What term refers to wealth or resources invested in business with the intent of producing a profit?

A. the modern world system
B. industrialization
C. an open class system
D. socioeconomic stratification
E. capital


Answer: E

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Although the Iroquois traded beaver skins and other furs to the French, they refused to accept guns, ammunition, and liquor as payment

Indicate whether the statement is true or false.

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Ethnographic evidence has revealed that traditionally, Pawnee women worked wood, and among the Hidatsa, women made boats. Cases such as these suggest that

A. the division of labor by gender is a natural characteristic of human societies. B. biology has nothing to do with gender roles. C. anthropologists are overly optimistic about finding a society with perfect gender equality. D. patterns of division of labor by gender are culturally general—not universal. E. exceptions to cross-cultural generalization are actually the rule.

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In general, societies with the patrilineal-patrilocal complex are NOT characterized by

A. scarce resources. B. increased inter-village warfare. C. a strongly developed domestic-public dichotomy. D. inheritance of land and prestige through female lines. E. male control of prestige goods.

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In a balanced polymorphism, __________ prevents any of the alternative phenotypes from going to fixation or being lost

a. random forces b. genetic drift c. cultural practices d. natural selection

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