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Anthropology
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According to research cited in the text, __________ seems to enhance a student's school performance and __________ seems to lead to behaviors that can impair it.
A) small class sizes; isolation
B) isolation; small class sizes
C) bonding; small class sizes
D) large class sizes; rejection
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Anthropological fieldwork is characteristic of all of the anthropological subdisciplines.
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Marijuana is commonly prescribed for __________.
A) easing migraine headaches
B) reducing appetite for the obese
C) social anxiety disorder
D) curing ADHD
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The organization of the labor force is such that there are two separate segments: the __________ sector involving domestic and farm work, and the __________ sector involving industrial work.
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Which of the following is true about current mortgage lending practices?
A) Black/White lending differences have been eradicated.
B) Blacks with greater incomes are rejected more often than Whites with lower incomes.
C) Latinos with zero income are able to get better mortgage rates.
D) White people have harder times getting a mortgage when compared with Blacks.
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Cultural and economic upheavals born of globalization have nothing to do with the rising levels of ethnic and religious conflict throughout the world.
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Technological innovations contributed to the development of anthropology in that it enabled people to travel to remote parts of the world.
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According to anthropological ethics, the first responsibility of the anthropologist is to the people studied.
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A __________ solution stems from the assumption that private profit maximizes public good.
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A doctrine is a type of scientific theory.
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Is a progressive social policy possible? What would it take to implement? What would have to be overcome?
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As suggested in your text, the federal government could promote equal opportunity by engaging in __________.
A) the elimination of funding for compensatory programs like Head Start
B) practices which would encourage states to maximize disparities between rich and poor districts
C) institutionalizing a national curriculum
D) residential segregation
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Anthropology is considered to be an empirical social science.
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The active ingredient in marijuana is __________.
A) TAC
B) ABC
C) THC
D) CAT
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Studies of human adaptation focus on the capacity of humans to adapt, or adjust to their material environment, biologically and culturally.
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The __________ refers to invisible barriers that limit women's advancement into the upper levels of management.
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In poor environments, residents often turn to __________.
A) alternative economic activities for survival
B) real estate speculators who purchase and withhold apartments from the housing market
C) landlords who buy properties in poor neighborhoods for jobs
D) young White professionals to get them to move into the neighborhood
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Besides providing factual accounts of the fate of victims who had disappeared (desaparecidos) to their surviving kin, Dr. Snow's work helped convict several Argentine military officers of kidnapping, torture, and murder.
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The transfer of publicly funded technologies to private corporations is an important example of a government __________ to big business.
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Physical anthropologists are only concerned with the past evolutionary development of the human animal and the biological variations with the species that occurred in the past.
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Why do the authors of the text argue for a national rather than a state or local approach? What are the impacts of each? What barriers would have to be overcome to implement a national approach?
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Molecular anthropology is the study of primates and the closest human relatives.
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When state legislation sponsors any kind of archaeological work, it is called contract archaeology.
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__________ is a problem associated with the assessment of schools.
A) The inability to take religion into account
B) Requiring special education students to take the test
C) A subtle encouragement for slow learners to drop out of school
D) The lack of funding tied to standardized test results
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Material and skeletal remains help archaeologists reconstruct the cultural context of human life in the past.
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The shared, learned behavior of non-human apes should not be considered culture.
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The liberalizing of punishments for marijuana use and possession in the mid-1900s as more Whites began to use the drug highlights the __________.
A) social nature of drug use
B) intersection of class and drug politics
C) moral panic of drugs
D) universal nature of drug definitions
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Like other scholars who study people, anthropologists are holistic in their approach.
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Clerical work is a part of the __________ segment of the labor market.
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Organ transplantation involves both biological and social systems.
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In addition to buying properties in poor neighborhoods and converting them to rental properties, a slumlord would also __________.
A) use alternative economic activities for survival
B) purchase and withhold apartments from the housing market for long-term investment
C) have no intention of investing in their upkeep and maintenance
D) actively recruited young White professionals to formerly blighted urban areas.
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Men from the __________ class were less likely to be drafted during the height of the Vietnam War.
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While ethnography is the in-depth study of a single culture, ethnology is the comparative study of culture.
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Ethnographic fieldwork is never done in Western societies.
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Discuss the principles proposed by the authors that are needed to guide public policy with the goal of reducing or eliminating social problems in the United States.
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One way that culture is preserved and shared is by language.
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Although the state and federal governments finance and control education in part, the bulk of money and control for education comes from __________.
A) school principals
B) teachers themselves
C) the Gates foundation
D) local communities
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Ethnocentrism is the belief that one's own culture is superior to another.
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Michelle is opposed to marijuana legalization on the grounds that using it will lead to the use of other, worse drugs. Michelle thinks marijuana is a __________.
A) narcotic
B) psychoactive drug
C) gateway drug
D) cultural drug
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Anthropology is different from other disciplines that study humans because it is very focused on singular aspects of a culture.
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__________ are still oppressed by religious institutions.
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The applied anthropological research study on "transplant tourism," where affluent individuals seek body parts by traveling to poorer areas where individuals are enticed to sell their own body parts to survive, is part of which specialty approach in cultural anthropology?
a. Ethnological anthropology
b. Ethnographic anthropology
c. Medical anthropology
d. Forensic anthropology
e. Cultural resource management
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Since 1980 the federal government has made huge cuts in money and services to central cities, and these cuts have led to __________.
A) a fiscal crisis in urban areas
B) improved educational services
C) a booming population.
D) improvement in healthcare services
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All of the following are powerful forces that drive globalization except:
a. increased trade between countries.
b. cost differences between countries.
c. financial autonomy between countries.
d. faster knowledge transfers.
e. technological innovations.
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__________, as defined in the text, is the ability to get what one wants from someone else.
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The term that refers to worldwide interconnectedness, signified by global movements of natural resources, trade goods, human labor, finance capital, information, and infectious diseases is known as
a. nationalization.
b. internationalization.
c. pandemonium.
d. globalization.
e. holism.
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Discuss "the sociological dilemma" and the benefits that would come with policy makers overcoming their bias against sociologists.
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What is "transplant tourism"?
a. Migration from developing countries to Western societies
b. A study of communities of retired people living outside of the United States
c. Agricultural development in industrialized nations
d. Travel connected with the buying and selling of human organs
e. The study of immigrants in long-established communities
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The anthropologist has to consider obligations to three sets of people:
a. the anthropologist's family, government, and people studied.
b. the people who funded the study, the anthropologist's government, and the people who were studied.
c. the profession of anthropology, other anthropologists who have studied the community, and the community studied.
d. the anthropologist's students, parents, and the people studied.
e. the profession of anthropology, the people who funded the study, and the people studied.
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A Tennessee study found that students in smaller classes tend to __________.
A) achieve lower grades
B) have better college graduation rates
C) be more likely to attend college
D) take more internships
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What is the best way to ensure that a people has the right to maintain its own culture?
a. Allow them to collaborate with and contribute to the anthropologist's study
b. Make a cross-cultural comparative study
c. Determine the most important facts that are relevant to the study
d. Only allow the individuals studied to write the ethnography
e. Do a sample study of various communities in the area
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The media portrayal of the crack epidemic in the 1980s and the meth crisis of today are examples of __________ involving drugs.
A) changing laws
B) prohibition
C) moral panics
D) rehabilitation efforts
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Zulu healers have addressed the AIDS epidemic by all of the following except:
a. providing standard healthcare, regardless of the patient's cultural background.
b. providing mental healthcare as well as physical care.
c. providing referrals to local clinics and hospitals.
d. providing refuge to those who are ostracized from their families because of the disease.
e. providing their homes to be used as orphanages.
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Studies show that children's and adult programming, including commercials, is highly __________, with women being commonly portrayed as objects or villains.
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Citizens living in poor and minority areas in cities and metropolitan areas that have to deal with the illegal dumping of hazardous materials are victims of __________.
A) environmental racism
B) toxic reform efforts
C) the informal economy
D) suburban sprawl and gentrification
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The __________ are the people who occupy the most influential roles in society.
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Suzanne Leclerc-Madlala worked with traditional healers in what country in order to promote greater awareness and effectiveness in addressing HIV/AIDS rates?
a. The United States
b. Kenya
c. South Africa
d. Rwanda
e. Liberia
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Anthropology has been called the most human of the sciences for all of the following reasons except:
a. it has developed a systemic, cross-cultural approach to understanding human behavior.
b. it takes human beings as its subject matter ("the study of humankind").
c. it develops hypotheses and theories about the organization of language, values, and art in culture.
d. it tackles culture as a human experience or system of meaning in which the anthropologist must involve himself/herself in order to develop adequate explanations of what is being observed.
e. it has discovered which cultures are most efficient and has encouraged those less privileged to progress.
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Anthropology studies the language of a culture, its philosophy, and its forms of art. In the process of doing research, ethnographers involve themselves intensively in the lives of those they study, trying to experience culture from their informants' points of view. In this sense, anthropology is
a. scientific.
b. humanistic.
c. radical.
d. conservative.
e. systematic.
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Because the authors focus on structural changes, they argue individuals need not attempt to change.
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__________ are/is recommended to increase equality in education.
A) Universal preschool
B) Larger class sizes
C) Market-based higher education
D) State-run boarding schools
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Despite the fact that marijuana is viewed as a __________, research has shown that it __________ lead to hard drug use.
A) Gateway drug; does not
B) narcotic; does not
C) recreational drug; does
D) legal drug; does
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A position that is a closely examined and critically checked explanation of observed reality is called a(n)
a. attractive hunch.
b. dogma.
c. doctrine.
d. indisputable opinion.
e. theory.
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__________ perpetuates male dominance by ignoring (using "he" as the generic pronoun for all people), trivializing (treating domestic responsibilities as "women's work"), and sexualizing (using terms like bimbos, broads, etc.) women.
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Which of the following is not goal of science?
a. To discover the universal principles that govern the workings of the visible world
b. To develop explanations of the world that are testable and correctable
c. To eliminate the need to use the imagination
d. To seek patterns in the data
e. To use an empirical approach
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Which of the following services is not one that forensic anthropologists routinely are called upon by the police and other authorities to identify?
a. Potential archaeological sites
b. The remains of murder victims
c. Missing persons
d. People who have died in disasters
e. Victims of genocide
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_______________ was a pioneer in using anthropology as an instrument to combat racism.
a. Franz Boas
b. Matilda Coxe Stevenson
c. William Haviland
d. Stephen Jay Gould
e. Suzanne Leclerc-Madlala
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Because of poor healthcare in urban areas, chronic conditions such as diabetes __________.
A) do not exist because of healthy diets
B) often go untreated
C) are covered by insurance without a co-pay
D) are treated faster than other illnesses
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_______________ is the pioneering American anthropologist who did work among the Zuni and founded the Women's Anthropological Society in 1885.
a. Margaret Mead
b. Ruth Benedict
c. Martha Knack
d. Margaret Lyneis
e. Matilda Cox Stevenson
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If Smith serves on the board of Company A, Jones serves on the board of Company B, and Smith and Jones both serve on the board of Company C, then there is a __________ between Companies A and B.
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Though some civil rights battles have been won, the war for racial equality has not been won.
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From skeletal remains, the forensic anthropologist cannot establish which of following?
a. Stature
b. Race
c. Sex
d. Marital status
e. Age
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Clyde Snow is an anthropologist who
a. studied the Zapotec of Mexico.
b. went to Truk and studied drinking behavior.
c. used forensic evidence to investigate "disappearances" in Argentina.
d. advised the U.S. government about how to implement the New Deal.
e. found out that a questionnaire administered to rural Peruvians wasn"t accurate in what it implied about their behavior.
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The tracking system that exists in schools today contributes to the formation of a student subculture that is antagonistic toward school by __________.
A) segregating students so that low achievers are stigmatized and labeled as inferior
B) encouraging children of the elite to participate in cooperative learning alongside low achievers
C) creating a democratic system that prides itself on providing avenues of upward mobility
D) providing low achievers with special education to prepare them to take elite positions in society
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At one point in our nation's history, alcohol was classified as a __________ and outlawed.
A) narcotic
B) psychoactive drug
C) gateway drug
D) cultural drug
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Which of the following are broad research interests of physical anthropologists?
a. Descriptive ethnography and culture-bound theory
b. Fingerprinting and study of hair loss
c. Biological variation in human populations and evolution of human characteristics
d. Primate population variation and the reconstruction of the material remains of culture
e. The study of the origins of language and what causes language change
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As part of your job, you may study the frequency of blood types in human populations, or watch the behavior of monkeys and apes, or dig for early hominid bones in East Africa. You are a/an:
a. ethnologist.
b. primatologist.
c. ethnographer.
d. physical anthropologist.
e. cultural anthropologist.
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The American gender system organizes society in a way that makes women and men __________ equal.
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The protection of cultural resources as part of archaeology is called
a. ethnographic resource management.
b. cultural resource management.
c. cultural resource administration.
d. cultural area management.
e. cultural resource excavation.
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Urban centers are more likely to be __________.
A) highly segregated
B) integrated
C) desegregated
D) racially balanced