Which of the following is NOT characteristic of an egalitarian society?
A. A person's status is based on age, gender, individual qualities, talents, and achievements.
B. There are no social classes.
C. Everybody is of equal status.
D. Everybody is born equal.
E. There is no hereditary inequality.
Answer: C
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A) $10,000 B) $7,000 C) $60,000 D) $70,000
Which of the following is most likely in the art of a stratified society?
A) enclosed figures B) symmetrical design C) repetition of similar elements in the design D) greater use of "focal" colors
According to Eames in in "Negotiating Nigerian Bureaucracies," patrimonial practices similar to those found in Nigerian society do occur in the United States. The use of such practices
a. occurs solely in the political arena. b. is considered an illegitimate way to conduct business. c. cannot coexist within a system of bureaucratically organized, legal domination. d. is considered a legitimate way to conduct business.
A cross-cultural study that systematically compared romantic love in many cultures found
A. that while people everywhere know what love is, they experience it differently. B. evolutionary evidence for romantic love in all the societies surveyed. C. a rise in love matches over arranged marriages in industrialized societies, but the opposite trend in nonindustrialized societies. D. a scholarly bias throughout the social sciences that views romantic love as a luxury in human life, especially in academia. E. evidence that romantic love may be a universal, although romantic love and marriage do not necessarily go together.