Name three distinctions between a household and a firm
What will be an ideal response?
Firms can easily expand or contract; households cannot. Individuals are usually tied to a firm by labor and tied to a household by kinship. Households produce goods for consumption by members; firms produces goods for profit. Firms usually wish to increase their size indefinitely; households cannot do this.
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The domestic-public dichotomy
A. is significant because public activities often have greater prestige than domestic ones do. B. tends to be more pronounced in foraging societies where gathering is the main subsistence activity. C. is not significant in urban industrial societies. D. is reinforced in American society by women working both inside and outside the home. E. is not present in the industrial states of the Western world.
The Vicos Project was focused on:
a. creating agrarian reforms at the level of a hacienda landholding unit in Peru. b. changing political structure among the Toraja in Indonesia. c. changing agricultural technology in Bali on wet-rice paddies. d. helping re-settle those San hunters who had fought in the war of independence.
Thus far, what do the postcranial remains of the Dmanisi hominins indicate?
a. They are significantly more robust than other Homo erectus. b. The first hominins to leave Africa were possibly a very early form of H. erectus. c. They are not bipeds. d. They are indistinguishable from Homo sapiens. e. They are much more similar to modern humans than to Homo erectus.
Herders are able to live in very difficult terrain because
a. they have developed more sophisticated cultivation practices than horticulturalists. b. their herds can eat vegetation that humans cannot digest, and turn it into milk and meat. c. they are extremely isolationist and prefer living in areas with very small populations. d. None of these; herders do not live in difficult environments.