Define caste
What will be an ideal response?
Caste is a system of stratification in which membership in a stratum is in theory hereditary, strata are endogamous, and explicit laws, norms, or prohibitions govern contact or relationships between members of different strata.
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Anthropologists have concluded that the physical environment by itself has a __________, rather than a __________, effect on the major types of subsistence.
A) definitive; determining B) restraining; determining C) definitive; restraining D) positive; negative
Human language has a capacity to generate an infinite number of messages from a finite set of elements, a feature called __________
A) displacement B) mode of communication C) discourse D) productivity
Which one of the following features was part of V. Gordon Childe's definition of ancient urban civilizations?
A. independence and self-sufficiency in terms of providing subsistence goods B. an egalitarian, generalized division of labor C. use of numbers and writing systems for record keeping D. specialized production of bronze and iron implements
Differences in status are not only expressed in words and speech patterns but are also demonstrated how?
A cultural practices B in assignment of rights to speak and to determine topics of talk C norms D ideological standards E language ideologies