ASSIGNMENT 1 FOR 1ST SEMESTER 2024
SOC1501
2024
, Started on Monday, 11 March 2024, 8:30 PM
State Finished
Completed on Wednesday, 13 March 2024, 11:35 AM
Time taken 1 day 15 hours
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Choose the correct answer. Which of the following statement/s can best be described as a case of
mortality.
1. A woman losing her life as a result of a motor car accident.
2. Being absent from work as a result of an illness.
3. Having your leg cut off as a result of an arthritic infection.
4. A man losing normal functioning of his limbs after falling of a high mountain cliff.
Select one:
a.
2
b.
2 and 3
c.
1
d.
4
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1
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Choose the correct answer. Which of the following statements highlight the fact that human cultures
differ in terms of their values and sentiments?
1.The practice of the nomadic San people to abandon aged members of their group.
2.The practice of Eskimo communities to permit a houseguest to sleep with the wife of the male head of
the household.
3.The practice of the Xhosa people to demand cattle in exchange for another family to take their daughter
as a bride.
4.The practice of Jewish men to circumcise the foreskin of their penis.
Select one:
a.
2&4
b.
1, 2 & 4
c.
3
d.
1, 2, 3 & 4
e.
2
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1, 2, 3 & 4
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Choose the correct answer. Which alternatives to Western knowledge is advocated by decoloniality
proponents?
1. Epistemic violence, epistemic obedience, epistemic break.
2. Epistemic disobedience, border theories, epistemic delinking.
3. Rewesternisation, Occidentalism, epistemological fundamentalism.
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