What did Emile Durkheim discover about the clans of various Aboriginal tribes in Australia?
a. They were united by elaborate family ties symbolized by an animal.
b. Clans could either be plant people or animal people.
c. One did not have to have a blood kinship to his or her clan, but rather an allegiance to a particular totem.
d. They observed a belief system called "totemism."
d
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Which of the following statements is true of the immigrant population in the U.S.?
A. Immigrants who arrive in the U.S. today are mainly European. B. Less than 30% of the immigrant population in the U.S. is from Latin America, Asia, Africa, and the Middle East. C. The number of immigrants constituting racial minority is likely to decrease in the next decade. D. Ethnic minority youths will comprise more than half of total student population in U.S. schools within twenty years.
What is the major means of control used by the neocolonialists to maintain global stratification?
A) using military occupation as a form of coercion B) bribing the country's government officials C) creating debt along with ever-mounting interest D) controlling the country's mass media
Stratification by gender is characteristic of:
a. all human societies b. feudal societies only c. preindustrial societies but not urban industrial societies d. urban industrial societies only
Joe R. Feagin, in his study of American beliefs about the causes of poverty, found that, in general, Americans
a. blame the victim. b. see the cause in the distant past. c. identify social forces as the cause. d. blame the wealthy class.