Which of the following did Karl Marx view as the key factor distinguishing humans from animals?
A. humans' ability to transform raw material into finished product
B. humans' ability to love and form caring relationships
C. animals' relative lack of social structure
D. animals' preoccupation with obtaining sustenance and reproducing
Answer: A
You might also like to view...
A religion in which followers become involved in practices such as fasting or celibacy to separate themselves from worldly attachments can be classified as
a. prophetic. b. mystical. c. sacramental. d. secular.
Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 has enabled women to:
a. reduce sexual harassment in the work place. b. move in the direction of equal pay for equal work. c. secure more government-sponsored day-care services. d. minimize the negative effects of corporate downsizing.
To keep their children in line, sociologist Melvin Kohn found that _____ parents tend to use physical punishment
a. upperclass b. all c. middleclass d. workingclass
Durkheim suggested that every society is organized around __________
A) religious justifications for hierarchy and domination B) certain religious ideas that helped spread capitalism C) understandings of blasphemy and apostasy D) notions of the sacred and the profane