Section 3.1

Question 1

Why do people need to know unwritten rules?

Answer 1

It helps people feel secure and at ease and fundamental in understanding humor in different cultures.

Question 2

What is nonmaterial culture?

Answer 2

The ideas, attitudes, and beliefs of a society, they are intangible.

Question 3

What is material culture?

Answer 3

Items you can touch-they are tangible.

Question 4

What are culture universals?

Answer 4

Patterns or traits that are globally common to all societies.

Question 5

What did Murdock learn about cultural universals?

Answer 5

Cultural universals revolve around basis human survival, such as finding food, clothing, and shelter or around shared human experiences, such as birth and death or illness and healing.

Question 6

What is ethnocentrism and is it good or bad?

Answer 6

To evaluate and judge another culture based on one’s own cultural norms. It’s bad.

Question 7

Why should sociologists encourage cultural relativism?

Answer 7

Cultural relativism is the practice of assessing a culture by its own standard rather than viewing it through the lens of one’s own culture.