The term ________ refers to the tasks and activities that a culture assigns to the sexes.

A. gender stereotypes
B. sex stereotypes
C. gender roles
D. gender duties
E. sex roles


Answer: C

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The Balinese cockfight is called "deep play" because:

a. It is merely play. b. It is done in a playful manner. c. It has deep symbolic meaning. d. People who engage in it are over their heads financially. e. It deepens the gap between the different social strata in Balinese society.

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Which of these anthropologists first popularized cultural relativism as an important methodological principle?

a. Margaret Mead b. Marvin Harris c. Franz Boas d. Bronislaw Malinowski

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The gender division of labor in the agricultural mode of livelihood __________

A) is the most egalitarian of all modes of livelihood B) involves highly overlapping tasks for males and females in most societies C) means that men work more hours and women work fewer than in horticulture D) is more segregated than in temperate foraging societies

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