Exam 11: Grouping by Gender, age, common Interest, and Class

Division of labor along gender lines is common to all human societies.

Symbolic indicators may not always be reliable in helping you assess someone's class status.Which of the following is an example of this?

High rates of rape appear to be associated with societies in which the roles of males and females are highly segregated,and in which there are efforts by males to be dominant over women.Since this is true,we would expect the highest rate of rape to occur among the _______________.

The caste system remains deeply entrenched in Hindu culture and is still widespread throughout southern Asia,especially in rural India.

Stratified societies are societies which are ____________________________________.

Experts predict that in the U.S.the population reaching elder status (senior citizens of 65 years and older)will swell to about ________ million by 2030.

Age groupings in North America often lead to people _______________________.

In societies like the _______________,many tasks men and women undertake may be shared,and people may perform work normally assigned to the opposite sex without loss of face.

In the U.S. ,any project requiring a federal permit or license,or using federal funds,by law must be preceded by a/an _______________.

Among the _______________ of the Amazon men not only work apart from women,but eat and sleep separately as well.

Which term is used to identify the act of (or ability to)willingly join any association,not based on gender or marriage?

India's national constitution of 1950 abolished caste discrimination and the practice of untouchability,effectively doing away with the centuries old caste system.

The _______________ is perhaps the world's longest surviving social hierarchy;it encompasses a complex ranking of social groups on the basis of ritual purity.

Anthropologist _______________ was hired to carry out a social impact assessment of a water diversion project in New Mexico.

A(n)_______________ is a special form of social class in which membership is determined by birth and remains fixed for life.

Social classes are closed in _______________ where membership in hierarchically ranked groups known as castes is determined by birth and remains fixed for life according to social and religious mandates.

Upward mobility in social class is more possible _______________.

The word apartheid,the abolished racial segregation practice in South Africa,means ___________ in Afrikaans/Dutch.

In North America,and other Western countries,women have finally achieved full parity with men in terms of income,status,and power.