The major difference between class and caste systems is that caste systems
a. are strongly and normatively exogamous.
b. are entirely based on inherited status, theoretically.
c. don't have norms and laws regulating contact between members of different castes.
d. encourage upward mobility.
ANSWER:
b
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a. only in food collecting societies. b. only in horticultural societies. c. only in pastoralist societies. d. only in industrial societies. e. in all types of societies.
Baruya women:
a. created new tools themselves and gave up horticulture. b. embraced new technology and became more productive. c. did not allow men to use steel axes for horticulture. d. rejected some steel tools in practice of horticulture.
Positivism and modernism are the same thing.
Answer the following statement(s) true (T) or false (F)
Which of the following is NOT associated with the market principle?
A. the law of supply and demand B. the profit motive C. kin-based generalized reciprocity D. impersonal economic relations E. industrialism