A society is considered stratified if:
a. there are equalities in terms of wealth, power, and prestige.
b. equality is primarily based on unequal access to productive resources.
c. there is a strong tendency toward the inheritance of rewards, regardless of personal merit.
d. All of these are true of stratified societies.
C
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a. no longer has importance. b. no longer provides close and emotional social ties as it did in the past. c. has become much more complex because of new reproductive technologies. d. systems remain unchanged through contact with external forces such as colonization and cultural diffusion. e. is a growing network that has become more and more vital to our ability to survive in the global economy.
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A. It rejects rules, geometric order, and austerity. B. It has a clear and functional design or structure. C. It draws on a diversity of styles from different times and places. D. It extends value well beyond classic, elite, Western cultural forms. E. The term originally referred to a style and movement in architecture.
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A) only monopolies and monopolistically competitive B) only monopolies and dominant firms C) only monopolistically competitive and dominant firms D) all three
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A. it is the study of the three-dimensional structure of all proteins encoded by a given genome B. it is the study of the evolutionary relationships among groups of organisms C. it is the study of the methods that can improve the inherited qualities of a species D. it is the study of the processes that control gene expression without changing the genetic code