When anthropologist Doug Foley did an ethnography of a small Texas town he found that the everyday stories created around high school football tended to

A. reaffirm established ways of thinking and doing things in the town.
B. encourage young women in the ton to play contact sports.
C. disrupt popular ideas about social inequality.
D. improve that status of low income families because their boys played football.


Answer: A

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