Understanding Culture, Society, and Politics Pretest

True or False:
Sociology is about how different people can be, but it also tries to find out in what sense it can be said that all humans have something in common. 

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• False

True or False:
Ethnocentrism refers to the evaluation other people’s culture from one’s own vantage-point and describing them in one’s own terms.

• True
• False

True or False:
Ethnocentrism and Cultural relativism are both on the same spectrum in viewing culture.

• True
• False

True or False:
Anthropology is the comparative study of cultural and social life. Its most important method is participant observation, which consists in lengthy fieldwork in a particular social setting. 

• True
• False

True or False:
According to St. Augustine of Hippo, state was a necessary evil and that man needs state to guide him to perfection.

• True 
• False

True or False:
Stoics believe that individuals and communities can exist without any authority ruling over them

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• False

True or False:
Skeptics believe that affairs of the state were not their business and not worth their attention.

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• False

True or False
Neo Evolutionism believes that all social institutions thus appear as functional; if they are not functional, they vanish. 

• True
• False

True or False:
Internet transcends dualisms such as local/global and small scale/large scale 

• True 
• False

True or False:
Traditions are learned behaviors as well as the beliefs, attitudes, values, and ideals that are characteristic of a particular society 

• True 
• False