Chapter 3: The Cultural Requirement

Question 1

Values

Answer 1

Abstract ideas of what a group believes to be good, right, desirable
* Society’s attitudes towards concepts like – freedom, democracy,
justice, loyalty, social obligations, collective responsibility, etc.
* Emotional significance
* Form the bedrock of a culture
* Context within which a society’s norms are established and justified.

Question 2

Norms

Answer 2

• The social rules that govern people’s actions toward one another.

Question 3

Folkways

Answer 3

Stem from and organize casual
interactions and emerge from repetition
and routine

Question 4

Mores (More-rays)

Answer 4

• Determine what is considered
  moral and ethical behaviour

Question 5

Society

Answer 5

A group of people who share a common set of values and
norms

Question 6

Nation-states

Answer 6

are political creations and may contain a single or
several cultures

Question 7

2 Dimesons of Social Organization:

Answer 7

1. The degree to which the basic unit of social
   organization is Individual and Groups.
2. The degree to which a society is stratified
   into Classes or Castes

Question 8

Social Mobility

Answer 8

Social mobility refers to the extent to which individuals can move out of the strata into which
they are born.

Question 9

2 Social Mobility subforums:

Answer 9

1. Caste System
2. Class System

Question 10

5 Pieces of Culture and the workplace:

Answer 10

1. Power Distance
2. Individualism Vs. Collectivism
3. Uncertainty avoidance
4. Masculinity Vs. Femininity
5. Long-term Vs. Short-term orientation

Question 11

Circumstances that affect ethical considerations:

Answer 11

1. Political environment
2. Social-cultural environment
3. Technological environment