Sociology Chapter 2 Test

What is the organization of written or spoken symbols into a standardized system called?

• cultural relativism

• symbolic interaction

• norms

• language

What are prohibitions against killing people and stealing other people’s property examples of?

• mores

• culture complexes

• artifacts

• folkways

What are shared beliefs about what is good or bad, right or wrong, desirable or undesirable called?

• folkways

• norms

• mores

• values

The use of which of the following is the very basis of human culture?

• symbols

• technology

• language

• values

What is the belief called when cultures should be judged by their own standards?

• cultural lag

• cultural diffusion

• cultural relativism

• cultural leveling

Norms that describe socially acceptable behavior but do not have great moral significance attached to them are called ________.

• laws

• folkways

• mores

• values

What is a written rule of conduct enacted and enforced by the government called?

• more

• law

• value

• culture

Who was the anthropologist who studied the Yanomamo?

• George Murdock

• Margaret Mead

• Napoleon Chagnon

• Sam Adams

What are features common to all societies called?

• mores

• folkways

• laws

• cultural universals

What are groups that reject the values, norms, and practices of the larger society called?

• outsiders

• countercultures

• culture universals

• material culture