What are three major types of marriage based on the number of spouses permitted?

What will be an ideal response?


ANS: They are monogamy, polygyny, and polyandry.

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Gestures, written words, and speech are all forms of

a. displacement. b. oral communication. c. documentation. d. media.

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The “disappeared daughters” are:

a. females unaccounted for by the imbalance of the sex ratio at birth. b. females who are aborted before birth. c. females who are given less opportunity and visibility in the work place. d. daughters who marry into patrilineal families and lose contact with their own families.

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Children commonly pluralize words incorrectly, such as "mans," "deers," and "mouses." What does this suggest about the grasp of linguistic rules?

A) They have an intuitive understanding of morphology. B) Children have a very simplistic understanding of grammatical rules. C) They must learn each word as an individual unit of vocabulary, and cannot apply general rules. D) Children understand free morphemes but not bound morphemes.

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Small-scale societies are less politically integrated than large-scale ones

a. True b. False Indicate whether the statement is true or false

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