Quiz #2 (Chapter 2: Culture and Society)

Question 1

what theorist argued that different groups possess “cultural capital”?

Answer 1

Pierre Bourdieu

Question 2

Eileen bases her beliefs about members of other groups on stereotypes. Sociologically, what is the belief that Eillen has about other groups called?

Answer 2

Prejudice

Question 3

A short-lived, highly popular, and widespread behavior, style, or mode of thought is known as what concept?

Answer 3

Fad

Question 4

Which is NOT an example of a fad?

Answer 4

The Pledge of Allegiance

Question 5

All of the following are true about symbols EXCEPT?

Answer 5

Symbols do not represent feelings or ideas

Question 6

According to the text, what was NOT an American value identified by sociologist Robin Williams Jr.?

Answer 6

Altruism

Question 7

Charles is an American who moved to China. Charles felt disorientation and uncertainty of what was culturally expected when he moved. What did Charles experience?

Answer 7

Cultural sock

Question 8

What are the processes by which members of a culture engage in a routine behavior to express their sense of belonging to the culture known as?

Answer 8

Rituals

Question 9

Which of the following is an example of a counterculture?

Answer 9

White Supremacist Survivalists

Question 10

Which of the following is an example of nonmaterial culture?

Answer 10

Democracy

Question 11

Which best describes the culture?

Answer 11

Culture refers to the sets of values and ideals that we understand to define morality, good, and evil, appropriate and inappropriate.

Question 12

When a country’s culture is deliberately imposed on another country this is called?

Answer 12

Cultural Imperialism

Question 13

What is a group of people within a culture who share some distinguishing characteristic, belief, value, or attribute that sets them apart from the dominant culture called?

Answer 13

Subculture

Question 14

The vast differences that can exist between the world’s many cultures are representative of what concept?

Answer 14

Cultural Diversity

Question 15

Culture that consists of things people make and the things people use to make them is known as?

Answer 15

Material

Question 16

Which best describes language?

Answer 16

Language is an organized set of symbols by which people are able to think and communicate with other.

Question 17

Which term refers to the spreading of new ideas through a society, independent of a population movement?

Answer 17

Cultural diffusion

Question 18

Culture that is associated with more affluent and largely White groups may be referred to as what form of culture?

Answer 18

High

Question 19

Which hypothesis proposes that language shapes our perceptions?

Answer 19

Sapir-Whorf

Question 20

Enthnocentrism is based in what belief?

Answer 20

A belief that one’s culture is superior to others.

Question 21

Which is not true about mores?

Answer 21

They are weak norms that are informally enforced.

Question 22

Which best describes values?

Answer 22

Ethical foundations of a culture, ideas about right and wrong, good and bad.

Question 23

Which best describes the term cultural lag?

Answer 23

When societies experience the gap between technology and material culture and its social beliefs and institutions.

Question 24

What makes a counterculture different than a subculture?

Answer 24

It identifies itself with being different and in opposition to the dominant culture.

Question 25

Popular culture is often associated with what groups?

Answer 25

Middle and Working class