sociology test 2 Test Answers – Flashcards
Flashcard maker : Mya Day
what defines culture?
beliefs, traditions , and practices
Culture tends to be:
Natural environment and what is modified or created by humans
Why did industrialization change European culture so dramatically in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries?
The idea that culture involved the pursuit of intellectual refinement.
One of the two main categories of culture that includes values, beliefs, norms, and behaviors is known as:
Nonmaterial
Everything in our constructed environment, including technology, buildings, furniture, clothing, and books, is part of our:
Material culture
An example of material culture is:
Book
An example of nonmaterial culture is:
Values
The study of culture tells us that:
There are many ways to view the same symbol.
An element of nonmaterial culture known as ____________ is a system of concepts and relationships sometimes used to understand cause and effect.
Ideology
Ideologies are:
Often brought into question when certain aspects of that ideology are challenged.
While they are difficult to define, ____________ are smaller subgroups within a larger dominant society united by sets of concepts, values, symbols, and shared meanings specific to the members of that group.
Subcultures
The various musical genres and the groups inspired by them, such as post-punk music and the goths, are examples of what?
Subcultures
If ____________ are abstract cultural beliefs, then ____________ are how they are put into play.
values; norms
Class mobility and equal opportunity have their roots in:
The United States’ idea of the American Dream.
Norms are to ____________ as values are to ____________.
behavior; attitudes
The experience of internalizing a culture’s norms, values, and the like, is known as:
Socialization
Although some criticize rap music for its violent lyrics, many rappers defend it by saying it emerges directly from their experiences. Those rappers who make these claims are invoking:
Reflection theory
When your friend returns from a study abroad, he reports back to you on the very different foods that people in his host country ate. He explains that to them it’s normal, that people in different cultures do things differently, and that he learned not to make value judgments. This is known as:
Cultural Relativism
If a person judges another group by his or her own standards, he or she is being:
Ethnocentric
