Why are people more likely to marry individuals with social and cultural backgrounds very similar to their own? a. parents and other family members always exert pressure to marry within the group. b. people spend a great deal of time alone, and therefore can have few opportunities for meeting people. c. people develop irrational fears of out-group members and are scared to date them. d. people have greater access to individuals like themselves.

It would be D, "People have greater access to individuals like themselves".

Explanation: Because people with the same culture share the same vision of life,  the same social identity,  habits and customs that includes marital matters,  and in this frame is common that people of the same group tend to chose individuals similar to their own.

In this sense, we may define culture such as the set of knowledge, ideas, traditions and customs that characterize  people or a social group.

every society, in order to meet the needs of it's people, has to answer three basic questions:

- what should we produce?

- how should we produce it?

- for whom should we produce it?

this questions must be answered in order to, option b, aid in production decisions.

every country can't produce everything, no matter how rich their land is. it may be a matter of technology, resources or geographical conditions. so, these three questions must be resolved in order to get the most of the production of each land.

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