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Multiple Choice
For each question, choose the single best answer.

This activity contains 15 questions.

	Beliefs, values, and other assumptions about the world are examples of:   Non-normative components of society. Material culture. Nonmaterial culture. Normative components of society.

	A tendency to use our own group's ways of doing things as a yardstick for judging others is called:   Eurocentricities. Cultural relativism. Ethnocentrism. Ethno-relativism.

	Understanding a culture on its own terms is called:   Ethnocentrism. Cultural relativism. Ethno-relativism. Eurocentricities.

	In his book Sick Societies, anthropologist Robert Edgerton suggested that:   a model culture be established that all people could emulate. all cultures be accepted on their own merit and beliefs. a scale be developed to evaluate cultures based on their "quality of life". culture is relative and there is no way to objectively compare one culture to another.

	A type of written gestures that help convey the feelings that go with words are called:   latent messages. emoticons. dysfunctional discourse. body cues.

	The author claims that language facilitates all of the following, except:   shared perspective. shared past. cumulative human experience. identical experience of apes and other animals.

	All of the following are true about the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis, except:   their original assumptions were incorrect. their hypothesis is still valid today. They studied the Hopi. Their original assumptions were inaccurate.

	When we either follow or break norms, we see _____ in people's reactions.   values sanctions deviations norms.

	According to the author, "one groups _____ may be another group's ______.   Law/taboo Gesture/folkway. Hero/villain. Folkways/mores

	Which of the following groups is most likely to be classified as a counterculture?   Members of the NAACP A group of survivalists living in Montana A group of New York cab drivers A group of students belonging to the Middle Eastern Student Association

	In respect to dominant-minority group relations, the United States can best be described as a/an:   assimilated society pluralistic society melting pot subjugated society

	According to sociologist Robin Williams, Americans who emphasize helpfulness, personal kindness, aid in mass disasters, and organized philanthropy are practicing the core value of:   humanitarianism material comfort individualism achievement and success

	A "culture war" is best illustrated by which of the following examples?   The presence of one Democrat and two Republicans serving as County Commissioners together. The presence of an ROTC unit on a college campus. Christians celebrating Easter and Muslims celebrating Ramadan. Pro-life advocates demonstrating in front of a family planning clinic.

	The primary differing factor between tools and technology:   has lead to workers compensation. sets a framework for a group's nonmaterial culture. can be equated to tools and the technology to use them. are minor modifications of existing technologies.

	The term cultural lag, which means that not all parts of a culture change at the same pace, was coined by sociologist ____________________.   Robert Merton William Ogburn C. Wright Mills Talcott Parsons

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