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	Material culture is consistently the same in most societies around the world.

	True False

	Disorientation, confusion, and even fear that a person experiences when being confronted by a new and totally different culture is called culture shock.

	True False

	Ethnocentrism has positive, as well as negative, consequences.

	True False

	A person who is ethnocentric makes a sincere effort to understand other cultures in those cultures' own terms.

	True False

	Nonmaterial culture is often referred to as symbolic culture because its central component is the symbols that people use.

	True False

	Although language may differ considerably from one culture to another, gestures are commonly understood by people throughout the world.

	True False

	The central sociological significance of language is that it allows culture to develop by freeing people to move beyond their immediate experience.

	True False

	Subcultures are not necessarily evil or threatening to society, they simply have a distinctive way of looking at life or some aspect of it.

	True False

	Values usually fall into neat, integrated packages that make value contradictions uncommon for most members of society.

	True False

	Because of a greater desire for people to recognize their ethnic roots, cultural diffusion and cultural leveling have both decreased.

	True False

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Material culture is consistently the same in most societies around the world.

Disorientation, confusion, and even fear that a person experiences when being confronted by a new and totally different culture is called culture shock.

Ethnocentrism has positive, as well as negative, consequences.

A person who is ethnocentric makes a sincere effort to understand other cultures in those cultures' own terms.

Nonmaterial culture is often referred to as symbolic culture because its central component is the symbols that people use.

Although language may differ considerably from one culture to another, gestures are commonly understood by people throughout the world.

The central sociological significance of language is that it allows culture to develop by freeing people to move beyond their immediate experience.

Subcultures are not necessarily evil or threatening to society, they simply have a distinctive way of looking at life or some aspect of it.

Values usually fall into neat, integrated packages that make value contradictions uncommon for most members of society.

Because of a greater desire for people to recognize their ethnic roots, cultural diffusion and cultural leveling have both decreased.