Glossary - F
fatalism: belief that one’s fate is pre-determined or pre-destined and humans are powerless to change their fate.
feminism: primarily social and intellectual movement that strives for equality of the sexes, typically through the removal of women’s oppression.
fieldwork: term generally used to indicate work conducted away from one’s home-base; for anthropologists, this usually involves the method of participant observation.
functionalism: theoretical approach in the social sciences which is centered on revealing the interdependent roles played by facets within a society or culture and how these operate (i.e., their function) in maintaining the character of the whole.
fundamentalism: religious orientation grounded in an attempt to return to fundamental or core beliefs and practices in a tradition; often associated with rigid, literal, and narrow interpretations based on readings of primary scriptures.
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