The primary difference between a village head and a "big man" is that
A. a big man can enforce his decisions.
B. a big man has supporters in multiple villages.
C. a village head is a band leader, while a big man is a tribal leader.
D. a big man's high status is ascribed, while a village head's high status is achieved.
E. village head is a permanent political office, while big man is a temporary position.
B
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Simple bands
a. were male dominated. b. had names that came from features in their territory. c. practiced endogamous marriage. d. used voting and other democratic methods for decision making.
Race, like ethnicity in general, is
A. a meaningless concept to people living day to day. B. poorly understood by geneticists and therefore considered a cultural category. C. a biological reality as much as a cultural one. D. used by social scientists to classify humans based on genes and shared blood. E. a cultural category rather than a biological reality.
Which of the following statements about social mobility is correct?
A) There are possibilities for social mobility within class systems, although there are also constraints to mobility. B) Open class systems allow mobility for all individuals from one class to another, depending on their work ethic and the historical time period. C) Class systems do not support social mobility, although some limited mobility does occur under certain circumstances. D) Social mobility does not occur within a stratified society. E) Social mobility does not occur openly within any complex society, although there is suppressed movement in and out of the middle class.
Macroevolution and punctuated equilibrium help explain __________
a. the abundance of intermediate forms in the fossil record b. gradualism c. gaps in the fossil record d. the interrelationships among an organism's characteristics.