Gender creates a significant barrier in some societies
a. True
b. False
ANSWER:
True
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In her study of homeless youth, Finklestein found that:
a. most homeless children never return home to their parents. b. they mostly came from wealthy families. c. most preferred a nomadic lifestyle. d. they had few friends and acquaintances. e. they were working diligently to stabilize their lives.
The domestic-public dichotomy
A. is significant because public activities often have greater prestige than domestic ones do. B. tends to be more pronounced in foraging societies where gathering is the main subsistence activity. C. is not significant in urban industrial societies. D. is reinforced in American society by women working both inside and outside the home. E. is not present in the industrial states of the Western world.
How do scientific accounts and creation stories differ from each other?
a. Evolution is true, and creation stories are not. b. Evolution, unlike creation stories, explains how life forms became diverse. c. Scientific accounts focus on testable ideas, and creation stories do not. d. Creation stories are based on religion, and scientific accounts are based on ideology. e. These two accounts do not differ from each other? they are simply two different stories.
What is pillage?
A) It is a process of stripping an area of money, goods, or raw materials through the threat or use of violence. B) It is the wholesale destruction of property and status through warfare. C) It is a process of building an infrastructure so that the colonizing nation can create economic opportunities for exploitation of natives. D) It is a perspective on colonialism that European powers had a "white man's burden" of helping natives. E) It is a kinship term that refers to the creation of fictive ties of relationships between colonizer and slave.