ANTH101 Final Questions and Answers
What is communitas?
A. Social inequality that is accepted even by those who are less privileged
B. A feeling of great social solidarity, equality, and togetherness
C. Anxiety about the meaning of life
D. The Latin word for mana
E. The supernatural...
A. Social inequality that is accepted even by those who are less privileged
B. A feeling of great social solidarity, equality, and togetherness
C. Anxiety about the meaning of life
D. The Latin word for mana
E. The supernatural - answer B
The largest religion in the world, in terms of number of practitioners, is
A. Buddhism.
B. Islam.
C. Judaism.
D. Hinduism.
E. Christianity. - answer E
Which type of a situation is most likely to result in a matrilineal-matrilocal society?
A. Population pressure is high.
B. A shift to food production has recently taken place.
C. Men's hunting activities are more important than women's gathering.
D. Polygyny is common.
E. Warfare is infrequent. - answer E
Which of the following is not culturally constructed?
A. Race
B. Gender
,C. Kinship
D. Sex
E. Sexual norms - answer D
What is the domestic-public dichotomy?
A. Strong differentiation between spheres of exchange
B. Strong differentiation between the secular and the sacred
C. Strong differentiation between elite and commoners
D. Strong differentiation between the home and the outside world
E. Strong differentiation between local and international trade - answer D
Which of the following statements concerning gender stratification is true?
A. Gender equality is common among agriculturalists.
B. There are many societies in which women control all the strategic resources and
engage in the most prestigious activities.
C. Gender stratification is generally reduced when the domestic and public spheres are
not sharply separated.
D. The more women contribute to the domestic sphere, the more publicly recognized
power they achieve.
E. The less women contribute to the public sphere, the more publicly recognized power
they achieve. - answer C
Which of the following statements about ethnicity is not true?
A. Ethnicity is based on actual, perceived, and assumed cultural similarities among
members of the same ethnic group.
B. People may change the amount of importance they place on ethnicity due to political
or individual life changes.
C. Ethnic distinctions can be based on language and geography.
D. Unlike race, ethnicity derives from biological differences among human groups.
, E. Ethnic distinctions can be based on religion, kinship, history, and "race." - answer
D
In Codes of Gender, Sut jhally presents Erving Goffman's research on gender displays
in the media. According to this, gender is primarily understood through ...
A. a set of practiced performances of socially constructed rules for behavior.
B. biological influences on the social role undertaken by men and women.
C. male demand for a patriarchal relationship with women.
D. All of the above
E. None of the above - answer A
The use of voodoo dolls is an example of
A. imitative magic.
B. contagious magic.
C. taboo.
D. animism.
E. superstition. - answer A
From the below choices, select the best answer to complete the statement. Based on
the arguments presented in Codes of Gender, Sut Jhally demonstrates that the media's
use of gender reaffirms in the cultural perception that
A. masculinity is defined and enacted in opposition to femininity.
B. masculinity can have flexible meanings as long as femininity is also display in flexible
terms.
C. masculinity is defined by a set of innate phenotypical traits of maleness
D. the meaning of masculinity has been even more flexible then femininity in the
modern era as men have to adapt to more domestic demands. - answer A
What is the term for policies and practices that harm a group and its members?
A. Colonialism
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