What type of society engages in large-scale farming based on the use of plows drawn by animals or more powerful energy sources?
a. Hunting and gathering
b. Horticultural
c. Pastoral
d. Agrarian
Answer: d
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In terms of Social Security, since 1940,
a. men collect payments about 3 years longer and women about 5 years longer. b. taxes on workers have gone up each year to cover the future costs of the program. c. people increasingly rely on personal savings and not on Social Security as their main form of income. d. the government has continuously increased the benefits paid from the program to all older adults.
Sanctions are defined as
A. penalties and rewards for conduct concerning a social norm. B. justifications for deviant behavior. C. rules made by a government. D. a loss of direction when the social control of individual behavior has become ineffective.
In working with leukemic children ages three to nine, anthropologist Myra Bluebond-Langner concluded
a. that these children were generally unaware of their dying condition. b. that these children seemed to know they were dying but felt this was a reversible process. c. that age was not as important in the children’s self-awareness of their dying as was their experience with the disease and its treatment. d. both b and c. e. None of the above.
The underlying assumption of the sociologist is that things are not as they seem
a. true b. false