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The ______________ is the process by which people come to define a group as a race based in part on physical characteristics, but also on historical, cultural, and economic factors.

In a closed stratification system, __________ statuses are largely responsible for our social ranking.

________________ is the totality of learned, socially transmitted customs, knowledge, material objects, and behavior.

________________ see social change as evolutionary.

An ________________ is an artificially created situation that allows the researcher to manipulate variables.

________________ are rules of conduct that guide people’s behavior in particular situations.

________________ functions are unconscious or unintended functions.

Although several neural systems are involved in motivation for food, the brain structure most linked to the regulation of hunger and eating is the _______________.

Solomon Asch’s classic social influence research found that when under pressure from the group, about 37% of the subjects ignored their own perception of the line length and went along with the group’s judgment of the line lengths:

People are most likely to report higher levels of happiness in life if they: