Chapter 2 Intro-Sociology

The language, beliefs, values, norms, behaviors, and objects passed from one generation to the next make up a group’s __________.

• identity

• ethnocentrism

• culture

• material culture

__________ would be part of material culture.

• Hairstyles

• Language

• Beliefs

• Values

Nonmaterial culture refers to a group’s __________.

• art

• weapons

• ways of thinking and doing

• eating utensils

Who is ethnocentric?

• everyone

• westerners over 50, but not under 50

• just those easterners who live in the Carolinas

• older people only

To try to understand a culture on its own terms is called __________.

• ethnocentrism

• cultural relativism

• folklore

• cultural education

Which of the following statements about cultural relativism is true?

• It has not been criticized by social scientists.

• Cultural relativism has come under attack because it can lead to acceptance of practices like genital cutting and wife beating.

• Sociologists accept all cultures, without judgment.

• Cultural relativism encourages cultural smugness.

Another term for nonmaterial culture that sociologists use is __________.

• symbolic culture

• material culture

• gestural culture

• culture shock

The main way people communicate is through __________.

• gestures

• intermarriage

• language

• artwork

The Sapir-Whorf hypothesis states that __________.

• languages are universal

• some languages, such as English, are superior to others

• perception and language are unrelated

• language has ways of looking at the world embedded within it

People’s __________ have to do with what they think is appropriate in life.

• values

• mores

• taboos

• folkways