Norms are best described as:
a. Symbolic meanings about values and beliefs.
b. Values held only by older members of a society.
c. Ideas people in a society share about the way things ought to be done.
d. Behaviors present in large hierarchical societies but absent in small egalitarian societies.
e. The same as laws in most societies.
C
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A. to provide entertainment and comic relief for the chief and his family B. to pay homage to the legitimacy of the chiefs and their ancestral deities C. to enable the lower classes to have an outlet for their hostilities that did not threaten the chiefs D. to enhance the status of the chiefdom in relation to other chiefdoms in the area
The Sapir-Whorf hypothesis argues that:
A) all human language is similar because our brains are structured similarly. B) language conditions our perception of reality. C) language is a structural prison through which we much accommodate our individual selves. D) culture determines the type of language that we speak. E) language occurs beyond the human species.
Power based on threat or physical force is called:
a. coercive power. b. authoritative power. c. ?persuasive power. d. ?collective power.
What is the term for the ability to create new expressions by combining other expressions?
A. productivity B. morphemic utility C. displacement D. diglossia E. phonemic utility