Section Five

Question 1

Interdependence

Answer 1

Human beings live in society because they can best satisfy their needs and wants by working with other members of a society

Question 2

Social organizations

Answer 2

Social organizations driving for the needs and wants of Canadians, provide them with meaning and purpose, and give them direction and discipline

Question 3

Ethnocentrism

Answer 3

The assumption that one’s culture is better than that of others

Question 4

Norms

Answer 4

A set of behaviours with which its members are expected to conform

Question 5

Folkways

Answer 5

Norms governing countless daily practices

Question 6

Mores

Answer 6

Normals containing a society’s basic ideas of right and wrong, good and bad. Laws

Question 7

Sanctions

Answer 7

Rewards and punishments

Question 8

Sociologists

Answer 8

Social scientists who study the behaviour of people in groups

Question 9

Peer group

Answer 9

A group whose members are approximately the same age and who have similar interests

Question 10

Role models

Answer 10

Those around us whom we respect, admire, and trust

Question 11

Cultural relativism

Answer 11

The principle that every culture is important and deserving of respect

Question 12

Anthropologists

Answer 12

Social scientists who study other cultures

Question 13

Retribution

Answer 13

A level of punishment approximately equivalent to the offence committed

Question 14

Rejection

Answer 14

May take the form of avoiding the offender, pretending they don’t exist, or actually physically removing them from the community

Question 15

Culture

Answer 15

The knowledge, beliefs, arts, morals, laws, customs, and other habits acquired as a result of living together in a group