Match the correct definition to the key term. The theory proposed by nineteenth-century anthropologists that all cultures naturally evolve through the same sequence of stages from simple to complex. The idea, attributed to Franz Boas, that cultures develop in specific ways because of their unique histories. The focus of early British anthropological research whose structure and function could be isolated and studied scientifically. A conceptual framework positing that each element of society serves a particular function to keep the entire system in equilibrium. A conceptual framework that sees culture primarily as a symbolic system of deep meaning. A research strategy that combines detailed description of cultural activity with an analysis of the layers of deep cultural meaning in which those activities are embedded. a. interpretivist approach b. thick description c. society d. structural functionalism e. unilineal cultural evolution f. historical particularism