Cultural Change Quizizz

Match

Match the following terms to review

• the practice of taking elements from a culture other than your own and using them without proper understanding or respect for the culture being borrowed from

• Judging cultures in term's of your own, believing your culture is superior

• Cultures that coexist within a larger, dominant culture

• Cultures that go against the dominant, mainstream culture

• Subconscious tendency to seek and interpret information and other evidence in ways that affirm our existing beliefs, ideas, expectations,

Cultural appropriation

Ethnocentrism

Subculture

Counterculture

Confirmation bias

• Cultural appropriation

• Ethnocentrism

• Subculture

• Counterculture

• Confirmation bias

Multiple Choice

Why is it important to study cultural change in society?

• To understand how societies adapt and evolve over time

• To memorize historical dates

• To learn only about ancient civilizations

• To ignore differences between cultures

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Fill in the blank: The more isolated a culture is, the ___ change it experiences.

Multiple Choice

Which of the following is NOT a factor that affects the speed and willingness of cultures to change?

• Physical Environment

• Isolation & Contact

• Value Systems

• Technological Advancement

Open Ended

Provide an example of when environment has changed culture, using a culture other than the example of the Inuit.

Multiple Choice

Which of the following statements about value systems and cultural change is correct?

• Value systems always speed up cultural change.

• Traditional beliefs can inhibit cultural change.

• Value systems have no impact on culture.

• Modernization is always accepted regardless of values.

Open Ended

Provide an example of when value systems has created or prevented cultural change. You can google if you need assistance.

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Open Ended

What are positives about not contacting previously uncontacted tribes? What are negatives? Give an example.

Open Ended

Reflecting on what you just wrote in response to previous uncontacted tribes, could any of your statements be considered ethnocentric? Yes/no and why/why not?

Multiple Choice

Which of the following best describes the impact of social media on cultural change according to the concept of social structure?

• It slows down cultural change by limiting communication.

• It has no effect on cultural norms or language.

• It speeds up cultural change by increasing exposure to different ideas and cultures.

• It prevents people from different groups from interacting.

Open Ended

Provide an example of when social structure prevented or sped up cultural change. If you need ideas, use google.

Fill in the Blank

The process of borrowing aspects of another culture is called ___.

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Multiple Choice

The major difference between invention and discovery is:

• invention only refers to nonmaterial culture, whereas a discovery can only be theoretical, like laws of physics.

• discovery involves finding something that already exists, but invention involves the creation of something new

• invention is typically used to refer to international objects, whereas discovery refers to that which is local to one’s culture

• invention is based on technology, whereas discovery is usually based on culture

  invention is based on technology, whereas discovery is usually based on culture

Open Ended

Do you agree or disagree with the quote “The rate of change is not going to slow down anytime soon. If anything, competition in most industries will probably speed up even more in the next few decades.” Why or Why not?

Open Ended

How has teenage culture changed since your adult people were teenagers? Do you think it's faster or slower? What factors do you think impacted the speed with which culture has changed?