The main function of money is to:

a. provide a purpose or role for the government in market exchange.
b. provide a standardized value used in exchange.
c. prevent the occurrence of negative reciprocity or theft.
d. make barter and other types of exchange less possible.


B

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a. the individual's willingness to participate. b. the interaction of all alleles. c. three primary genes. d. multiple interacting genes. e. the individual's mortality rate.

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__________ suggest that when the state relies more heavily on resources from taxpayers, the rulers must give the public more in return or else face noncompliance and rebellion

A) Collection action theorists B) Physical anthropologists C) Political scientists D) Economists

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Why might lower-class speakers continue to use styles of language that are stigmatized?

a. Styles of speech serve as a marker for membership into a group. b. They do not have the appropriate education to adopt upper-class patterns of language. c. They have never been exposed to standardized language, and so do not know that their speech is non-standard. d. Styles of speech are inherited, and cannot be changed by individuals.

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Anthropological research can be classified by its __________ and __________ scope

A) spatial; temporal B) temporal; ecological C) ecological; economic D) economic; spatial

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