Civica 3A Exam Feb-March

Mark goes to live in Africa for 10 years and becomes a part of an indegenous tribe and really loves their culture. After 10 years he returns home to England. However, he does not like the food and the social customs in ENgland anymore. He feels like the people in England do everything wrong and that their customs are bad compared to the tribe in Africa. This is an example of what?

• ethnocentrism

• relativism

• xenocentrism

• universalism

If a person you know says that he thinks people from other cultures have very poor customs and don't know how to live the right way, then this person is being:

• ethnocentric

• xenocentric

• relativistic

• universalistic

July is an anthropologist that wants to learn about a new culture. She goes to visit an indigenous tribe in the Amazon. There she tries to eat their foods, speak their language, and practice all their customs as if it were completely normal for her. This is an example of:

• practicing cultural ethnocentrism

• practicing cultural universalism

• practicing cultural xenocentrism

• practicing cultural relativism

Music, burying the dead, and family social units are examples of:

• cultural relativity

• cultural universals

• cultural ideas

• cultural beliefs

The consumer cultural worldview has some negative consequences and some positive consequences. One of the negative consequences is:

• destruction of the environment

• decreasing economic sectors

• a loss of education

• the increase in technological production

A person has the worldview that government is the highest authority and secularism is the best way for the country to be. Their worldview is:

• modern

• ancient

• consumer

• Christian

Which worldview suggests that there really is no truth and that everything is essentially relative?

• modernism

• postmodernism

• consumer

• materialistic

The tendency to consider the accumulation of material products as important and to view our reality as primarily physical instead of spiritual is which worldview?

• postmodern

• technological

• materialist

• consumer

Which one of the following is a negative consequence of the scientific worldview?

• obersavational analysis became very important

• A decrease in the church's power and authority

• advances in technology

• No focus on ethics and values

The idea that everything is inter-connected, nature is sacred and we must find balance is part of what worldview?

• indigenous

• technological

• cosnumer

• modern