Which of the following statements is FALSE?
a. All cultures are adaptive.
b. Culture gives humans an adaptive advantage over other animals.
c. What is adaptive in one culture may be maladaptive in another.
d. Sometimes cultural behaviors are adaptively neutral.
e. Cultural adaptation is quicker than biological adaptation.
a
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a. Physical anthropology b. Cultural anthropology c. Anthropological linguistics d. Ethological anthropology e. Archaeology
The rule-governed relationships that hold a society together, with all their rights, duties, and obligations, are known as its:
a. constitution. b. social structure. c. cultural relativism. d. laws. e. ethnocentrism.
A division of labor by gender is found only in foraging and horticultural societies
a. True b. False Indicate whether the statement is true or false
According to Bourgois in "Poverty at Work: Office Work and the Crack Alternative," second generation Puerto Rican men failed at entry-level service sector jobs because
a. they were discriminated against by Anglo supervisors. b. they tried to unionize their places of employment. c. most dealt drugs at their workplace. d. the way they looked and walked often frightened middle-class Anglos on the job.