Sociology Unit 2 Quiz

Behaviors, beliefs, and characteristics of a particular social, ethnic, or age group

• government

• economy

• culture

What a group holds to be important

• laws

• values

• folkways

Language is not considered a component of culture.

• True

• False

Groups that go directly against the main culture are known as _____________________.

• subcultures

• counter cultures

• cultural variations

Judging a culture based off the values and principles of your own culture is known as:

• ethnocentrism

• xenophobia

• racism

the spread of a cultural trait from its original location

• cultural relativism

• xenophobia

• cultural diffusion

informal rules that groups adopt to regulate group members behavior

• social norms

• subculture

• mores

Which of the following is NOT a type of social norm?

• laws

• folkways

• customs

• mores

Small groups of people whose affiliations are based on shared beliefs, preferences and practices.

• Subcultures
• Countercultures
• Counterpublics
• Submeanings

a widely held but fixed and oversimplified image or idea of a particular type of person or thing.

• stereotype

• prejudice

• implicit bias

• narrative