Sociology culture

In what ways is the Amish way of life different from most Americans?

• Lifestyle based on religious practices and beliefs

• Dress very plainly and simply

• Reject features of modern life like technology and global travel.

• Wear colourful hairstyles.

What cultural terms refers to the groups that share a specific identification, apart from a society’s majority, even as the members exist within a larger society?

• Counter Culture

• High Culture

• Popular Culture

• Subculture

Select an appropriate synonym for assimilation

• defiant

• deviant

• acclimating

• accelerating

Cultural patterns that are a separate part of a segment of society's population is known as a/an:

• Suburb

• Subgroup/subculture

• Counterculture

• Counterintelligence

A speed limit sign is an example of a/an:

• Formal Norm

• Informal Norm

• Formal Sanction

• Informal Sanction

German Nazi regime believed that they were a superior race and considered Jews as an inferior race. This reflects a/ an _____________.

• Ethnocentrism

• Cultural Relativism

• Cultural More

• Subculture

What is a subculture?

• A culture that is different from other cultures and less good.

• An underwater culture.

• A smaller group with distinctive norms and values that is different to the mainstream majority group.

• A little group of people with norms and values which are similar to the mainstream group.

Studies have shown that in some tribal cultures, it is normal to have multiple wives. While it is not considered legal or common practice in many parts of the world, researches believe that an individual’s norms and actions should be understood by others in terms of that individual’s own cultural context. This concept is referred to as:

• Cultural boundaries

• Cultural interpretation

• Cultural relativism

• Cultural sensitivity

The theoretical perspective that focuses on how people within a society interact, or influence on another’s behavior through the use of mutually understood symbols.

• culture

• diversity

• conflict perspective

• symbolic interactionism

Which of these are examples of sanctions in modern industrial society? ( select all correct)

• Food vouchers

• Fine

• Prison sentence

• Discharge