What widespread characteristics might we expect to find associated with the idea of maleness cross-culturally?
What will be an ideal response?
Concepts of skill, endurance, and power (especially prestige) are found very widely across cultures in their definition of maleness. It may be linked to biology, but there is no culture in which prestige is not an issue for males.
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A group of people without a common culture who are stranded together for a month on a desert island and who learn to work together for survival while they are there, may be said to constitute a society
a. True b. False Indicate whether the statement is true or false
What term refers to the different symbol-based patterns and traditions associated with particular groups within the same complex society?
A. Subcultures B. Globalization C. Diffusion D. Hypodescent E. Pidgins
Which of the following is NOT discussed in this chapter as a probable cause of the anatomical variety found in australopith fossils?
A. age differences B. differences in natural selective forces operating in specific environments C. the poor condition of the fossils D. sex differences E. the long time span within which they existed
Those scientists who focus on the variation in the fossil record, interpreting minor differences as evidence of distinct biological species, are known as:
a. lumpers. b. casters. c. splitters. d. separators. e. divergences.