All cultures have rules for appropriate communication and interaction
Indicate whether the statement is true or false
TRUE
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Which statement is NOT true?
A. "Culture is a distinctive possession of humanity." B. "Culture is acquired by all humans as members of society through enculturation." C. "Culture encompasses shared, symbol-based, learned behavior and beliefs transmitted across generations." D. "Everyone is cultured." E. "Culture is transmitted genetically."
Mary Douglas, a symbolic anthropologist, has argued that which of the following explains Near Eastern food taboos such as the prohibition against eating pork?
a. Prohibited animals are those that violate cultural ideas about the order of creation. b. Any food will be tabooed when the cost of producing it outweighs its value (in calories or nutrients). c. Animals included in food taboos are always those that do not occur naturally in the geographic region of the taboo; either the animal never lived in the region, or they lived there once and are no extinct. d. Avoiding certain animals had to do with basic food content, not a continual affirmation of what constitutes God's order in the universe. e. people of Jewish and Islamic faiths think alike.
The process of socialization refers to
A) the process of changing national economies toward socialism. B) how people learn how to spend free time together. C) the process of sharing of goods and ideas among cultures. D) the ways by which children acquire the attitudes and skills of their cultures. E) the process of becoming civilized.
Archaeologists studying sunken ships off the coast of Florida or analyzing the content of modern garbage are examples of how
A. archaeology is free from having to worry about the impact of its work on people. B. archaeologists study the culture of historical and even living peoples. C. archaeology is going through an identity crisis, with its practitioners questioning the discipline's focus on studying prehistory. D. Hollywood has popularized archaeology in recent movies, making it a popular college major. E. training in the use of research skills for extreme environments-such as landfills and the deep sea-are worth the time, resources, and risk for the sake of the anthropological knowledge gained.