Structural functionalism is a theory that focuses on social stratification
a. True
b. False
Indicate whether the statement is true or false
False
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Which of the following correctly characterizes Dalva, one of the informants in Mary Kenny's study of the favela of Olinda?
a. Like many other children, she will use her formal schooling to escape conditions of poverty. b. A victim of child abuse, she will most likely have to spend the rest of her life in an institution. c. Although her family is poor, she receives strong support from her parents, particularly her mother. d. She works 12 hours a day sewing shirts for American corporations but barely makes enough money to feed herself, let alone her brothers and sisters. e. Although only 12, by organizing younger children and generating income, she has become the head of her household.
The two strands of a chromosome are joined at a constricted region called the
a. autosome. b. ribosome. c. centromere. d. nucleotide. e. cytoplasm.
Edward B. Tylor and other eighteenth-century thinkers asserted that "primitives" around the world would eventually evolve through the stages of barbarism to become civilized like Europeans,
but that these "primitives" would need some help from the civilized world to reach this ultimate, ideal stage. This perception that Western society is the center of the civilized world and that non-Western societies are inherently inferior is called __________. A. logical negativism B. logical positivism C. ethnocentrism D. devolution
The surplus of women among the Kapauku is due to:
a. loss of males through warfare b. unbalanced sex ratio at birth c. trading for women with neighboring groups d. in-migration to the area