All of the following statements defining symbols are correct except:
a. Symbols are arbitrary
b. Symbols enter into every aspect of culture.
c. There is no necessary relationship between a thing and its representation.
d. Symbols have a single, unified meaning.
d
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The idea that human beings act toward things on the basis of the meanings they have for them is a tenet of
a. naive realism. b. explicit culture. c. tacit culture. d. symbolic interactionism.
In which of the following situations would you expect the speaker’s language to feature regular consonant-vowel alteration?
A) a culture living in a heavily forested environment B) a subculture restricted to only women C) an illiterate society with no formal educational system D) a society in which babies are held for most of the day
What are the different kinds of learning? On which kind (or kinds) of learning is culture based? How is culture transmitted across generations?
What will be an ideal response?
Females in most primate species have larger __________ than males
a. encephalization quotients b. brains c. bodies d. neurons