_____________ suggests that the universal incest taboo exists to protect human genetic fitness; the offspring of close relatives tend to have genetic problems
A. Functionalism
B. Conflict theory
C. Symbolic interactionism
D. None of these
A
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The concept "political economy" refers to
a. any system in which people are unequal. b. the interplay of politics and economics. c. democratic political systems. d. the most efficient form of government.
Answer the following statement(s) true (T) or false (F)
1. Today in western nations, there are more women than men in both college and graduate school. 2. Benevolent sexism means covert words or behaviors that express a denigration of women and ensure their continued inferiority. 3. Men who endorse gender role stereotypes are surprisingly less likely to engage in sexual harassment in the workplace. 4. Many women in companies with token hires in leadership positions are more likely to endorse the belief that if a woman only works hard enough, she can also reach high levels of success in the company.
Institutional discrimination is __________
A) found in tracking in education and the system of school funding based on property taxes B) an example of a deficiency theory C) the same as the culture-of-poverty hypothesis D) what occurs when the poor have brought poverty on themselves
Answer the following statement(s) true (T) or false (F)
1.Even in the least-developed societies, power relationships emerge for the purposes of maintaining order, organizing economic enterprise, conducting offensive and defensive warfare, and ruling over subject peoples. 2.Family is traditionally defined as a residential kin group. Typically, family consists of only an adult female and her dependent children. 3.The habitual association of human beings in communities or local groups generally leads to the introduction of some form of a more formal political organization where power is exercised. 4.Archaeology studies human cultures through their physical and material remains to analyze the behaviors of past cultures. Through the analysis of something as simple as pottery remain, anthropologists are not likely to learn much about a society. 5.The culture of any society represents generalizations about the behavior of many members of that society, and it can describe the personal habits of any one individual.