Anthropologist Leslie White maintained that inventions control people. He supported this conclusion with the argument that
a. necessity is the mother of invention.
b. when the cultural base is capable of supporting an invention that invention will come into being whether we want it or not.
c. human beings have no free will.
d. the best things in science are found because they are useful at the time.
Ans: b. when the cultural base is capable of supporting an invention that invention will come into being whether we want it or not.
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(a) questionnaires (b) the SIST (c) perceived support (d) behavioral observations
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A. considering traditional gender-role behavior desirable and a divergence from the norm as deviant. B. assuming that boys develop similar masculine behaviors and girls develop similar feminine behaviors. C. assuming that early childhood is a critical period in gender-role development. D. All of these answers are correct.
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Answer the following statement true (T) or false (F)