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Hunter-gatherer societies:

A) are becoming rare.
B) are relatively small in number.
C) migrate in search of food.
D) all of these.

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Individuals who live together in a specific geographical area, interact with each other more than they do with outsiders, cooperate for the attainment of common goals, and share a common culture over time constitute a ______.

A) society
B) culture
C) lifestyle
D) collective

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Elisa lives in a small, seminomadic society in which she tends a garden and tends to the small children in her family. Elisa most likely lives in a(n) ______.

According to the text, countercultures:

A college sorority is considered a microculture.

______ theory pictures humans as consciously and deliberately creating their personal and collective histories.

How might we understand culture differently if we study it as a symbolic interactionist, a structural functionalist, or a conflict theorist? In your discussion of this question, pay attention to the main assumptions of the three theories and how they translate into the study of culture. What beneficial knowledge can we gain by studying culture through each of these three lenses?

The way of life shared by a group of people is their ______.

All of the following are characteristics of an agricultural society EXCEPT:

The text details how societies transform and highlights the five types of societies that have existed during human existence. Describe each of these five societies in detail, paying specific attention to the primary characteristics of each type of society. In your essay, also highlight the cultural changes that occur to move societies from one type to the next.

The !Kung of the Kalahari Desert are a typical hunter-gatherer society.

Symbolic interactionists stress the importance of symbols in how we define situations and how we determine how to act.

Countercultures are bad for society.

Ethnocentric behavior is hostile and racist.

A society's culture prescribes, to a large extent, the way people behave and think in that society.

The main difference between a horticultural society and an agricultural society is the technology the society uses to raise crops.

Structural-functional theorists believe that cultural groups struggle to make their own cultural ways dominant in their society.

The material and nonmaterial cultures in a society tend to change at the same rate.

Compare and contrast national and global culture. Provide examples.

Rules about which family members or individuals in a society can or cannot have sexual relationships vary across cultures.