Which of the following statements is true of caste system?
A) ?In a caste system, people's social positions are based on individual achievement.
B) ?In a caste system, people can easily move from one caste to another.
C) ?A caste system has a relatively open stratification structure.
D) ?A caste system encourages marriages outside one's caste.
E) ?In a caste system, social positions are ascribed at birth.
E
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Figure the mean, median, mode, variance, and standard deviation for this group of scores. Explain what you have done and what the results mean to a person who has never had a course in statistics. What will be an ideal response?
Marcus says that it is important for women to stay home and take care of the children because raising children is very important and women are better at doing it. Marcus would probably best be described as:
a. an anarchist. b. a conflict theorist. c. a structural-functionalist. d. a symbolic interactionist.
Which of the following is a basic process of social control?
a. internalization of group norms b. externalization of societal rules c. internal pressures in the form of sanctions from others d. amalgamation
What dimension of assimilation involves change in self-identity?
a. Cultural assimilation b. Structural assimilation c. Biological assimilation d. Psychological assimilation