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Recognizing Culture MCQ

1. A consumer culture begins to appear in ______ societies.

Hunter-gatherer

Industrial/postindustrial

Agrarian

Horticultural/pastoral

Answer

Correct Answer: Industrial/postindustrial

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2. ______ societies use tools to develop crops and domesticate animals, producing both on a large scale.

Hunter-gatherer

Pastoral

Agrarian

Horticultural

Answer

Correct Answer: Agrarian

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3. Unlike nonmaterial culture, material culture includes ______.

Language

Symbols

Norms

Artifacts

Answer

Correct Answer: Artifacts

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4. Which of the following exemplifies a cultural universal?

Shaking hands

Voting

Playing cards

Singing

Answer

Correct Answer: Singing

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5. The Sapir-Whorf hypothesis describes the influence of ______ on our understanding of reality.

Language

Artifacts

Values

Institutions

Answer

Correct Answer: Language

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6. Asha is the child of a prominent diplomat. As such, she has become fluent in three different languages, traveled to many different nations, and received cello lessons since she was very young. Asha has developed which of the following?

Cultural relativism

Cultural capital

Material culture

Social identity

Answer

Correct Answer: Cultural capital

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7. Which term best describes expectations about socially appropriate thoughts, feelings, and behaviors of people in various situations?

Beliefs

Norms

Roles

Values

Answer

Correct Answer: Norms

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8. Due to its means of existence, ______ societies tend to be more egalitarian.

Agrarian

Horticultural/pastoral

Hunter-gatherer

Industrial/post-industrial

Answer

Correct Answer: Hunter-gatherer

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9. Which term best describes the culture of elites?

Counterculture

Subculture

Popular culture

High culture

Answer

Correct Answer: High culture

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10. ______ is one’s ability to understand social relationships and get along with others.

Cultural capital

Folkway

Social intelligence

Status

Answer

Correct Answer: Social intelligence

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11. Jamal invites Samantha and her wife over to his house for dinner. In these types of situations, it is customary to bring a gift for the host. However, Samantha and her wife do not, as they believe this is a frivolous custom. Their decision is representative of ______.

Agency

Social intelligence

Status

Social identity

Answer

Correct Answer: Agency

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12. ______ are rules of behavior for common and routine interactions or activities.

Folkways

Values

Norms

Answer

Correct Answer: Folkways

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13. Sociologists typically describe culture as ______.

Socially constructed

Innate

Universal

Material

Answer

Correct Answer: Socially constructed

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14. When a talk radio host keeps referring to what "everyone" knows is morally wrong behavior, he is referencing ______.

Universal beliefs

Social agency

The generalized other

Material culture

Answer

Correct Answer: The generalized other

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15. Which term best describes cultural groups that exist within a larger culture?

Multiculturalism

Subcultures

Popular culture

High culture

Answer

Correct Answer: Subcultures

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16. What a society holds to be desirable, good, and important is called _____.

Values

Norms

Beliefs

Morals

Answer

Correct Answer: Values

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17. Anything that has the same meaning for two or more people is called _____.

Symbol

Sign

Metaphor

Motif

Answer

Correct Answer: Symbol

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18. Cultural groups that exist within another, larger culture is called _____.

Subcultures

Counter culture

Co-culture

Dominant culture

Answer

Correct Answer: Subcultures

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19. Our ability to understand social relationships and get along with others is called ____.

Social intelligence

Emotional intelligence

Congiitve intelligence

Cultural intelligence

Answer

Correct Answer: Social intelligence

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20. Notes that language influences our understanding of reality above and beyond the meaning of its symbols is known as ____.

Sapir whorf hypothesis

Linguistic relativity

Culture work

None of these

Answer

Correct Answer: Sapir whorf hypothesis

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21. Culture that exists among common people in a society is called _____ culture.

Popular

Counter

Cross

Elite

Answer

Correct Answer: Popular

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22. Expectations about the appropriate thoughts, feelings, and behaviors of people in a variety of situations is called ____.

Norms

Values

Beliefs

Answer

Correct Answer: Norms

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23. Concepts such as norms, values, beliefs, symbols, and language is called _____ culture.

Non material

Material

Cross

Counter

Answer

Correct Answer: Non material

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24. The ideal of ____ is that people respect differing cultures in a society and honor their unique contributions to a larger, “umbrella” culture that incorporates multiple subcultures .

Multiculturalism

Pluralism

Diversity

Assimilation

Answer

Correct Answer: Multiculturalism

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25. Widely held beliefs about what is considered moral and just behavior in society is called _____.

Folkways

Norms

Taboo

Answer

Correct Answer: Mores

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26. Consists of artifacts ranging from tools to products designed for leisure. Reflects the values and beliefs of the people who live in a culture is called _____ culture.

Material

Counter

Low

Elite

Answer

Correct Answer: Material

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27. A series of symbols used to communicate meaning among people is called _____.

Language

Dialect

Parole

Linguistics

Answer

Correct Answer: Language

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28. The culture of elites is known as _____.

High culture

Popular culture

Pop culture

Low culture

Answer

Correct Answer: High culture

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29. Our perceptions of the attitudes of a whole community is called Generalized other.

True

False

Answer

Correct Answer: True

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30. Rules of behavior for common and routine interactions is called _____.

Folkways

Laws

Taboos

Answer

Correct Answer: Folkways

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31. Cultural practices that exist in most or all societies like dance,song,art,religious beliefs, rituals, families, a division of labor, and politic is called ______.

Cultural universals

Cultural particulars

Cultural relativism

Personal behavior

Answer

Correct Answer: Cultural universals

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32. The idea that cultures cannot be ranked as better or worse than others is called Cultural Relativism.

True

False

Answer

Correct Answer: True

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33. A type of capital related to education, style, appearance, and dress that promotes social mobility is called _____ .

Cultural capital

Social capital

Economic capital

Habitus

Answer

Correct Answer: Cultural capital

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34. Cases in which one group in a society espouses rules, values, or beliefs that conflict with the mainstream culture is called _____.

Counterculture

Subculture

Dominant culture

Contraculture

Answer

Correct Answer: Counterculture

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35. _____are what we deem to be true.

Beliefs

Values

Opinion

Facts

Answer

Correct Answer: Beliefs

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36. The ability to act and think independently of social constraints is called ______.

Agency

Company

Bureau

Firm

Answer

Correct Answer: Agency

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