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Sociology: Chap 3
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| a. a comic book b. patriotic attachment to the flag of the United States c. slang words -- are all examples of what? | Culture. |
| People’s adaptations to meet the needs for food, shelter, and clothing are examples of what George Murdock referred to as... | cultural |
| What term do sociologists use to refer to the process by which a cultural item spreads from group to group or society to society? | diffusion |
| Which of the following statements is true according to the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis? | Language precedes thought. |
| What term best describes the set of cultural beliefs and practices that help to maintain powerful social, economic, and political interests? | dominant idealogy |
| Terrorist groups are examples of... | Countercultures |
| What is the term used when one places a priority on understanding other cultures, rather than dismissing them as “strange” or “exotic”? | cultural relativism |
| _____ are gestures, objects, and/or words that form the basis of human communication. | Symbols; |
| _____ is the process of introducing a new idea or object to a culture. | Innovation; |
| The bow and arrow, the automobile, and the television are all examples of _____ . | inventions; |
| “Put on some clean clothes for dinner” and “Thou shalt not kill” are both examples of _____ found in U.S. culture. | Norms |
| From a _____ perspective, the dominant ideology has major social significance. Not only do a society’s most powerful groups & institutions control wealth & property, more important, they control the means of production. | conflict; |
| The United States has strong _____ against murder, treason, and other forms of abuse that have been institutionalized into formal norms. | Mores (morays) |
| Countercultures (e.g., hippies) are typically popular among the _____ , who have the least investment in the existing culture. | Young |
| From the _____ perspective, subcultures are evidence that differences can exist within a common culture. | functionalist |
| A person experiences _____ when he or she feels disoriented, uncertain, out of place, even fearful when immersed in an unfamiliar culture. | Culture Shock |
| What is the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis? | a hypothesis, first advanced by Edward Sapir in 1929 and subsequently developed by Benjamin Whorf, that the structure of a language determines a native speaker's perception and categorization of experience. |
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