What were three factors found to enable wife abuse in rural Kentucky in the ethnographic research described in the text?
What will be an ideal response?
Answer: The ideal answer will include:
1. Physical isolation: Wives were often unable to travel or communicate with people outside the family.
2. Social isolation: Gender roles discourage women from working outside the home and men are dominant within the home.
3. Institutional isolation: Few social services for abused women were available, and there were few child-care options.
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A) being tasked with babysitting B) having a variety of chores C) playing with dolls D) having a large family
Boas called for a moratorium on theorizing
Indicate whether the statement is true or false.
On November 20, 2005, Federal Judge John Jones ruled in a case involving the attempt of the Dover Pennsylvania school board to introduce Intelligent Design into the biology curriculum that:
A. since the "designer" is not identified as God, Intelligent Design is not a religious concept B. Intelligent Design is a form of creationism and, being a religious concept, cannot be taught in the public schools as science C. in order to present all sides of an issue, Intelligent Design should be taught alongside evolution in the science classroom
Rites of passage involve three phases: separation, liminality, and totemism.
Answer the following statement true (T) or false (F)