Author Question: In most cases, in pre-modern societies, the elderly are respected: a. When they have wealth, ... (Read 19 times)

nelaaney · **on:** Jul 10, 2018

In most cases, in pre-modern societies, the elderly are respected:

a. When they have wealth, power, and descendents.
b. To a far greater extent than in most modern societies.
c. But only after they have grandchildren.
d. If they are male. If they are female, not so much.
e. Because they control access to land and water.

Question 2

The extended family seems to have clear advantages:

a. In stable cultivating societies where ownership of land is important.
b. In hunting and gathering societies living on the margins of existence.
c. In industrial societies with large urban populations.
d. In socialist rather than capitalist societies.
e. Where marriage is a matter of free choice rather than arrangement.