SET 5

Question 1

Diverse cultures within a society. Different languages or cultural patterns. Offer opportunities for creativity and change such as the following:
Can reject prevailing values and norms.
Can promote alternatives to dominant culture.
Can act as force of change.

Answer 1

Subcultures

Question 2

The process by which different cultures are absorbed into the mainstream culture.

Answer 2

Assimilation

Question 3

Respecting cultural diversity and promoting equality of different sub-cultures within the culture.

Answer 3

Multiculturalism

Question 4

Judging other cultures in terms of one’s own standards. Is the attitude that one’s own culture is superior to those of other peoples.

Answer 4

Ethnocentrism

Question 5

Judging a society by its own standards. Is the belief that culture must be understood on its own terms.

Answer 5

Cultural relativism

Question 6

Common features of human behavior found in all societies.

Answer 6

Cultural Universals

Question 7

Food-getting technology, Housing, Language, Marriage, Art, Incest taboos, Cooking, Medicine, Joking ect.

Answer 7

Examples of Cultural Universals

Question 8

Increased global communications and economic interdependence represent more than the growth of world unity.

Answer 8

Global Culture

Question 9

Television, unified global economy, global citizens, international organizations, electronic communications.

Answer 9

Forces for Global Culture