What is a ranked society?

What will be an ideal response?


This is 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.

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What do we call the practice in the United States of assigning race to the parent believed to pertain to a minority group (known also as the "one drop rule")?

a. ethnic derivation rule b. clinal distribution c. mitochondrial typing d. hypodescent rule

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All Old World Monkeys belong to which superfamily?

a. Monquidae b. Cercopithecidae c. Ominidae d. Callitrichidae e. Pongidae

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The belief that one's own cultural values are superior to those of another culture is called:

a. ethnocentrism. b. cultural relativism. c. cultural reMSC management. d. comparativism.

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The price elasticity for insulin (a life-saving drug for diabetics) is likely to be ________.

A) elastic B) perfectly inelastic C) perfectly elastic D) close to infinity

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