Chapter 3 Quiz

SOC  Quiz                                        Chap 3 Culture                  Name: Abby__________          Total points:________

I. Multiple Choice:

1. A   What is the term for the beliefs, values, behavior, and material objects that, together, constitute a people's way of life?

          A.  culture   B. social system     C. social structure   D. society

2. A   Religion is an example of:
A. a "cultural commodity."  B. nonmaterial culture.   C. culture shock.  D. material culture.

3.  B  The tangible things created by members of a society are known as:

          A.  high culture. B.  material culture.  C. human culture.  D. nonmaterial culture.

4. A   The personal disorientation that accompanies exposure to an unfamiliar way of life is termed:

          A.  culture shock.  B. anomie.  C. acculturation.  D. socialization.

5. D   All cultures have at least four components in common. Which of the following contains three of those four?

          A.  Values, social organization, psychic culture   B. Social organization, murder taboo, material culture

          C.   Material culture, psychic culture, symbols     D. Symbols, values, material culture

6. C   A system of symbols that allows people to communicate with one another is a:

          A.  dialect.     B.. culture.    C.  language.      D. cultural artifact.

7. A   Standards by which members of a culture assess desirability, goodness, and beauty are referred to as:

          A.  values.    B. norms.   C. mores.    D. taste.

8. B   Rules and expectations by which a society guides behaviors of its members are called:

          A. values.    B.  prescriptions. C.  norms.    D. taboos.

9. A   _____ is the fact that some cultural elements change more quickly than others, which may disrupt a cultural system

          A.  cultural lag     B.cultural interruption   C. cultural diversity     D. multiculturalism

10. B People perceive the world through the cultural lens of language is called

          A.  eurocentrism     B. Sapir-Whorf thesis    C.  symbolism   D.  cultural relativism

11.     C   _________  means cultural patterns that set apart some segment of  a society’s population.

          A.  popular culture    B. counter culture     C. subculture   D. high culture

12.A  You are attending a New York Ballet performance. You are experiencing:

          A.  popular culture.   B. high culture.   C.  acculturation.  D. subordinate culture.

13. B The practice of persons from one culture judging any other culture by its own standards is called:

          A.  ethnocentrism.   B. cultural relativism.   C. absolutism. D. cultural evaluation.

14. A Judging other culture by our own standards is called

          A.ethnocentrism.   B. cultural relativism.    C. absolutism.  D. cultural evaluation.

15.__A_ is cultural patterns that strongly oppose those widely accepted within a society.

         A. counter culture.    B. popular culture        C. Subculture      D. cultural relativism

II. Short Answers: 

1. What are the major components of culture: language, 16_values and beliefs, 17__norms, 18 Ideal and real culture, and materials/technology

2. The 3 major reasons cause culture change: invention, 19 discovery, and 20 diffusion.

3. List the 5 cultures from the video “10 cultural countdowns”: 21. Japan

22._India________, and 23.______Inuit_____, 24 _______Polynesian_____________, and

25._______Australian____________

      4. Give a real life example to explain Sapir-Whorf thesis: Here in the United States we see green as forests or grass while in the amazon, there are more than 100 types of green, because there they are surrounded by tons of different wild life that would qualify to us as only green.