Which of the following statements about nonstate societies is true?
A. All political power is based on religion.
B. Social control is maintained mostly through physical coercion.
C. Warfare is conducted by professional armies.
D. Political institutions are maintained totally separate from economic institutions.
E. Economic, political, and religious activities are often embedded in one another.
Answer: E
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a. secular rituals. b. rites of reversal. c. rites of passage. d. gender rituals.
Refer to the table below. If A = 6 and B = 8, which of the following is true?
A) The firm should buy more of Input 1 and less of Inputs 2 and 3.
B) The firm should buy more of Input 2 and less of Inputs 1 and 3.
C) The firm should buy more of Input 3 and less of Inputs 1 and 2.
D) The firm is minimizing costs.
In addition to one-male harem groups, gelada society is also made up of:
A. small all-male groups B. family units C. nursery units D. solitary adults
The standard kinship system in North America as well as in many other industrialized nations is
a. patrilineal descent. b. matrilineal descent. c. bilateral descent. d. mostly patrilineal descent, with an almost equal amount of bilateral descent. e. shared by all other nonindustrialized societies in the world.