People must eat, but culture teaches us what, when, and how to do so. This is an example of how
A. individuals are powerless to alter the strong relationship between nature and culture.
B. "human nature" is a cultural construction, an idea we have in our minds that has nothing to do with true nature.
C. culture takes the natural biological urges we share with other animals and teaches us how to express them in particular ways.
D. biology dominates culture.
E. we are all just uncultured animals.
Answer: C
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Which of the following is an example patrilineal descent?
a. A man leaves all of his property to his eldest grandson. b. a woman leaves all of her property to her eldest grandson. c. A man leaves all of his property to his youngest daughter. d. A woman leaves all of her property to her youngest daughter.
Practice theory
A. explains social phenomena only in nonindustrial societies. B. actually shares the same deterministic assumptions of earlier theoretical paradigms. C. was popularized by Margaret Mead in the 1940s. D. focuses on how individuals, through their actions and practices, influence and transform the world they live in. E. is the only theoretical paradigm to effectively solve the "culture-individual" problem.
Darwin argued that the large physical size of males was a physical specialization to aid in competition between males for females. He called this theory:
a. sexual selection. b. natural selection. c. hybrid selection. d. reproductive selection. e. intra-species competitive selection.
Which of the following does not describe the biological theory of sexuality?
a. ?Response to physical stimulus b. ?Learned c. ?Product of biology d. ?Instinctual