed
- Describe barriers to education in El Barrio
- Explore attitudes to sexual violence in In Search of Respect
- Identify and describe rites of passage
- Describe womens rights movements in a range of countries
- Describe attitudes to childhood in In Search of Respect
- Identify and explain the concept of Hegemony in In Search of Respect
- Describe the ‘crisis of masculinity’
Core Procedural Knowledge
What should students be able to do?
- Apply ideas of human rights and ethnic cleansing to the Rohinga people of Burma
- Compare conflict in the Bosnian-Serbian war to In Search of Respect
- Compare breaches of human rights in In Search of Respect and Fresh Fruit
- Broken Bodies
- Explain changing gender roles and perceptions in In Search of Respect
- Compare attitudes to women in Wayward Women and In Search of Respect
- Explain the differences in beliefs and knowledge of different social groups
- Analyse domestic violence from a range of theoretical viewpoints
Links to TOK
- Are ideas of human rights universal?
- Can research in anthropology ever be neutral when the observer is emotionally involved?
Links to Assessment
- Compare and contrast the way in which the concept of conflict is evident in the extract with how it is evident in In Search of Respect.
Topics / Units
- Area of Inquiry Two – The Body
Core Declarative Knowledge
What should students know?
- Identify and define key and inquiry-specific concepts related to The Body
- Define the meaning of the Commodified Body
- Explain the concept of habitus
- Define and describe Mehcanised Bodies and the Lived Body
- Explain the link between consumerism and The Body
Core Procedural Knowledge
What should students be able to do?
- Analyse how the concept of identity is linked to The Body
- Compare identity in Pretty Modern to identity in In Search of Respect
- Compare representations of Commodified Bodies in Pretty Modern to Wayward Women
- Analyse the ethics involved in anthropological research into commodified bodies
Links to TOK
- Why does it matter how other countries are represented?
Topics / Units
- Area of Inquiry Two – The Body
Core Declarative Knowledge
What should students know?
- Describe changes in Brazilian racial politics
- Discuss ideas of personhood
- Define the Modified Body
- Describe changes in Brazilian ideas of beauty
- Describe the embodiment of racial pride through hair
- Define the Ritualised Body with examples
- Define Marginalised Bodies with examples
- Describe aesthetic medicine and how it links to motherhood
- Define the Politicised Body
- Describe the Brazilian idea of vanity
Core Procedural Knowledge
What should students be able to do?
- Compare modification in Pretty Modern to Yakuza Tattoo
- Apply subject-specific concepts to Women and their Hair
- Apply anthropological theory to the concept of commodification
- Analyse ethical considerations in Pretty Modern
- Make comparisons between marginalised bodies in Pretty Modern and In Search of Respect
- Compare Rites of Passage in Pretty Modern to In Search of Respect
- Compare Politicised Bodies in Pretty Modern and Fresh Fruit Broken Bodies
- Apply anthropological theory to the Politicised Body
Links to TOK
- How does the way we organise or classify knowledge affect what we know (link to anthro theories)?
Links to Assessment
- Mock Examination