Chapter 3

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Photo Tallardy of learned socially transmitted customs, knowledge, material objects, and behavior is known as

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A fairly large number of people who live in the same territory, are relatively independent of people outside it, and participate in a common culture

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A society is

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A fairly large number of people who live in the same territory, are relatively independent of people outside it, and participate in the common culture.

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A society

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Is the largest form of human group

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Which of the following individuals is most closely associated with the concept of the culture industry?

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Theodore Adorno

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General customs and practices that are found in every culture are called

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Cultural universals

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The tendency to assume that one’s own culture and way of life represent the normal or are superior to all others is called

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Ethnocentrism

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Did his research, Georgia Murdoch determine which of the following to be a cultural Universal?

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Funeral ceremonies

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And American traveling abroad observes local eating chocolate covered crickets. She expresses discussed you were traveling companions. She is exhibiting

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Ethnocentrism

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Which of the following concepts employs the kind of value neutrality in scientific study that Max Weber size being so important?

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Cultural relativism

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Sociology is the systematic study of

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How biology affects human behavior

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Which is sociological perspective suggests that language and symbols offer a powerful way of subculture to feel cohesive and maintain its identity

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Interactionist perspective

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And abstract system of word meanings and symbols for all aspects of culture is called

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Language

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Which sociological perspective would argue that subcultures often emerge because the dominant society unsuccessfully attempted to suppress a practice regarded as improper, such as the use of illegal drugs

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Conflict perspective

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Facing forward in an elevator can be considered a

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Informal norms

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In American society, we often formalize Normas into

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Laws

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A law is

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A form of government of social control

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Informal norms are

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Norms governing every day social behavior, the violation of which raises comparatively little concern.

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Norms that are generally understood but not precisely recorded or known as

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Informal norms

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Mores are

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Norms that are deemed highly necessary to the welfare of a society

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Norms governing every day behavior, the violation of which raises comparatively little concerned, are known as

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Values

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John is pulled over by a police officer for speeding on the Pennsylvania Turnpike. He is given a fine of $120 and sent on his way. This fine is considered a

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Sanction

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Penalties and reward for a contact relating to the social norm Are known as

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Sanctions

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One example of a positive, formal sanction is a

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Salary bonus

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What term refers to the polarization of society over controversial cultural elements such as abortion, religious expression, gun control, and sexual orientation.

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Culture war

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A subculture is

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A segment of society that she has a distinctive pattern of customs, rules, and traditions that differs from the pattern of the larger group

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Which sociological perspective would maintain that the laws of a society are created by the groups and power and help those groups maintain their superior status?

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Conflict perspective

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Dominant ideology is

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A set of cultural believes that help to maintain powerful social, economic, and political interests.

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Discovery is the

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Process of making known or sharing the existence of an aspect of reality

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Invention is the

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Combination of existing cultural items into a form they did not precisely exist

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Diffusion is the

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Process by which a cultural item is spread from group to group or society to society

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The physical or technological aspects of our daily lives are called

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Material culture

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Culture lag

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Period of Maladjustment during which of the Nonmaterial-culture is still adapting to the new material condition

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Culture shock is

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The feelings of surprised that his experience when people witnessed cultural practices different from their own

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A member of the Rural Indian tribe in central America who moves to a larger city, such is Mexico City, will probably experience

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Culture shock