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Title: What is the basis of India's caste system?
Post by: Luasene on Mar 21, 2018
What is the basis of India's caste system?
 
  A) race
  B) religion
  C) ethnicity
  D) education

Question 2

Which American sociologist described the years of American colonial slavery when he said that gradually the entire white South became an armed camp to keep Negroes in slavery and to kill the black rebel?
 
  A) Benjamin Quarles
  B) W. E. B. Du Bois
  C) Booker T. Washington
  D) George Washington Carver

Question 3

A system of beliefs that justifies a particular social arrangement, such as slavery, is called ________.
 
  A) a constitution
  B) class consciousness
  C) a caste system
  D) an ideology

Question 4

In colonial America, immigrants were transported to the new world on credit by the captain of the ship, who then sold their services to wealthy colonists who paid their passage.
 
  In return, these immigrants worked for a specified period of time and were known as ________ or ________.
  A) colonial slaves; domestic workers
  B) jati; untouchables
  C) indentured servants; bonded laborers
  D) probationers; manservants

Question 5

Why did the XYY chromosome theory fall out of favor as an explanation for criminal behavior?
 
  A) It was discovered there are no longer any XYY chromosome configurations among men.
  B) Most criminals do not have XYY and everyone with XYY is not a criminal.
  C) The work of the theorist who proposed the theory was plagiarized.
  D) The theory only explains deviant and criminal behavior among females.

Question 6

What is a group's formal and informal means of enforcing norms called?
 
  A) social solidarity
  B) the social imperative
  C) social control
  D) social bond


Title: What is the basis of India's caste system?
Post by: Mansi on Mar 21, 2018
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