Diploma del Bachillerato Internacional · IB Diploma
Social and Cultural Anthropology · HL
Papers, samples and curriculum documents for this course. · Papeles, muestras y documentos curriculares para este curso.
Course units and learning goals · Unidades del curso y objetivos de aprendizaje
These lessons teach selected course objectives. Check the remaining coverage gaps; the material is not a complete preparation programme. · Estas lecciones enseñan objetivos del curso seleccionados. Revisa los vacíos de cobertura restantes; el material no es un programa completo de preparación.
Engaging with anthropology · Concepts, culture and reflexivity
- Distinguish emic and etic interpretations
- Use concepts to analyse ethnographic evidence and reflect on the observer
- emic
- Understanding social life through participants' meanings.
- reflexivity
- Examining how the researcher's position influences knowledge.
Inquiry groups 1–3 · Reading and comparing ethnographies
- Connect a key concept, inquiry area and contemporary issue
- Compare ethnographic arguments with attention to context, method and ethics
- ethnography
- A research-based account and analysis of social life.
- reciprocity
- Exchange understood through ongoing social obligations.
Anthropological practice · Ethical fieldwork and analysis
- Design a focused observation with consent and privacy
- Separate description, interpretation and critical reflection in SL limited fieldwork or HL inquiry
- fieldwork
- Research conducted in the social setting being studied.
- informed consent
- Voluntary agreement based on understanding the research.
HL extension · Theory and competing interpretations
- Apply and evaluate anthropological theories
- Compare interpretations using ethnographic evidence and researcher position
- theory · teoría
- An explanatory framework used to interpret evidence.
- power · potencia
- Capacity to influence actions, relationships or outcomes.
Preparing for this qualification · Preparación para esta cualificación
- SL: unseen-text Paper 1 90 min 40%, ethnography Paper 2 90 min 40%, limited fieldwork 20%. HL: Paper 1 120 min 30%, Paper 2 150 min 45%, fieldwork 25%.
- Select one inquiry area from each of three groups at SL; HL adds a fourth and theory extension. Teacher selects real ethnographies; classroom vignettes below are original teaching cases, not ethnographic publications.
Teaching coverage still needed · Cobertura docente aún necesaria
- School-selected ethnographies and three/four inquiry areas need complete teaching, source-based practice and full-guide theory/fieldwork verification.
- Reviewed runtime bank remains unavailable; no practice registry promotion.
Specifications and sample documents · Especificaciones y documentos de muestra
- Social and Cultural Anthropology — Subject brief · 2019 ↗
First assessment: 2019
Course materials · Materiales del curso
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Course preparation · Preparación del curso
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