Question

1. According to the Miller text, studies attempting to test for innate ("inborn") gender differences have found that:

A. the relatively smaller size of girl babies may predispose them to higher rates of crying than boy babies.

B. boy babies appear to be more aggressive than girl babies because they learn to walk sooner.

C. boy babies are more independent since they cry less when separated from their care-takers

D. there is little evidence for innate personality differences betwen boys and girls.

2. Participation in the Kula reinforces status distinctions.

True

False

3. The mode of production that is based on growing food on shifting plots of land is called agriculture.

True

False

4. No concept of property relations exists among traditional, undisturbed foragers.

True

False

Answer 1

1) OPTION D-there is little evidence for innate personality differences betwen boys and girls.

All other option are wrong about the innate ("inborn") gender differences.

example Males and females differ in some aspects of their brains, notably the overall difference in size with men having larger brains on average (between 8% and 13% larger.

2)TRUE

Kula, is a ceremonial exchange system conducted in the Milne Bay Province of Papua New Guinea. The Kula ring was made famous by the father of modern anthropology, Bronisław Malinowski, who used this test case to argue for the universality of rational decision making (even among 'natives'), and for the cultural nature of the object of their effort.

3)TRUE

Shifting cultivation is an agricultural system in which plots of land are cultivated temporarily, then abandoned and allowed to revert to their natural vegetation while the cultivator moves on to another plot.

4) FALSE

The concept of property relations that exists among traditional, undisturbed foragers is called the informal sector