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Theory Quiz: Cross-Cutting Ties

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1. A simplex relationship is one
involving only one relevant social status for each participant 
most commonly found in primitive societies 
involving people who live in close proximity 
in which all parties harbor strong but unspoken hostility to each other 
in which two parties are destined by cultural rules to marry each other 
No Answer
2. According to the essay, multiplex relationships
can cause people to make war on each other 
can cause people to be peacemakers 
are less likely than simplex relationships to generate conflicting loyalties 
don’t last very long after you leave the theatre 
No Answer
3. A woman is demonstrating the conflicting motivations characteristic of cross-cutting ties if she advertises her used car as a “Dream Car” but refuses to sell it to her cousin because
her cousin doesn’t have enough money 
she is mad at him 
she was hoping to meet somebody dreamier 
he wants to wait a year before paying her 
it isn’t really a dream car and she is willing to lie to a stranger but not to a customer who is also a cousin 
No Answer
4. In small-scale societies, a rule that members of the same clan cannot marry each other results in every household
having members of only one clan 
being forced to occupy two physical houses 
containing members of more than one clan 
being essentially irrelevant to ordinary life because of the importance of clans 
No Answer
5. We know that customs can have unintended but useful social effects, and theorists of cultural evolution sometimes argue that the religious rites in small-scale societies are continued because of those social effects, even if the participants think that only religious effects matter. In such an analysis, religious rites that require participation from several different groups to be religiously effective (Select two.)
cannot be performed without human sacrifice, preferably of someone from the smallest clan 
are inherently simplex 
are inherently multiplex 
should tend to reduce social conflict among groups, at least for a time 
can be predicted to result in severe social inequality because those able to pay for them can easily claim to be superior to other participants 
6. Basically, according to this essay, cross-cutting ties
work by creating anxiety, 
by definition must always include kinship ties 
result in elite trade 
do not occur once a chieftainship level of social organization has been reached 
were eventually replaced by shoelaces 
No Answer

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