What is the general term for a marriage in which an individual can have several husbands or wives at the same time?

A. polygyny
B. monogamy
C. polyandry
D. polygamy


Answer: D

Sociology

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Ian won't stop pestering his mother for a cookie before dinner. Finally in exasperation, she turns to him and says "No, and that's final!" because that was the way her own mother used to stop children's whining

Ian's mom used this phrase in this manner because of A. dynamic communication. B. gendered communication. C. multigenerational patterns of communication. D. inherited communication.

Sociology

Which of these is MOST is associated with social movement success?

a. a focus on novel and engaging values and issues b. sufficient resources c. general and nonspecific goals d. using the use of threats or coercion

Sociology

Colonizing powers use language to fix the meaning of the colonized “Other.” how do colonizing powers use texts—the written word—to simplify complex civilizations, to erase the existence of a rich cultural heritage, and to deny the humanity of a population as part of the effort to legitimate the subjugation of those nations they seek to control? Such efforts demand that a population be torn from its history in order to create a new future—a future literally written by the West. Colonization is premised on the notion that the colonized Other is inherently inferior, weak, and evil. For colonized groups, or those who have won political independence from colonial rule, the question remains as to how they can shed their identity as an inferior Other.

What will be an ideal response?

Sociology

When a society excludes women from institutions in that society, it is practicing

A. religious sexism. B. theological patriarchy. C. economic segregation. D. gender apartheid.

Sociology