Which Is the Key Assumption in Claude Lévi-Strauss's Structuralism

question 67

Multiple Choice

Which is the key assumption in Claude Lévi-Strauss's structuralism?

• A) All myths can be classified as either good or evil.
• B) The human propensity to classify phenomena in certain ways is acquired through enculturation.
• C) There is a very specific role for human agency in culture, and the structure of cultural patterns determines that role.
• D) Cultural patterns determine the human propensity to classify things in certain ways.
• E) Human minds have certain universal characteristics that originate in common features of the Homo sapiens brain and lead people everywhere to think similarly regardless of their society or cultural background.

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Definitions:

Bullwhip Effect

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