A form of society in which there are a fixed number of statuses that carry prestige, and only certain individuals are eligible to attain these statuses, is called:
a. egalitarian.
b. ranked.
c. stratified.
d. caste.
B
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A. patriotism. B. ethnocentrism. C. moral relativism. D. cultural relativism. E. illiteracy.
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Answer the following statement true (T) or false (F)
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This chapter mentions the work of Wolf and Mintz, both students of Julian Steward, as illustrations of approaches that
A. put human agency at the center of cultural analysis. B. focus on the study of cultures as closed systems, untouched by regional and even global dynamics. C. are just as deterministic as the old evolutionary models, but for different reasons. D. consider the relevance of world-system theory and political economy to anthropology. E. ignore the role of history in shaping culture as we know it.