________ represents social status based on talents, actions, efforts, choices, and accomplishments
A. Ascribed status
B. Achieved status
C. Situational status
D. Negotiated status
E. Ethnicity
B
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The relatively high incidence of expanded family households among poorer North Americans is
A. an adaptation to poverty. B. the result of a patrilocal residence pattern. C. the result of bifurcate merging, a practice brought to the United States by Scotch-Irish immigrants during the early part of the twentieth century. D. the reason welfare in the United States is ineffective. E. maladaptive, since smaller families would have fewer expenses.
How does genetic analysis compare with linguistic analysis of New World migration patterns?
A) Genetic analysis puts the date of migration much earlier than that determined by linguistic research. B) Genetic analysis favors a seafaring migration pattern, whereas linguistic analysis favors the land-bridge model. C) Genetic analysis argues that the first settlers were European, whereas linguistic analysis claims the first settlers as Asian. D) Genetic analysis supports the three-wave model of migration proposed by linguistic research.
In which modern-day country do we find Tikal?
a. Mexico b. Honduras c. Belize d. Guatemala e. Costa Rica
In an article in the British science journal Nature, Dart argued that Taung was a hominin, based on __________
a. its generalized teeth b. the broad and short iliac blade of the pelvis c. the position of the foramen magnum d. the funnel-shaped thorax