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
b. false
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Which concept in our own society is most similar to the idea of mana?
A) luck B) purity C) charity D) wealth
In an example of applied anthropology's contribution to improving education, this chapter describes a study of Puerto Rican seventh graders in a Midwestern U.S. urban school (Hill-Burnett, 1978). What did anthropologists discover in this study?
A. Puerto Ricans do not benefit from bilingual education. B. Puerto Rican students came from a background that placed less value on education than did that of white students. C. The Puerto Rican subjects benefited from the English-as-a-foreign-language program. D. The parents of Puerto Rican students did not value achievement. E. The Puerto Rican students' education was being affected by their teachers' misconceptions.
Compare and contrast the various mechanisms of cultural change.
What will be an ideal response?
A confederacy is defined as a __________
A) loose alliance of bands B) temporary alliance of tribes C) formal alliance of chiefdoms D) larger state formed from semi-autonomous individual states