Linguistic anthropologist Shirley Brice Heath, in her study of literacy events in a small city US southeast, discovered
a. no significant difference in reading and writing between the communities studied.
b. clear evidence that most parents in some communities were functionally illiterate.
c. different communities approach reading in very different ways.
d. learning to read and write gave students a very different perspective on language.
c
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The main difference between egalitarian and ranked societies is that in ranked societies:
a. there are never marked differences in wealth among the classes. b. there are no differences in status based on age and sex. c. there are a fixed number of statuses into which only certain individuals are recruited. d. leadership statuses are less formal and more open to all.
UAE stands for United Arab Emirates
Indicate whether the statement is true or false.
Traits, such as skin color, that display a great deal of variation tend to be:
Participant-observation has the advantage of
a. providing a large sample size. b. ease of recording of data. c. being an unobtrusive data gathering technique. d. enabling fieldworkers to distinguish actual from expected behavior. e. creating standardized, scientific data.