Distinguish between sex and gender

What will be an ideal response?


Sex is the biological difference between male and female, while gender is the cultural articulation of these differences between male and female – how they are socially meaningful in that culture.

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Standards that form our orientation to the world around us are

a. norms. b. folkways. c. values. d. money.

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The United States is a country of immigrants. Newly arrived immigrants tend to settle near one another for social comfort and support, thus forming small, semi-isolated populations. The frequencies of the ABO blood types in these populations are often very different from the population of the mother country. This is due to the fact that:

A. the small size of the immigrant population is not a random sample of the mother population B. mutation rates are higher in the United States C. natural selection quickly produces changes in the frequencies of ABO blood types D. none of these

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What is culture shock?

What will be an ideal response?

Anthropology & Archaeology

According to the AAA statement on race, inequalities among racial groups are the consequence of biological inheritance

Indicate whether the statement is true or false.

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