Every language has a limited number of sounds and rules for combining them to create units of meaning. This characteristic of language is called

a. productivity.
b. arbitrariness.
c. discreteness.
d. displacement.

c

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Why are the majority of intensive agricultural societies located outside of the tropics?

A) It is difficult to control insects and weeds in the tropics, making agriculture less productive. B) Most societies in the tropics are too small to require intensive agriculture. C) Tropical forests are so bountiful that people can easily survive on a foraging lifestyle. D) Tropical environments are particularly well suited to pastoralism.

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Justifications for war are embedded in a society’s:

a. religious beliefs. b. class structure. c. worldview. d. political organization. e. perspective of sanctions.

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Religion includes all of the following except:?

a. an organized system of ideas about the spiritual sphere
b. associated ceremonial practices used to interpret things beyond control
c. concern with the sacred as distinguished from ordinary reality
d. practiced primarily on the level of a relationship between individual and deity

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Social ranking on the basis of caste is __________

A) of great ritual importance in India but has no economic or political importance B) an example of a primary social group C) an ascribed system D) no longer an operational social system in India

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