Culture is essential to maintain social systems because it provides two crucial functions: stability and

a. socialization.
b. acculturation.
c. predictability of action.
d. operant conditioning.


Answer: c. predictability of action.

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Answer the following statement true (T) or false (F)

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a. Participants’ children needed to be either biological or adopted. b. Participants needed to have previously told other people that they never wanted to have children. c. Participants needed to admit to regretting having children. d. Participants needed to have felt in the past that they never wanted to have children.

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People define themselves as "healthy" or "sick" on the basis of:

A. criteria established by the World Health Organization (WHO). B. their body temperature. C. objective and agreed-upon criteria established by the medical community. D. criteria established by themselves, relatives, friends, co workers, and medical practitioners.

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