Pop culture

Question 1

[There are] at least six mutually related ideas about culture that we call inadequate.

Answer 1

1. Culture is homogenous.
   2.Culture is a thing.
2. Culture is uniformly distributed among members of a group.
3. An individual possesses but a single culture.
4. Culture is custom.
   6.Culture is timeless

Question 2

This presumes that a (local) culture is free of internal paradoxes and contradictions such that (a) it provides clear and unambiguous behavioral “instructions” to individuals - a program for how to act - or (b) once grasped or learned by an outsider, it can be characterized in relatively straightforward ways (“the Dobuans are paranoid”*).

Answer 2

1. Culture is homogenous.

Question 3

The reification of culture - regarding culture as a thing - leads to a notion that “it” is a thing that can act, almost independently of human actors. There is no hint of individual agency here.

Answer 3

Culture is a thing

Question 4

A good contemporary example of this sort of thinking is ___ “clash of civilization argument.

Answer 4

Samuel Huntington’s

Question 5

The term is used as a shorthand way of referring, as we shall see, to bundles of ______ and _____, and it is a series of short (cognitive) steps from shorthand to metonymy to reification.

Answer 5

complicated cognitive and perceptual processes

Question 6

Intracultural variation, whether at the individual or group level, is ignored or dismissed as ?.

Answer 6

deviance

Question 7

This idea imputes cognitive, affective, and behavioral uniformity to all members of the group.

Answer 7

3. Culture is uniformly distributed among members of a group.

Question 8

He or she is simply a Somali, a Mexican, or an American. Culture is thus synonymous with group identity.

Answer 8

4. An individual possesses but a single culture.

Question 9

was then compounded by ____ who took up the notion of culture (as “political culture”) and privileged the nation-state as their unit of analysis
- hence the “national character” idea.

Answer 9

political scientists

Question 10

was then compounded by political scientists who took up the notion of culture (as “political culture”) and privileged the nation-state as their unit of analysis
- hence the “ ____ _____” idea.

Answer 10

national character

Question 11

person possesses and controls several cultures in the same way, as sociolinguists tell us, that even a so-called monolingual speaker controls different
“
______” of the same language or dialect.

Answer 11

registers

Question 12

This idea holds that culture is structurally undifferentiated, that what you see is what you get.

Answer 12

Culture is custom

Question 13

The culture here reduces to a sort of surface-level etiquette. Cultural variation is, as _____ ___ once put it, merely a matter of “differential etiquette”.

Answer 13

Peter Black

Question 14

The culture here reduces to a sort of surface-level etiquette. Cultural variation is, as _____ ___ once put it, merely a matter of “differential etiquette”.

Answer 14

Peter Black

Question 15

The culture here reduces to a sort of surface-level etiquette. Cultural variation is, as Peter Black once put it, merely a matter of “?

Answer 15

differential etiquette”.

Question 16

. .
Closely related to the culture-is-custom view (indeed, to all of the above views), the idea that culture is timeless imputes a changeless quality to culture, especially to so-called traditional ones.

Answer 16

Culture is timeless.

Question 17

. .
Closely related to the culture-is-custom view (indeed, to all of the above views), the idea that culture is timeless imputes a changeless quality to culture, especially to so-called traditional ones.

Answer 17

Culture is timeless.

Question 18

We speak here, for example, of “the Arab mind” as though a unitary cognizing element has come down to us from _____.

Answer 18

Muhammed’s Mecca

Question 19

These six ____ ideas about culture are related and mutually reinforcing. Using ten reague great did arite, the is one citar contept es au nalytical

Answer 19

inadequate

Question 20

Is a political term referring to a government and a set of formal and legal mechanism that have been established to regulate the political behavior of it’s people

Answer 20

Nation

Question 21

Determine by a nation and not by a culture

Answer 21

Foreign policies

Question 22

This nation is often regarded as so homogeneous that the word Japanese is commonly used to refer both to the nation and to the culture.

Answer 22

Japan

Question 23

Though this,it’s overwhelmingly predominates within the nation of Japan, there are other cultures living there.

Answer 23

Yamato Japanese culture

Question 24

These groups include the Ainu, an indigenous group with their own culture, religion, and language; mainly from ?

Answer 24

Okinawa, Korea, and China;

Question 25

The United States is an excellent
example of a nation that has several major cultural groups living within its geographical boundaries; ___ __ ___
?

Answer 25

European
Americans,
African
Americans,
Native
Americans, Latinos, and various Asian American cultures are all represented in the United States.

Question 26

commonly refers to genetic or biologically based similarities among people, which are distinguishable and unique and function to mark or separate groups of people from one another.

Answer 26

Race