The American anthropologist Edward Sapir and his student, Benjamin Whorf, drawing on his experience with the language of the Hopi Indians, developed a full-fledged theory now known as the theory of:
a. cultural relativity.
b. linguistic relativity.
c. code switching.
d. linguistic nationalism.
e. phenomenology.
b
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Cross-culturally, how does father absence impact the likelihood of juvenile delinquency and, later, physical violence?
A) Father absence increases the likelihood of juvenile delinquency. B) There is a link in societies with nuclear households, but not those with polygynous households. C) Father absence reduces the likelihood of juvenile delinquency. D) There is no link between father absence and juvenile delinquency.
Morton Fried's three classifications for degree of inequality refer to differences in
a. social rewards distributed to individuals based on skill and age. b. social and material rewards allocated on the basis of age and sex. c. how social and material rewards are distributed among family and kin groups. d. the amount of social and material rewards a society has to allocate to its members.
One difference between industrial and postindustrial societies is that in the latter __________
A. production is entirely mechanized B. more people are employed in service and high-technology occupations C. trade occurs on a global level D. people earn higher salaries
Which of the following was a characteristic shared by recent foraging communities?
A. They lived in marginal environments that were of little interest to food-producing societies. B. They spoke simplified languages. C. They relied on welfare supplied by state-level societies. D. They devolved to foraging from a more advanced level of subsistence. E. They fished a great deal.