Which of the following groups has the highest likelihood of downward mobility in the US?
a. married men with children
b. divorced men
c. married women
d. divorced women with children
d
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The term “modernization”:
a. is a relativistic rather than ethnocentric concept. b. refers to the process of cultural and socioeconomic change whereby societies acquire the characteristics of industrialized societies. c. refers to a global and all-encompassing process whereby modern cities development new types of subsistence. d. can be used to show that all societies go through the same stages of evolutionary development, culminating in the urban-industrial state. e. is not used by anthropologists.
When a man is simultaneously married to two or more women, anthropologists call the arrangement
a. polygamy. b. polygyny. c. polyandry. d. exogamy.
According to Reed in "Forest Development the Indian Way," Guaraní Indians subsist in the Amazon tropical forest largely by
a. slash-and-burn farming. b. horticulture and foraging. c. foraging. d. rubber tree tapping.
Some theories that explain the rise of civilization fail to recognize the capacity of aggressive, charismatic leaders to shape the course of human history. One theory that acknowledges not only the relationship of society to the environment in shaping social and cultural behavior but also the forceful leaders who create change by striving to advance their positions through self-serving actions
This theory is called: a. hydraulic theory. b. charismatic theory. c. action theory. d. ecological theory. e. circumscription theory.