Carlos has dated a variety of women from diverse racial, ethnic, and economic backgrounds but ended up marrying someone from his small town in Cuba. Sociologists would say that this clearly represents the principle of

(a) exogamy.
(b) heterogamy.
(c) polygamy.
(d) homogamy.


(d)

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