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Formal Structure, Formal Inequality?: Diversity in the State and Global Societies
Multiple Choice
1
In the ________, kinship is not a central organizing principal of political organization.
A)
kingdom
B)
band
C)
melange
D)
state
2
In the state, kinship is superceded by the concept of ____________.
A)
fealty.
B)
ethnicity.
C)
citizenship.
D)
moiety membership.
3
The state is associated with a ______________ military.
A)
permanent, professional
B)
all-volunteer
C)
gender-segregated
D)
politically insignificant
4
In a state society, the roles of peasant women
A)
are completely helpless.
B)
are generally quite different from those of elite women.
C)
are strikingly similar to the lives of elite women, since rank is always subordinate to gender.
D)
are very simple and predictable.
5
The idea that male superiority is morally right
A)
rapidly fades with the development of the secular state.
B)
has no currency in industrialized nations in the 21st century.
C)
is supported by Old Testament religious concepts.
D)
is restricted to societies ruled by fundamentalist religious figures.
6
Women in the Spanish village of Los Olivos lost their independence and security as a result of
A)
the Spanish Civil War.
B)
the election of fundamentalist Catholic politicians to positions of power.
C)
a shift from an agricultural economy to wage labor.
D)
an increase in out-of-wedlock pregnancy.
7
Women in peasant populations gain political voice when
A)
legislation provides them with voting rights.
B)
development programs introduce modern economic systems to replace subsistence economies.
C)
they have officially recognized rights to land.
D)
traditional religious systems are replaced by a secular humanist ideology.
8
Women who wear the overcoats, shawls and veils in Saudi Arabia
A)
are members of the uneducated lower class.
B)
are members of the elite, and do not work outside the home.
C)
may be educated professionals pursuing careers in medicine or law.
D)
express a unanimous desire to throw off these items of clothing.
9
Women in modern industrialized democracies are elected to high office
A)
in a frequency proportionate with the percentage of women in the population.
B)
much more often in nations where an ideology of gender equity exists at the peasant or working class level of society.
C)
infrequently, and only if they have access to extraordinary resources.
D)
as representatives of the peasant or working class to which they belong.
10
In modern Japan, urban middle class women
A)
are not protected from discrimination in the work place.
B)
have no authority over household finance decisions because they do not work outside the home.
C)
bear considerable responsibility for their children's success in school.
D)
enjoy significant levels of autonomy.
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