Anthropologists,as Compared to Other Social Scientists,have Spent a Great Deal

question 17

Multiple Choice

Anthropologists,as compared to other social scientists,have spent a great deal of time studying kinship because they have:

• A) always focused largely on biological relationships.
• B) concentrated mainly on small-scale societies where kinship relations tend to be important.
• C) always studied fictional relationships and how societies are organized socially and politically.
• D) concentrated on industrial societies where kinship relations tend to be important and affect the individual's ability to survive.
• E) have found that kinship is the single most significant factor in social organization in every human society.

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