What is the term for the use of force by a dominant group to compel a minority to adopt the prevailing culture?
A. genocide
B. forced assimilation
C. environmental racism
D. ethnocentrism
E. attitudinal discrimination
Answer: B
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According to Flannery (1999), only ranked societies that have undergone a loss of village autonomy
A. can effectively organize into productive states with law-abiding citizens. B. should be called chiefdoms. C. suffer the consequences of extreme social stratification. D. inevitably lead to state formation. E. experience intervillage warfare.
A study comparing Japanese and American facial expressions found that __________.
A) the two had similar expressions in public, but the American participants were more expressive when they thought they were alone B) participants of both cultural groups were careful to mask their feelings in front of authority figures C) participants of the two cultural groups had nearly identical facial expressions, both in public and in private D) the two had similar expressions in private, but the Japanese participants tried to mask their feelings in front of authority figures
In grouping organisms together in a cladistic classification, the most important characteristics are those that are
a. ancestral b. shared derived (modified) c. shared primitive d. analogous e. homologous
Enculturation is so successful because __________
a. it is so obvious to everyone that it must be b. it is nonexplicit but constant c. it so extremely explicit d. it has been so well formalized over many generations