Social Patterns Entrenched in Hierarchy and Stratification Have Emerged

question 37

Multiple Choice

Social patterns entrenched in hierarchy and stratification have emerged:

• A) only more recently in human history when compared to egalitarian social patterns.
• B) much earlier in human history when compared to egalitarian social patterns.
• C) most prominently among hunter-gatherer societies.
• D) as the basis of Amish and Hutterite communities.
• E) mostly in societies with a strong principle of reciprocity.

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Definitions:

Economies of Scale

Cost advantages that a business obtains due to expansion, leading to a reduction in the average cost per unit through increased production.

Diseconomies of Scale

The situation in which a business grows to a point where the costs per unit increase, opposed to saving costs, often due to managerial inefficiencies or complexity.

Constant Returns to Scale

A situation in which increasing the amount of all inputs used in production by a certain factor results in output increasing by the same factor.

Economies of Scale

Cost advantages that enterprises obtain due to their size, output, or scale of operation, with cost per unit of output generally decreasing with increasing scale.