What is the study of sociolinguistics?
What will be an ideal response?
Sociolinguistics is the study of how language is related to culture and the social uses of speech.
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Which statement about culture change is FALSE?
a. Cultures are always changing. b. Cultures change through the processes of diffusion and innovation. c. Cultures change more through invention than through diffusion. d. Anthropologists do not agree on the single most important cause of culture change. e. Culture change is important to cultural survival.
Which of the following statements is false?
a. Earlier Homo erectus populations had a smaller cranial capacity than later populations. b. Thick cranial and postcranial bones characterize most Homo erectus specimens. c. Homo erectus appears to have been less encephalized than Homo sapiens. d. Several definite Homo erectus fossils have been discovered in France. e. Homo erectus was most likely the first hominid to live outside of Africa
If someone takes a handful of pebbles and scatters them in order to read the pattern or design as a prediction, it is
called: a. chiromancy. b. scapulamancy. c. pyromancy. d. geomancy. e. hydromancy.
Benedict argued that anomie often affects those within an individualist society
a. True b. False