Anthropology Quiz 8

All of the following are accurate anthropological statements about race EXCEPT:

because there is no biological basis for assigning racial categories, there are no social consequences for these categories.

A __________ is a ranked group in which membership is determined at birth and marriage is restricted to members of one's own group.

caste

Social inequality exists in a society when different segments of the population have unequal access to ______.

economic resources, power, and prestige

If all social groups in a society have equal access to wealth, prestige, and power, then anthropologists call that society

egalitarian.

Anthropologists are reasonably certain that social stratification

emerged relatively recently in human history, around 8000 years ago.

Social stratification may be less likely in societies with

generalized reciprocity as the primary form of exchange.

In industrialized countries such as the US and Canada, social inequality exists, but opportunities for obtaining education and professional training mean that people can attain a higher socioeconomic class than their parents. This form of social inequality with possibilities for social mobility is referred to as:

open class system.

A society with equal access to wealth and power, but unequal access to prestige, is called

ranked

Egalitarian societies are LEAST likely to be found among

societies with intensive agriculture.

In societies that contain many different ethnic groups,

some ethnic groups have greater access to resources than others, therefore ethnicity is part of the system of stratification.