Pop Quiz Questions Flashcards
Which of the following statements about foraging is false?
Foraging societies have all changes in similar ways because they have faced similar circumstances
The concept of an adaptive strategy is?
Is used to describe any society’s system of economic production
Which if the following is associated with horticulture?
Periodic cycles of cultivation and fallowing.
Which if the following statements about horticulture is true?
It makes use of simple tools for growing crops
The key factor that distinguishes agriculturalists from horticulturalists is that agriculturalists:
Use land intensively and continuously
Which of the following is not a consequence of agriculture?
Agriculture promotes nomadism to allow farmers to take full advantage of their land
Which of the following is found in all adaptive strategies?
Some kind of division of labor based on gender
Most generally, economic alienation in industrial societies comes about as a result of:
Separation of workers from the products they make
Which of these statements about generalized reciprocity is true?
It is the characteristic form of exchange in egalitarian societies
All of the following are true about pot latching except
The giving away of substantial wealth in the pot latch indicates that it is a classic case of economically wasteful behavior
The text argues that the term sociopolitical is preferable to Morton’s Fried’s political organization because
Fried spoke of the management of “public policy” in his definition of political organization, making this term less applicable to non-states
Band societies:
Have cultural rules that help members to distinguish between proper and improper behavior
All of the following statements about the SAN OF SOUTHERN AFTICA are true EXCEPT:
No San today retain their foraging lifestyle
Which of the following factors is responsible for the recent changes in Yanomami tribal society?
Gold miners and cattle ranchers have encroached on Yanomami territory and attacked its people;the miners have introduced new diseases
Why are pantribal sodalities and age grades described in a chapter on political systems?
They are organizing principles used to mobilize and link groups to form alliances
The comparison between the Basseri and the Qashqai, two Iranian nomadic tribes, illustrates that:
As regulatory problems increase, political hierarchies become more complex
In foraging and tribal societies, what is the basis for the degree of respect or status attached to an individual?
Personal attributes, such as wisdom, leadership skills, and generosity
In what kind of society does differential access to strategic resources based on social stratification occur?
States
All of the following are interrelated dimensions of social stratification as defined by the sociologist Max Weber expect:
The permanence of social position
Which of the following would not constitute a status or specialized function that is found in all states?
Elimination of different rights granted to different social classes
Which of the following explains the reasons for the primacy of the nuclear family in modern North America?
Geographic mobility separates North Americans from their extended families.
Which of the following is not true about the nuclear family?
It is universally present in human societies.
A lineage is distinguished from a clan by this particular characteristic
Lineage members can name their forebears from the apical ancestor through the present.
The following is generally true about incest:
Human behavior with respect to mating with close relatives may express a generalized primate tendency, including both urges and avoidance
The rule of endogamy in India’s caste system is an extreme example of that practice. All of the following are true of endogamy in India except:
Castes are NEVER subdivided into exogamous lineages
In societies where same sex marriage is legal, Edmund Leach’s rules about the allocation of rights by marriage apply in all of the following ways, except:
In CONTEMPORARY North American society, parents typically recognize affinity l, or relation through marriage, with a child’s partner of the same sex
The practice by which the husbands group makes a substantial gift to the wife and her kin is called:
Bridge wealth
Which of the following statements about divorce is false?
Divorce is LESS common in matrilineal societies than in patrilineal societies.
POLYGAMY includes all of these cases EXECPT:
A man who marries, then divorces, then marries again, then divorces again
Which of the following statements about marriage is true?
Outside industrial societies, marriage is often more a relationship between groups than one between individuals
Quote “the biological nature of men and women (should be seen) not as narrow enclosure limiting the human organism…” Which of the following best describes this quote’s significance?
The quote REFLECTS the PREDOMINANT anthropological position on sex/gender roles in biology
Hidatsa women made boats, and Pawnee women worked wood. These two cases suggest that:
There are EXCEPTIONS to cross-cultural generalizations about the kinds of work men and women usually do in different societies
Among foragers:
The lack of clear domestic-public dichotomy is related to relatively weak gender stratification.
Which of the following statements about gender STATUS AND POWER in horticultural societies is false?
Matriarchy describes systems in which the women hold superior power to, and rule, the men
Which of the following is false about gender roles and statuses among agriculturalists?
The advent of agriculture in horticultural societies gave women a further advantage in the prestige hierarchy
In which kind of SOCIETY do anthropologists melt typically find female gentian operations, warfare, female infanticide, and dowry murders?
Patrilineal-patrilocal
The idea that “A WOMAN’S PLACE IS AT HOME”:
Emerged in the United States as industrialism spread after 1900.
In comparing gender roles and status in different societies, we can say that the following is TRUE:
Generally, women’s status is relatively high among horticulturalists with matrilineal descent and matrilocal residence
“THE FEMINIZATION OF POVERTY” means that:
Women and their children are increasingly represented among the worlds poorest people
All of the following are key ideas to take away from this chapters discussion of sexual orientation except:
There is conclusive scientific evidence that sexual orientation is generally determined.
