Question 39 of 50

What legislative action in 1982 significantly altered the political and civil status of the Rohingya people in Myanmar?

What specific tool, established by the Belgian colonial government in 1933, was later used by Hutu death squads to identify Tutsi victims during the 1994 Rwandan genocide?

According to the text, how many countries gathered at the Berlin Conference of 1884–1885 to negotiate the division of African resources?

What was the U.S. government's official pretax income poverty line for a family of four in 2018?

On December 3, 2015, Defense Secretary Ash Carter announced a major policy shift regarding gender in the U.S. military. What was this change?

What concept does the text attribute to French social scientist Michel Foucault to describe the power of the state to regulate the body, particularly in the context of managing intersexuality through medical interventions?

The grassroots women's organization CO-MADRES emerged in El Salvador to challenge the state's brutal actions. What was one of the initial political tactics they used to pressure the government?

What federal law mandates that college administrations address sexual assault to ensure gender equality in federally funded institutions?

In her study 'Carnal Knowledge and Imperial Power,' what does cultural anthropologist Ann Stoler argue was a primary purpose of controlling sexuality in European colonies?

According to Karl Marx's theory of class, what is the defining characteristic of the bourgeoisie?

In his critique of modernization theories, what did Immanuel Wallerstein's modern world systems analysis identify as the role of periphery countries?

What is the economic philosophy that re-emerged in the 1970s, advocating for the free market as the main mechanism for economic growth and promoting privatization and reduced government intervention?

The U.S. Supreme Court ruling in Loving v. Virginia on June 13, 1967, was a landmark decision that affected what aspect of marriage and race?

What does Pierre Bourdieu's concept of 'social reproduction' describe in the context of the educational system?

What term does the text use for the political, military, and religious leaders who promote a worldview through the lens of ethnicity and use war and propaganda to mobilize people against perceived enemies?

According to the American Academy of Pediatrics policy statement from the year 2000, the birth of a child with ambiguous genitalia was considered what kind of event?

According to research by sociologist Sara Dorow on transnational adoption from China, what is the estimated percentage of adoptions in China that are of girls?

The Harlem Birth Right Project, led by Leith Mullings, uncovered a significant health disparity. Infant mortality rates in Harlem were how many times the rate of New York City's overall?

The 2015 U.S. Transgender Survey revealed that a significant percentage of respondents avoided using a public restroom in the past year due to fear of confrontations or other problems. What was this percentage?

What term does Max Weber use to refer to the opportunities an individual has to improve their quality of life and realize their goals, which are determined by their class position?

In what year did the U.S. Supreme Court legalize same-gender marriage nationwide?

What is the primary argument of dependency theory as a critique of modernization theories?

In the context of the Flint water crisis, who made the decision to switch the city's water source to the Flint River?

According to the analysis of the Indian caste system, which group was considered completely outside and below the four main varna, assigned the most spiritually polluting work?

The economic model of Fordism was based on a social compact between labor, corporations, and government. What was one of Henry Ford's key innovations central to this model?

What does Leith Mullings's concept of 'intersectionality' provide a framework for analyzing?

Following the 1947 partition of India and Pakistan, the governments of both countries passed legislation to address the issue of abducted women. What did this legislation do?

In her study of a working-class neighborhood in Nicaragua, what distinction did Roger Lancaster find regarding same-gender sexual acts between men?

What is the term for a system of power based on wealth, income, and status that creates an unequal distribution of a society's resources?

What is a potlatch, as practiced among the Kwakiutl of the Pacific Northwest?

According to the chapter, what was the average salary ratio of corporate CEOs to average workers in the United States by 2017?

In her ethnography 'Reproducing Jews,' Susan Kahn describes how the Israeli state provides support for single Jewish mothers who give birth through artificial insemination. What is the state's reasoning for this policy?

In Pem Davidson Buck's analysis of poor whites in rural Kentucky, what strategy did elites use to prevent solidarity between poor whites and laborers of other races?

How does the World Bank classify countries in its Gini index?

What term refers to the process through which new immigrants and their children enculturate into the dominant national culture while also retaining their own ethnic culture?

What is the concept of the 'imagined community,' as conceived by political scientist Benedict Anderson?

What does the term 'structural gender violence' refer to?

What is the term for an autonomous regional structure of political, economic, and military rule with a central government authorized to make laws and use force?

In the early 20th century, De Beers hired an advertising agency to create a market for diamonds. What was a key part of their political and cultural strategy?

What is the name of the theory that emerged as a critique of modernization theory, arguing that a continued pattern of unequal economic relations persists despite the formal end of colonial political and military control?

In her ethnography of Wall Street, what does Karen Ho identify as a surprising outcome of corporations laying off workers and downsizing?

What is the primary difference between a lineage and a clan as types of descent groups?

What is the term for a critique of modernization theory which suggests that poor countries are not intrinsically flawed but are poor as a result of their relationship to an unbalanced global economic system?

According to the chapter, what two national infrastructure projects were crucial in transforming a diverse population into a unified French people with a common identity?

What is the definition of 'gender stratification'?

In the study of Hutu refugees in Tanzania, what term does anthropologist Liisa Malkki use for the stories through which refugees worked to remake sense of their past, present, and future and reimagine their conceptions of community and ethnic identity?

In his study of a small western Mexican town, what did Jennifer Hirsch find was a consequence of the shift to companionate marriage?

According to Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels's 'Communist Manifesto,' what is 'class consciousness'?

What is the term for strategies like offshoring and outsourcing that corporations use to accumulate profits in an era of globalization?