When a particular view of the world or belief is threatened, people utilize secondary elaboration and selective perception to preserve what they believe
Indicate whether the statement is true or false.
ANS: T
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What did the field studies of Japanese primatologist Kinji Imanishi reveal about bonobos?
a. importance of social ranking and competition b. importance of social cooperation c. importance of father–child bonds d. importance of male dominance hierarchies
Which of the following statements about mass migration is correct?
a. About 20 percent of the people living in France today are foreign-born immigrants. b. Most immigrants to the United States come from Asia and Africa c. About 11 percent of the world's population today lives outside their countries of birth. d. Immigration from the Caribbean to the United States is rapidly increasing.
The notion of dysfunction was proposed by ________
a. Merton to refer to stress or imbalance in a cultural system b. Radcliffe-Brown to refer to stress or imbalance in a cultural system c. Malinowski to refer to unintended or unrecognized functions of culture d. Levi-Strauss to refer to unintended or unrecognized functions of culture e. Boas to refer to the lack of ethnographic data and theoretical evidence