What does key question mean?

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  • Role of anthropologists to show differences are only on surface . Structuralism.
  • Surface structure
    Easily observed variations.
  • Deep structure

    How people behave- universal
  • All people have same human needs and emotions (biopsychological functionalism). All can experience, hunger, pain, stress, happiness, etc.
  • Marxists argue all societies have hierarchies whereby structural forces exploit disadvantaged groups (structural violence)
  • Feminists argue women in all societies are exploited by men
  • There are deep cultural differences (language, religion etc) which affect sense of 'self' and shared cultural 'truths'. Different habitus is formed over cultural experience (structural functionalism) Symbolism explains differences