Ideas and behaviors so deeply embedded in a culture that they are regarded as universally normal or natural are ____________

a. norms
b. cultural cores
c. symbolic systems
d. naturalized concepts


Answer: d

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a. Clans often own or control land or other forms of property. b. Clans are subdivided into a number of different lineages. c. Clans are generally absent of totemic beliefs. d. Not all members of a clan can state how they are related to one another.

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Unlike foragers, horticulturists usually

a. are not sedentary. b. have ownership rights held by kin groups over specific parcels of land. c. have use rights over land rather than ownership. d. have use rights over resources rather than land.

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Through what means do people attempt to mechanistically control supernatural forces?

A) Divination B) Ritual C) Magic D) Trances E) Fundamentalism

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In a(n) ________, most leaders will acquire their positions because of their personal backgrounds or abilities through achieved status, rather than heredity or ascribed status.

a. tribal society b. feudal state c. imagined community d. chiefdom e. agrarian, preindustrial stat

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