The chapter includes information about children in India from the lowest caste being deformed by their relatives to ensure their success as beggars. This story illustrates the fact that
a. membership in a group can affect health and life.
b. beggars are the lowest caste in India for good reason.
c. membership in a low-status group is less hazardous than membership in a high-status group.
d. the caste system in India is the same as social classes in the United States.
Question 2
Who studied the effects of groupthink on a cult who believed a great flood would wash away the West Coast in 1956?
a. Solomon Asch unfair competition
b. Albert Bandura a caveat emptor (let the buyer beware) philosophy
c. Muzafer Sherif cultural paradox
d. Leon Festinger the ecology crises
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