The field that investigates the relationships between social and linguistic variation is
A) medical anthropology.
B) physical anthropology.
C) ethnology.
D) sociolinguistics.
E) applied anthropology.
Answer: D) sociolinguistics.
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Which of the following is a difference between Hopi and English? a. Hopi can express that the event talked about is a regular thing that generally occurs
b. English primarily structures thinking and behavior with a focus on the present. c. Hopi does not have verbs. d. Hopi apply numbers to time but not to counting.
What is the primary critique against functionalism today as a theoretical approach?
a. ?The idea of a perfectly integrated and functional culture in a context of globalization is no longer as relevant. b. ?The approach that culture has function is no longer relevant as culture is something that is optional in our global world. c. ?The functional approach was based solely on indigenous societies and has no relevance at all to any urban societies. d. ?Functionalism is criticized today for its evolutionary approach classifying societies as more or less advanced.
Which of the following statements about self-awareness is incorrect?
a. Self-awareness occurs earlier in children as a function of the amount of social stimulation they receive. b. At 15 weeks of age, the home-reared infant in North America is in contact with its mother for about 20% of the time. c. At 15 weeks of age, infants in the Ju/’hoansi society of South Africa’s Kalahari Desert are in close contact with their mothers about 70% of the time. d. American children develop self-awareness earlier than do Ju/’hoansi children. e. Self-awareness comes in stages and not all at once.
Primatology is the study of
a. human evolution. b. human skeletal material. c. skeletal remains at crime scenes. d. disease in earlier human groups. e. the biology and behavior of nonhuman primates.