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Cultural relativism involves judging another culture by the standards of one’s own culture.

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Correct Answer: False

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Sanctions discourage us from violating norms.

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Correct Answer: True

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Modern medical responses to intersexed individuals tend to ______.

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Correct Answer: Support the belief that there are two and only two sexes

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Murder and theft are considered violations of ______.

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Correct Answer: Mores

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The belief that all should attend college is a(n) ______ in the United States.

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Correct Answer: Institutionalized norm

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A group with values, behaviors, and material elements that are distinct from those found in the larger culture is known as a(n) ______.

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Correct Answer: Subculture

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These type of norms tend to be informal and the penalties for violating them are comparatively mild.

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Correct Answer: Folkways

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IPhones, water bottles, automobiles, and graffiti art are examples of ______.

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Correct Answer: Material culture

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Chewing with your mouth open is a violation of a ______.

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Correct Answer: Folkway

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Which of the following is an example of nonmaterial culture in the United States?

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Correct Answer: The Protestant Work Ethic

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Grouping of students into different curricular programs, or tracks, based on an assessment of their academic abilities is called tracking

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Correct Answer: True

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Total institution is a Place where individuals are cut off from the wider society for an appreciable period and where together they lead an enclosed, _____ administered life

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Correct Answer: Formally

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Process through which one learns how to act according to the rules and expectations of a particular culture is called

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Correct Answer: Socialization

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Biological maleness or femaleness is called

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Correct Answer: Sex

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Unique set of traits, behaviors, and attitudes that distinguishes one person from the next; the active source and passive object of behavior is known as

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Correct Answer: Self

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Role taking is ability to see oneself from the perspective of others and to use that perspective in formulating one’s own behavior

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Correct Answer: True

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Resocialization is a Process of learning new values, norms, and expectations when an adult leaves an old role and enters a new one

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Correct Answer: True

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Behavior in which the person initiating an action is the same as the person toward whom the action is directed is called

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Correct Answer: Reflexive behavior

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Stage in the development of self during which a develops the ability to take a role, but only from the perspective of one person at a time is called play stage

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Correct Answer: True

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Looking-glass self is a sense of who we are that is defined by incorporating the reflected appraisals of others

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Correct Answer: True

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Culture in which _____ accomplishments are a more important component of one’s self-concept than group membership is called Individualist culture

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Correct Answer: Personal

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Essential aspect of who we are, consisting of our sense of self, gender, race, ethnicity, and religion is called

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Correct Answer: Identity

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Perspective of the larger society and its constituent values and attitudes is called generalized other..

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Correct Answer: True

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Gender is a psychological, social, and cultural aspects of maleness and femaleness

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Correct Answer: True

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Game stage is a stage in the development of self during which a child acquires the ability to take the role of a group or community (the generalized other) and conform their _____ to broad societal expectations

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Correct Answer: Behaviour

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Control of mating to ensure that “______” genes of troublesome individuals will not be passed on to future generations is known as eugenics

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Correct Answer: Defective

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Culture in which personal accomplishments are less important in the formation of identity than group membership is called

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Correct Answer: Collectivist culture

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Process through which people acquire the values and orientations found in statuses they will likely enter in the future is known as Anticipatory socialization

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Correct Answer: True

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Various individuals, groups, and organizations that influence the socialization process is called agents of socialization

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Correct Answer: True

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State in which one’s gender expression or identity does not conform to the ____ they were assigned at birth is called transgender.

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Correct Answer: Sex

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Values, behaviors, and artifacts of a group that distinguish its members from the larger culture is called

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Correct Answer: Subculture

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Set of norms governing how one is supposed to behave and what one is entitled to when sick is called sick role

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Correct Answer: True

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Belief that two biological sex categories, male and female, are permanent, universal, exhaustive, and mutually exclusive is called

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Correct Answer: Sexual dichotomy

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Social response that punishes or otherwise discourages violations of a social norm is called sanction

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Correct Answer: True

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Knowledge, beliefs, customs, values, morals, and symbols that are shared by members of a society and that distinguish the society from others is called

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Correct Answer: Nonmaterial culture

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Highly codified, formal, ______that bring severe punishment when violated is called mores.

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Correct Answer: Systematized norm

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Artifacts of a society that represent adaptations to the social and physical environment is called Material culture

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Correct Answer: True

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Category of individuals in whom sexual differentiation is either incomplete or ambiguous (also known as people with disorders of sex development) is known as

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Correct Answer: Intersex

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Pattern of behavior within existing social institutions that is widely accepted in a society is known as

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Correct Answer: Institutionalized norm

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Culture in which _______ is accepted as the normal, taken-forgranted mode of sexual expression is known as Heteronormative culture.

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Correct Answer: Heterosexuality

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______ that is mildly punished when violated is called folkway

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Correct Answer: Informal norm

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Tendency to ____ other cultures using one’s own as a standard is known as Ethnocentrism

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Correct Answer: Judge

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Principle that people’s beliefs and activities should be interpreted in terms of their own culture is called Cultural relativism

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Correct Answer: True

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