To understand royal endogamy, it is useful to distinguish between ...

[krzymel]

To understand royal endogamy, it is useful to distinguish between the manifest and latent functions of customs and behavior. The manifest function of a custom refers to the reasons people in a society give for it. Its latent function is
 
  A. the genetically motivated reason for the custom.
  B. a subconscious effect the custom has on the society members' identification with that belief.
  C. the socially constructed perspective of why the custom exists.
  D. an effect the custom has that the society's members don't mention or recognize.
  E. the emic effect the custom has on the society, recognized only by anthropologists.

Question 2

A cross-cultural study that systematically compared romantic love in many cultures found
 
  A. that while people everywhere know what love is, they experience it differently.
  B. evolutionary evidence for romantic love in all the societies surveyed.
  C. a rise in love matches over arranged marriages in industrialized societies, but the opposite trend in nonindustrialized societies.
  D. a scholarly bias throughout the social sciences that views romantic love as a luxury in human life, especially in academia.
  E. evidence that romantic love may be a universal, although romantic love and marriage do not necessarily go together.

[annierak]

Answer to Question 1

Answer: D

Answer to Question 2

Answer: E