One critical economic difference between a firm and a household is:
a. Firms look for profit in their cash transactions, households rarely do.
b. Firms have no obligations to the communities in which they are found; households have many.
c. Firms may grow with relative ease, but the structure of households limits their growth.
d. Firms may expand their size through hiring new members but the membership of a household is fixed.
e. Firms usually behave in a manner that is economically rational, households rarely do.
C
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A. a village council B. a pantribal sodality that represents a certain level of achievement in the society, much like the stages of an undergraduate's progress through college C. all men and women related by virtue of patrilineal descent from a human apical ancestor D. all men and women related by virtue of matrilineal descent from a nonhuman apical ancestor E. a group uniting men born during a certain span of time in some pastoral African societies
Applied anthropologist Elizabeth Krause, in her study of the family in Italy, found that:
a. the birthrate has dropped below the replacement rate to sustain the national population. b. children born out of wedlock are now the most numerous family type. c. the extended family in Italy is declining slowly and will soon disappear. d. the childhood mortality rate is now at .005 percent. e. Italian couples are not forming typical families and do not choose to have children.
Primary states are states that formed on their own, rather than as a result of contact with other state societies.
Answer the following statement true (T) or false (F)
Applied anthropology
A. has yet to be recognized by the American Anthropological Association. B. is a European phenomenon. C. encompasses any use of the knowledge and/or techniques of its four subfields to identify, assess, and solve practical problems. D. focuses on preparing emerging academic scholars to improve their grant application skills. E. originated at the same time that anthropology's four-field approach became established among early-twentieth-century U.S. academics.