What is the basic difference between the terms age set and age grade?

What will be an ideal response?


An age grade is a category and an age set is a specific group of people who share strong feelings of loyalty and distinction.

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Multiple biological traits:

a. do not lead to clear-cut racial classifications. b. are race specific. c. help with biological profiling. d. do not exist in humans.

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Court systems in which the sanctions imposed are designed more to restore harmonious relations between parties than to punish are called:

a. courts of mediation. b. courts of codification. c. courts of formalization. d. courts of regulation.

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Leslie White attempted to explain cultural evolution in terms of

A) demography. B) biology. C) energy capture. D) ideology. E) diffusion.

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Because populations are genetically open:

a. there are no barriers, cultural or biological, to human reproduction b. there is no such thing as biological variation c. there are few fixed racial groups d. there are no fixed racial groups

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