Study of correspondences between religion and social organization indicate that
A) monotheism probably preceded polytheism in time.
B) ancestor worship is most often found among hunting-and-gathering bands.
C) religions with "high gods" are most often found in highly stratified societies.
D) animism is present in all but the most primitive societies.
E) religion tends to undermine authority in stratified societies.
C
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A) movement away from disequilibrium in society, expressing the need to rectify conditions in society causing disharmony B) movement toward disequilibrium in order to express the randomness of the world C) the need to have happy endings in myths D) the need to show a character's moral development through the course of the story
All of the following statements about cargo cults are correct except:
a. the cult promised resurrection of dead ancestors. b. cargo cult believers tended to be rich natives and colonizers. c. many cargo cults occurred in Melanesia. d. the cult was based on the premise that Western riches would come to the natives. e. cargo cult doctrine said that the rich white man would magically disappear through natural catastrophe.
The last common ancestor of humans and African apes was probably __________
a. a terrestrial ape b. either arboreal or a knucklewalker c. larger than either humans or African apes d. not a brachiator
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A. "Marx analyzed 19th- century industrial capitalism." B. "Marx viewed socioeconomic stratification in terms of several classes with different but complementary interests." C. "Marx called the owners of the means of production the bourgeoisie." D. "Marx called the people who sold their labor the proletariat." E. "Marx emphasized class consciousness."