Anthropologists, as compared to other social scientists, have spent a great deal of time studying kinship because they have ____
a. always focused largely on biological relationships
b. concentrated mainly on small-scale societies where kinship relations tend to be important
c. always studied fictional relationships and how societies are organized socially and politically
d. concentrated on industrial societies where kinship relations tend to be important and affect the individual’s ability to survive
e. have found that kinship is the single most significant factor in social organization in every human society
ANSWER:
b
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