Question 1

A citizen who knows how to fill in the correct forms to register to vote and how to vote in an election is using

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social technology.

Question 2

Which of the following is the subdiscipline of sociology that seeks to discover and understand the shared meanings that implicitly guide social behavior?

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Ethnomethodology

Question 3

Culture is essential to maintain social systems because it provides two crucial functions: stability and

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predictability of action.

Question 4

Judy always wears a ballgown to class or football games. Her friends laugh at her because she is violating a(n)

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societal norm.

Question 5

Which of the following is the correct definition of the term ideologies?

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Shared beliefs about the physical, social, and metaphysical worlds

Question 6

_____ refers to the information, techniques, and tools used by people to satisfy their varied needs and desires.

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Technology

Question 7

Some anthropologists and sociologists believe in the importance of _____, the idea that the customs of a society should not be evaluated by our standards, but evaluated in light of the culture and the functions of those customs for that society.

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cultural relativism

Question 8

When school systems were required to teach that the dominant culture was better than other cultures, they were being told to teach a(n) _____ version of history.

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ethnonormative

Question 9

Traits such as age, sex, race, religion, and social class affect not only the way others perceive individuals but also the way they

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perceive themselves.

Question 10

Ethnocentrism is defined as a(n)

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universal tendency for people to think of their own culture's ways as "right" and all others as "wrong."

Question 11

What must knowledge be in order for it to affect culture?

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Shared

Question 12

In their comparison of Hopi and Anglo use of language, Sapir and Whorf demonstrated _____, the idea that language shapes thought.

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linguistic relativity

Question 13

Which of the following can be defined as societal norms that are viewed so important that to violate them is to violate the morals of a society?

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Mores

Question 14

One way culture is internalized is by psychological identification with _____ to which the individual belongs or wants to belong.

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reference groups

Question 15

Which of the following is the process by which society's demands become part of the individual, acting to control her or his behavior?

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Internalization

Question 16

Defined as cultural patterns that are widespread, _____ constantly shifts as technology advances and as the media promotes new or different ideas and behaviors.

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Popular culture

Question 17

_____ was the 19th century belief or doctrine that it was the destiny of the United States to expand its territory over all of North America.

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Manifest destiny

Question 18

Karen is a newborn baby. She does not know anything about her culture yet, but she will learn it quickly through a process called

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socialization

Question 19

When a carpenter builds a table based on the knowledge and skills that she learned from her teachers and through her own experience, she is drawing on

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material technology.

Question 20

A person's _____ could be defined as the position that person occupies within any of the many organizations or institutions to which he or she belongs.

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status

Quiz 3: Culture