Edward B. Tylor and other eighteenth-century thinkers asserted that "primitives" around the world would eventually evolve through the stages of barbarism to become civilized like Europeans, but that these "primitives"
would need some help from the civilized world to reach this ultimate, ideal stage. This perception that Western society is the center of the civilized world and that non-Western societies are inherently inferior is called __________.
A. logical negativism
B. logical positivism
C. ethnocentrism
D. devolution
Answer: C
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A) the availability of technology. B) the extent of grazing rights shared among all people. C) herd growth. D) agricultural crops. E) global markets.
All of the following are true about neoliberalism EXCEPT that it
A. seeks to control costs by lowering wage expenses. B. characterizes the type of policies designed by powerful international financial institutions. C. has been spreading globally. D. refers to a recent revival of economic liberalism. E. is characterized by the policy that environmental protection and job safety are too important to be left unregulated.
According to the Foner and Kasinitz reading (“The Second Generation,” assigned for the Second Generation Immigrant Minorities class), the experiences of different generations of immigrant descendants before the mid-20th century and today are quite similar
a. true b. false
Peasants in an agricultural society do NOT _____
a. have an important relationship with the cities b. almost always occupy the lowest strata of a society c. provide for most of the dietary needs of the city-dwellers d. have a great deal of political power e. pay rents and taxes to those with greater power