Does industrialization increase or decrease social inequality? Support your answer.

What will be an ideal response?


1. Association between features of social stratification and food production
2. Trend toward increasing inequality over past 8,000 years
3. Lenski’s argument that highly industrialized societies are reversing the trend

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. A problem with using blood type frequencies in human classifications is that:

A. it is extremely difficult to collect blood type data B. blood type is highly influenced by the environment C. most of the frequencies show a clinal distribution D. there is very little variation in blood type frequencies from population to population

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Recent fossil finds from Ethiopia such as the Herto skulls (154,000-160,000 B.P.) and the Omo remains (estimated date 195,000 B.P.) provide accumulated evidence to support the

A. European origin of anatomically modern humans. B. idea that Neandertals originated in Africa and never left the continent. C. African origin of anatomically modern humans. D. Asian origin of broad-spectrum revolution. E. crucial role the manipulation of fire played in the advent of behavioral modernity.

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How long does it take, on average, after exposure to the HIV virus for symptoms to appear?

A) six months B) four years C) three weeks D) ten years

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Analysis of the soil at archaeological sites can provide a wide range of information.

Answer the following statement true (T) or false (F)

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