Answer the following statements true (T) or false (F)

1. Emic knowledge is knowledge of the culture learned from the outside, often leaving some aspects puzzling.
2. In regard to social class, a study found that children of professional parents heard six times more encouragements per hour than children from families receiving welfare.
3. In 1988, the U.S. Congress passed a Senate Resolution to recognize the influence of the Iroquois League on the U.S. Constitution and Bill of Rights.
4. The scientific method, democracy, and capitalism are institutions of Western cultures.
5. Historian David Hackett Fischer argues that early immigrants from England established distinctive regional cultures in the United States that remain today.


1. FALSE
2. TRUE
3. TRUE
4. TRUE
5. TRUE

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