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, EWS2601
ENGAGING
WITH SOCIETY: MEETINGTHE CHALLENGES
OF A
CHANGING WORLD
EWS2601
MAY/JUNE2013
UESTION1
A cross-cultural analysis of how different societies classify race Is likely to result in
which of the following observations?
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Racial classification is based on consistently applied measuresof physical difference.
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Racial classification is a reflection of sacial rather than biological categories
Racial classification systems ensure that individuals retain their classification for Irfe.
Racial classification is a social way of quantifying genetic differences between
individuals
5. Racial classification reflects distinctive breaks in the humanphenotype.
Answer: 2
QUESTION2
In the analysis of identity, what does the term "achieved attributes" refer to? They are
identity attributes ...
that are the consequenceof genetic disease.
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acquired over the course of a person’s lifetime
determined at birth by the society one is born into
resulting from historical ethnic and trade diasporas
defined by a community'senvironmental context.
Answer: 2
QUESTION3
Which of the following represents an intangible marker of identity?
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a biker who drives a Harley-Davidson motorcycle
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a Christian nun who wears a black and white habit
a Yao person whose teeth are filed into a distinctwe pattern
a Jewish person's avoidance of foods containing pork
a teenager with the latest smartphone
Answer: 4
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QUESTION
4
Why do some people of Maori descent argue that non-Maori people SHOULDNOT
regard Ta Moko tattoo designs as “free-to-use”?
Because...
1. the tattoo designs are reserved for marking adopted membersof the group, for
examplethose who marry into the Maori community
2 the New Zealand governmenthas outlawed the use of the tattoo designs because they
are a symbol of the fight for Maori independence
3 young Maori use the tattoo designs as a form of protest against current socio-political
conditions such as unemployment
and limited access to state resources.
4 Ta Moko designs are a symbol of what It meansto be Maori and are reflective of the
wearer's cultural, personal and family history
5 the surgery to removesuch tattoos when one is tred of ther 1s extremely painful and a
long, tedious process
Answer: 4
QUESTION5
Completethe following sentence. Retraditionalisation in the context of contemporary
South Africa, as described in the study guide, refers to ...
1 areturn to traditional ways of life, such as the wearing of traditional clothing, a revival
of ancestor rituals and a rejection of Christianity
2. an upsurge of groups in which symbols and customs are revived to identify such
groups as culturally distinct and as being characterised by a unique way of Iife
3 the reinstitution of racial and cultural differences as the overarching rationale for social
and economicdiscrimination.
4 the unification of South Africans irrespective of race or cultural association by drawing
on broad, encompassingAfrican images of the past
Answer: 2
QUESTION
6
After the institution in 1994 of a democratic governmentin South Africa, which notion
of identity was used by chiefs in the Sodwanaarea of Maputalandto open up a way to
provide benefits to membersof their chiefdoms?
National identity
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Transnational identity
Cultural identity
Racial identity
. Religious identity
Answer: 3
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