Each country has a unique culture, but all societies have ______.
A. subcultures
B. cultural universals
C. multiculturalism
D. high cultures
Answer: B
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Which of the following approaches argue that problems in politics and the economy can be remedied by repairing the specific elements of the system that are creating the problems?
a. power elite b. minimalist c. dialectical d. functionalist
In traditional agrarian America, the normative expectations for children and for adults were
a. clearly differentiated b. fairly well defined c. a and b d. totally confusing
Which one of the following questions do conflict theorists ask to highlight the problems with the functional perspective of social stratification?
a. How can we attract the best qualified people to fill the most functionally important positions? b. Will the most qualified people be attracted to the less functionally important occupations? c. How much inequality in salary is really necessary to ensure that people choose the most important positions in society? d. Why do the disadvantaged lack the motivation to acquire the training needed to fill the most important positions in society?
Epidemiologic transition is BEST defined as the
A. contribution of Americans' highly mobile life styles to making death less immediate and intimate. B. change in cultural attitudes toward death as a significant determinant of how we live our lives. C. trend toward more rapid and sudden death from epidemics. D. shift in disease patterns characterized by a redistribution of deaths from the young to the old.