Unit 3 Test: Culture

The frequent repetition of an act, to the extent that it becomes characteristic of a group of people, is a

• Custom
• Popular Culture
• Habit
• Taboo

A repetitive act performed by an individual is a

• custom
• popular culture
• habit
• taboo

Jeans provide a good example of material culture that is adopted by a number of different societies. They are also an example of

• punk culture
• popular culture
• folk culture
• white-collar culture

In contrast to folk culture, popular culture is more likely to vary

• from place to place at a given time
• from time to time at a given place
• both from place to place and from time to time in equal measure
• neither from place to place nor time to time

A restriction on behavior imposed by social custom is a

• folk culture
• habit
• popular culture
• taboo

Historically, cultural diffusion patterns in the United Sates have tended to flow in which general direction?

• East to west
• West to east
• North to south
• Northwest to southeast

Compared to popular cultures, folk cultures are

• more cosmopolitan.
• more homogeneous.
• more diffuse.
• more transitory.

A new fashion trend originating in New York City that diffuses to Los Angeles, Paris, and Tokyo before reaching rural areas of New York state would be an example of which of the following kinds of diffusion?

• contagious
• hierarchical
• relocation
• stimulus

The prohibition that forbids Hindus from slaughtering or consuming beef is an example of a(n)

• Sharia law.
• religious taboo.
• ethnic conflict.
• secular belief.

The country of Papua New Guinea boasts one of the world’s highest rates of linguistic diversity, with more than 800 documented indigenous languages. This linguistic diversity has been preserved largely because of the country’s rugged geography, which includes mountains and islands that have tended to keep different speech communities isolated from one another. In the context of Papua New Guinea’s geography of language, mountains and islands represent

• intervening opportunities.
• critical distances.
• barriers to diffusion.
• cultural innovations.