Beverly attends a community college and works 30 hours per week in a veterinarian's office to pay her tuition and bills. according to the text, beverly could be best described as a member of the subculture.

Vocational Subculture is the correct answer.

There are 4 types of subculture (such as collegiate, academic, nonconformist, and vocational). While the collegiate subculture focuses on having fun and socializing, the academic subculture identifies with the intellectual concerns of the faculty for its own sake and the nonconformist subculture is hostile to the college environment as a whole. However, the vocational subculture is interested in one's career and does everything that is possible in order to obtain degrees that are paramount for advancement, which is Beverly's ultimate goal when attending a community college and working 30 hours weekly in a vet's office to pay her tuition and bills.

as university of miami psychologists debra lieberman and adam smith pointed out in a recent article in the journal current directions in psychological science, humans have social and psychological mechanisms to deter incest. with very few exceptions, marriages between brothers and sisters and between parents and their children are verboten in every human culture. the primary psychological anti-incest mechanism is the yuck response. even the idea of sex with their mom or dad, bro or sis is upsetting to most people. the psychologist jonathan haidt has found that nearly everyone is repelled by the prospect of brother-sister sex, even in hypothetical situations in which there is no chance of pregnancy).

the biological cost of incest

this raises an interesting question: just what’s so bad about incest? sure, having sex with your dad or your sister seems gross — but why? some anthropologists have argued that incest taboos are learned social conventions. this explanation, however, doesn’t make sense to me as it does not explain the widespread existence of anti-incest mechanisms in creatures ranging from cockroaches to chimpanzees. second, the incest taboo is about as close to a universal law as human moral rules get.

why should mechanisms to avoid incest be so widespread both in nature and across human societies? the answer is simple. the problem with having sex close with relatives is that there is an astonishingly high chance that your offspring will be born with a serious birth defect.