Anthropologist George Murdock compiled a list of over seventy categories that included appearance (such as bodily adornment and hairstyles), activities (such as sports, dancing, games, joking, and visiting), social institutions (such as family, law, and religion), and customary practices (such as cooking, folklore, gift giving, and hospitality). These are all examples of:
a. symbols
b. beliefs
c. cultural universals
d. norms
c
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You want to conduct a survey of students in a large dormitory. The survey will involve intensive interviews with each person who participates, so it will not be practical to interview everyone
What would be the best way to select particular individuals to interview? (Assume that whoever you ask to participate will be willing to do so.) Explain what you would do and why to a person who is unfamiliar with research methods or statistics. What will be an ideal response?
Gunnar developed a scale to measure attitudes toward feminism. He discovered a pattern of responses among his items such that if he knew the scale score (the number of items someone agreed with), he could accurately predict which items that person agreed with. Which scale type did he use?
a. Thurstone scaling b. Likert scaling c. semantic differential d. Guttman scaling e. Bogardus social distance scale
The annual number of live births per 1,000 women aged 15 to 44 is known as the ____
a. maturity rate b. fecundity rate c. crude birthrate d. cohort fertility e. fertility rate
Zero-sum games:
A. are helpful in relationships because both partners must cooperate in order to keep the sum at zero. B. are dangerous in relationships because the same person always wins. C. are helpful in relationships because neither partner wins nor loses. D. are dangerous in relationships because there is always a winner and a loser.