Sociology- Chapter 2

The spreading of cultural traits from one society to another __________________.

• Cultural Variation

• Cultural Diffusion

• Ethnocentrism

• Cultural Leveling

The term that refers to abstract human creations, such as ideas, language, rules, political systems, and so on.

• Material Culture

• Mores

• Laws

• Nonmaterial Culture

A group with its own unique values, norms, and behaviors that exists within a larger culture.

• Subculture

• Folkways

• Counterculture

• Society

The situation in which some aspects of culture change less rapidly than others is called_______________________.

• Cultural Leveling

• Norms

• Cultural Lag

• Ethnocentrism

Written rules of conduct enacted and enforced by the government are called _________?

• Folkways

• Laws

• Mores

• Values

The term material culture refers to________________.

• Physical objects created by humans

• Abstract human ideas

• Norms

• Values

Extreme self-centeredness

• Narcissism

• Ethnocentrism

• Values

• Personality Disorder

The term folkways refers to________________.

• Norms that do not have moral significance attached to them

• A group with its own unique values

• Norms that have great moral significance attached to them

• Written rules of conduct

_________ are shared beliefs about what is good or bad, right or wrong, desirable or undesirable.

• Norms

• Values

• Subculture

• Narcissism

_______________ is the evaluation of other cultures according to preconceptions originating in the standards and customs of one's own culture.

• Narcissism

• Cultural Relativism

• Cultural Diffusion

• Ethnocentrism