The domestic-public dichotomy
A. is significant because public activities often have greater prestige than domestic ones do.
B. tends to be more pronounced in foraging societies where gathering is the main subsistence activity.
C. is not significant in urban industrial societies.
D. is reinforced in American society by women working both inside and outside the home.
E. is not present in the industrial states of the Western world.
A
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