Culture

What concept could best explain the experience of the anthropologist Napolean Chagnon in his contact with Yąnomamö?

• Culture Shock

• Culture Difference

• Culture Exposure

• Culture Exchange

Which statement below does not explain culture?

• Culture refers to values, beliefs, behavior and material objects that together form a people's way of life.

• Culture refers to a way of thinking, the ways of acting, and the material objects that together forms a people's way of life.

• Culture consists of thoughts (e.g. expectation about personal space) and realisable things (e.g. bus stop, trains, and seating capacity).

• Culture is the belief system of a group of people which provides the sense of direction and purpose to them.

Below are the elements of culture, EXCEPT_______

• gestures, signs, objects, signals, words.

• a symbolic system which assists people to communicate and through which culture is transmitted.

• cuturally defined standards that allow us to decide what is desirable, good, and beautiful, serving as a broad guidelines for social living.

• history of a group of people which is read by the students in the classroom.

Some cultural elements change more quickly than others, which might disrupt a cultural system. It is called _______.

• Culture Shock

• Culture Lag

• Culture Integration

• Culture Understanding

Culture is a strategy for meeting human needs. This is __________ perspective.

• structural-functional

• social conflict

• symbolic interactionist

• sociobiology

A society's cultural norms benefit some people but hurt others. This is ___________ perspective.

• symbolic interactionist

• social conflict

• structural-functional

• sociobiology

This perspective explores the ways in which human biology affects how we create culture. This is _________ perspective.

• sociobiology

• symbolic interactionist

• social conflict

• structural-functional

It is concerned with the face-to-face interactions between members of the society. This is ____________ perspective.

• symbolic interactionist

• social conflict

• structural-functional

• sociobiology