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WorksheetsSociology Chapter 2 - Cultural Diversity
Total questions: 24
Worksheet time: 12mins
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Class
Date
1.
Native Americans, Irish Americans, and soldiers living on a military base are all examples of a subculture.
a)
True
b)
False
2.
Margaret Mead determined that temperament is mainly the result of culture rather than biology.
a)
True
b)
False
3.
Ethnocentrism is the sharing of rules of conduct that tell us how to act in specific situations.
a)
True
b)
False
4.
Warfare is to the Yanomamo as cooperation is to the
a)
Mundugumor
b)
Nacirema
c)
the Mor-Ayz
d)
the Arapesh
5.
Which of the following groups is the best example of a counterculture?
a)
the Amish
b)
soldiers on a military base
c)
neo-Nazis
d)
Native Americans
6.
Folkways are
a)
written or spoken symbols.
b)
the physical objects of material culture.
c)
the common customs of everyday life.
d)
written rules of conduct enacted and enforced by the government.
7.
Cultural relativism is the belief that
a)
morally significant norms should be enforced by the government.
b)
temperament is the result of cultural rather than biological factors.
c)
cultures should be judged by their own standards.
d)
the values, norms, and practices of the larger society should be rejected.
8.
A cluster of interrelated culture traits is a
a)
culture complex
b)
society
c)
cultural universal
d)
culture pattern
9.
Shared beliefs about what is good or bad, right or wrong, desirable or undesirable are called
a)
folkways
b)
norms
c)
mores
d)
values
10.
Prohibitions against killing people and stealing other people's property are examples of
a)
mores
b)
culture complexes
c)
artifacts
d)
folkways
11.
The organization of written or spoken symbols into a standardized system is called
a)
cultural relativism
b)
symbolic interaction
c)
mores
d)
language
12.
A group of mutually interdependent people who have organized in such a way as to share a common culture and feeling of unity is an
a)
artifact
b)
subculture
c)
society
d)
counterculture
13.
The combination of a number of culture complexes into an interrelated whole is a
a)
subculture
b)
culture pattern
c)
culture trait
d)
cultural universal
14.
Norms that have great moral significance attached to them
a)
mores
b)
law
c)
culture traits
d)
symbol
15.
examples include clothing, buildings, and automobiles
a)
material culture
b)
non-material culture
c)
counterculture
d)
subculture
16.
Anthropologist who compiled a list of more than 60 cultural universals.
a)
George Murdock
b)
Napoleon Chagnon
c)
Margaret Mead
d)
Mr. O'Keefe
17.
All of the shared products of human groups.
a)
culture
b)
law
c)
mores
d)
symbol
18.
Anything that stands for something else and has a shared meaning attached to it
a)
symbol
b)
culture
c)
law
d)
society
19.
Examples include beliefs, ideas, and rules
a)
non-material culture
b)
material culture
c)
subculture
d)
counterculture
20.
Group that rejects the values, norms, and practices of the larger society
a)
counterculture
b)
subculture
c)
material culture
d)
non-material culture
21.
Features common to all societies.
a)
cultural universals
b)
cultural reversals
c)
countercultures
d)
subcultures
22.
Anthropologist who studied the Yanamamo.
a)
Napoleon Chagnon
b)
Margaret Mead
c)
George Murdock
d)
Dr. Dre
23.
Written rule of conduct enacted and enforced by the government.
a)
law
b)
more
c)
symbol
d)
culture
24.
What is the quote that Mr. O'Keefe believes in?
a)
A society that forgot its past is doomed to repeat it.
b)
Any society that forgets its past is doomed to repeate it
c)
A society that forgets its past is doomed to repeat it.
d)
Everyone knows that the New York Mets are America's team.
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