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The neoevolutionists' perspective differed from the nineteenth-century evolutionists' ideas in a number of ways. The neoevolutionists __________.
 
  A. assumed a unilineal direction for society from savagery to barbarism to civilization
  B. did not assume that sociocultural evolution toward complexity was always equated with progress
  C. were ethnocentric and racist in their approach to understanding cultural evolution and complexity
  D. assumed that civilization was the pinnacle of sociocultural development

Question 2

According to Julian Steward, the environment and the availability of resources has a definite influence on the form of social organization.
 
  This approach to studying cultural evolution, called __________, was exemplified nicely in his study of the social organization of the Shoshone during different seasons of the year.
  A. cultural materialism
  B. environmental determinism
  C. environmentally driven evolution
  D. cultural ecology



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Perkypinki

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Answer to Question 1

Answer: B

Answer to Question 2

Answer: D




audragclark

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Reply 2 on: Jul 10, 2018
Great answer, keep it coming :)


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Reply 3 on: Yesterday
Thanks for the timely response, appreciate it

 

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