What is modernization theory?
What will be an ideal response?
ANSWER:
It is the idea that differences in economic development may be explained by inherent sociocultural differences between the rich and the poor.
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A. 3.1 B. 5.2 C. 7.0 D. 9.3
Sexual relations in Mangaia:
a. Don't begin until men and women are in their thirties. b. Are as common between men as between men and women. c. Are a very serious and private matter, generally kept secret until the birth of children. d. Take place in private, but with much public joking. e. Frequently take place in public.
The incest taboo is a:
a. ?cultural prohibition of sexual and marital relations between certain kin. b. ?biological imperative that prevents sexual relations among anyone who identifies as family. c. ?social category of individuals with whom one is permitted to have sexual relations. d. ?set of sexual preventions that allows the nuclear family to function as a socio-economic unit.
Gender and race can and do intersect. During administration of the Dutch East Indies in Indonesia, the colonial government practiced a racial hierarchy in which:
a. ?those at the lowest rungs of society, such as native peoples, were believed to have the loosest sexual morals. b. ?those at the highest rungs of society, such as elite Europeans, were believed to have the loosest sexual morals. c. ?those with the highest sexual morals were believed to be descended from only the native aristocracy. d. ?commoners had no sexual or moral standing.