Module 2

Question 1

According to the text, what is the main difference between class and caste?

Answer 1

Castes are justified mainly by religion; classes are not.

Question 2

At a McDonald’s restaurant, food ingredients, cooking times, portion sizes, and even the “specials” recited by people taking your order are precisely regulated, providing a uniform experience in McDonald’s restaurants across the country. What does the McDonald’s experience exemplify?

Answer 2

Rationalization

Question 3

The Sapir-Whorf hypothesis sets out the relationship among verbalization (language), conceptualization (thought), and experience. According to Sapir and Whorf, what is the causal order of these three elements?

Answer 3

Experience – conceptualization – verbalization – experience

Question 4

Which of the following describes a latent function?

Answer 4

A university is a “marriage market”, that is, a competitive forum for the establishment of long-term intimate relations between individuals.

Question 5

In Canada, what have cultural diversification, multiculturalism, and globalization created?

Answer 5

A post modern society.

Question 6

what is culture?

Answer 6

the socially transmitted practices, languages, symbols, beliefs, values, ideologies, and material objects that people create to deal with real life problems.

Question 7

what is society?

Answer 7

a number of people who interact, usually in a defined territory, and share a culture.

Question 8

define abstraction

Answer 8

the human capacity to create general ideas or ways of thinking that are not linked to particular instances

Question 9

what are norms?

Answer 9

generally accepted ways of doing things

Question 10

what is taboo?

Answer 10

the strongest type of norm. when someone violates a taboo, it causes revulsion in the community and punishment is severe.

Question 11

what is ethnocentrism?

Answer 11

the tendency to judge other cultures exclusively by the standards of your own