Age set systems serve as mechanisms of social control because:
a. they are associated with a belief that social deviance will cause one to suffer in the afterlife.
b. only members of an individual's own age set have any authority over him.
c. the members always spend a lot of time drinking together.
d. individuals' initiations almost always include an intense period of training in the norms
and values of thesociety.
e. individuals are socially considered to be a corporate lineage group because they have been socialized as agroup since birth.
d
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According to this theory, animal domestication began because permanent water holes attracted hungry animals that came to graze on the stubble of the grain fields. People, finding these animals too thin to kill for food, began to fatten them up. This theory is known as the desiccation theory, or:
a. hilly flanks theory. b. oasis theory. c. domestication theory. d. leisure theory. e. hungry animal theory.
________ refers to the cultural change that results when two or more cultures have continuous contact
A. Acculturation B. Enculturation C. Independent invention D. Colonization E. Imperialism
The current world stratification system features a substantial contrast between capitalists and workers in the core nations, and workers on the periphery.
Answer the following statement true (T) or false (F)
Which of the following is not a common activity for an ethnomusicologist?
a. Study musical transcription b. Work to change a culture’s music c. Study how instruments are used to make music d. Identify diverse types of music