Does industrialization increase or decrease social inequality? Support your answer

What will be an ideal response?


The ideal answer should include:
1, Association between features of social stratification and food production
2, Trend toward increasing inequality over past 8,000 years
3, Lenski's argument that highly industrialized societies are reversing the trend

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Which is by far the most common marital residence pattern (found in 67 percent of all societies) documented by anthropologists?

A) patrilocal B) matrilocal C) bilocal D) neolocal

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Using Excel, the manager of Quick Breaks Coffees has estimated the daily demand function for its regular coffees; the results are shown in the table above. Which of the following statements is correct?



A) The predicted values from the regression account for 95 percent of the variation in the actual data.
B) The predicted values from the regression account for 98 percent of the variation in the actual data.
C) The estimated regression has a very poor fit to the data.
D) The predicted values lie far from the actual values.

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If a monopolistically competitive firm is producing 30,000 units of output and at this output level, the price is $100 and the average total cost is $100, the firm profit/loss is equal to ________ and it ________ possible for the firm to be in long-run equilibrium.

A) $100; is B) -$100; is not C) $0; is D) $0; is not

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Art serves a very distinct emotional function

a. True b. False Indicate whether the statement is true or false

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