Sociology Unit 2 Review

Consists of the physical or tangible creations that members of a society make, use and share

• Material Culture

• Cultural Universals

• Nonmaterial Culture

• Values

Accounts for virtually all of our behavioral patterns

• technology

• medical advancements

• culture

• values

Consists of the abstract or intangible human creations of society that influence people's behavior

• tools

• material culture

• nonmaterial culture

• a calendar

A toolkit of symbols, stories, rituals, and world views which people may use in varying configurations to solve different kinds of problems

• norms

• culture

• values

• legal action

The Confederate flag to many African Americans is associated with racism is an example of what?

• symbol

• governmental tool

• norm

• language

The standards by which people define right and wrong, good and bad, and ugly and undesirable or desirable are what?

• values

• norms

• folkways

• sanctions

According to the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis

• language is a given

• language precedes thoughts

• people can conceptualize the world in many ways of which language is not the most important

• all the above

Rewards for appropriate behavior or penalties for inappropriate behaviors

• sancitons

• folkways

• mores

• laws

Your textbook accidentally falls off your desk. Another student picks it up and hands it to you. You FORGET to say "thank you!" In our culture, you have violated what?

• folkway

• more

• law

• belief

The term that defines why all parts of the culture do not change at the same time or pace

• cultural lag

• cultural universal

• counterculture

• subculture