What does Laura Nader mean by the "beauty industrial complex"?
a. It is an industry that defines the female body as standardized and then provides commodities and procedures for women to achieve this image.
b. It is a collection of global companies who work together to make ethnically responsive cosmetic products.
c. It is a series of companies in Europe and the United States that focus specifically on plastic surgeries as a way to achieve a more feminine look.
d. It is a group of companies producing green technology and environmentally-friendly products.
a
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If there is underproduction in a competitive market, the quantity produced is ________ than the efficient quantity and the marginal benefit to society is ________ than the marginal cost.
A) greater; greater B) greater; less C) less; less D) less; greater
Recall the mechanisms of genetic evolution discussed in the previous chapter. What is the relationship between gene flow and the existence of clines between human populations?
A. Gene flow causes abrupt differences in gene frequencies between neighboring groups. B. Clines accelerate gene flow and genetic change due to chance. C. Gene flow, the exchange of genetic material across populations, results in clines, which are gradual shifts in gene frequencies between neighboring groups. D. Gene flow increases the genetic isolation of neighboring groups, resulting in discrete genetic differences in the population, instead of clines. E. There is no relationship between gene flow and clines.
A cultural ideology that defines the dominant ethnic group as universal and treats other ethnic groups as deviations from the norm
A. Androcentrism B. Ethnocentrism C. Heterocentrism
Pliopithecoidea, like the proconsuloids, are also generally known from the
a. early Archean. b. early Proterozoic. c. Cambrian. d. early Ordovicians. e. early Miocene.