Author Question: The view that society consists of institutions that serve vital purposes for its people is known as ... (Read 120 times)

cherise1989 · **on:** Aug 11, 2018

The view that society consists of institutions that serve vital purposes for its people is known as __________.

A. functionalism
B. structuralism
C. servitude
D. utilitarianism

Question 2

One of Franz Boas's principal criticisms of nineteenth-century anthropologists was that __________.

A. they failed to make use of archaeological evidence for pre-literate societies
B. their theories were based on armchair anthropology and not their own fieldwork
C. there was too much cultural relativism in their interpretations
D. they failed to assign adequate importance to biological effects on culture