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What is an age set?
 
  A. a village council
  B. a pantribal sodality that represents a certain level of achievement in the society, much like the stages of an undergraduate's progress through college
  C. all men and women related by virtue of patrilineal descent from a human apical ancestor
  D. all men and women related by virtue of matrilineal descent from a nonhuman apical ancestor
  E. a group uniting men born during a certain span of time in some pastoral African societies

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Why is it important to remember that the chiefdom and the state, like many categories used by social scientists, are ideal types?
 
  A. They distinguish political and sociopolitical analyses among social scientists.
  B. They are useless in sociopolitical analysis.
  C. They represent social goals that politicians should strive to achieve.
  D. They are labels that make social contrasts seem sharper than they really are.
  E. They ensure that the field of anthropology remains more scientific.


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Reply #1 on: Aug 11, 2018
Answer to Question 1

Answer: E

Answer to Question 2

Answer: D


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