Society and Culture

Culture is a set of values, norms, and behaviors shared by a social group.

• true
• false

Culture is learned, not instinctual or inherited.

• true
• false

Culture can vary across societies, because values and norms can change.

• true

• false

Ethnocentrism means viewing one's own culture as superior.

• true

• false

The social unit primarily responsible for teaching the customs and traditions of a culture is

• the government

• the army

• the family

• the schools

The pattern of organized relationships among groups of people within a society.

• standard of living

• society

• culture

• social structure

Each part of society works together for the benefit of the whole much like a living organism. This refers to 

• Conflict theory
• Symbolic interactionism
• Functionalism
• None of the above

Two major historical events that contributed to the emergence of Sociology:

• Industrial revolution and Mass agriculture
• Cultural revolution and Age of Enlightenment
• Age of Enlightenment and Industrial Revolution
• All of the above

Sociological imagination enables us to

• challenge stereotypes
• see how wider social forces connect with our personal biographies
• challenges our basic impulses to see aspects of life as inevitable or natural
• All of the above

Two "classes" according to Marx?

• upper and lower
• proletariat and bourgeoisie
• poor and rich
• nobles and clergy