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Culture, subculture and counterculture

Total questions: 22

Worksheet time: 13mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Do you wear Nike or Topper? Do you go to an art galery or a concert? These distinctions and many more are just one way of distinguishing culture in terms of (a)  

2.

Class affects cullture and vice versa. True or False

a)

True

b)

False

3.

High culture doesn't mean (a)   culture

4.

Low culture is also known as (a)  

5.

Low culture includes the cultural behaviours and ideas that are__________ with most people in a society

a)

accepted

b)

popular

c)

common

d)

normal

6.

High culture refers to cultural patterns that distinguish a society's __________

a)

popularity

b)

normal standards

c)

common behaviour

d)

elite

7.

Mainstream culture includes the cultural patterns that are broadly in line with a society's cultural ___________

a)

ideals and values

b)

ideas

c)

values

d)

behaviours

8.

Subcultures are cultural patterns that ___________ a segment of a society's population

a)

separate

b)

divide

c)

set apart

d)

comply

9.

People with most power and social influence determine the ______________

a)

representation

b)

value

c)

ideals

d)

norm

10.

People with less power within a society, are called _________, like hipsters

a)

culture

b)

subgroups

c)

mainstream culture

d)

low class

11.

Each subculture is _________ and they don't necessarily blend __________ with the mainstream culture.

a)

unique - together

b)

simple - together

c)

unique - separate

d)

simple - separate

12.

Ethnocentrism is the practice of (a)   one culture by the standards of another

13.

Multiculturalism is a perspective that rather than seeing society as a homogeneous culture regognizes cultural ___________ while advocating for equal standing for all cultural traditions.

a)

diversity

b)

difference

c)

unification

d)

diverse

14.

From a structural functionalist perspective, cultures form to provide ____________ and ___________

a)

unity and education

b)

contact and education

c)

order and cohesiveness

15.

When subgroups are in opposition to the main stream we call them (a)  

16.

Cultures keep on changing all the time, even without subcultures or counter-cultures. True or false?

a)

true

b)

false

17.

Sometimes people (a)   new things, which change culture. For example, cellphones

18.

Inventions don't have just to be material. ___________, like about money or voting systems, can also be invented and change culture.

a)

contents

b)

services

c)

products

d)

ideas

19.

There are three ways of changing culture: inventing, discovering and ________

a)

cultural diffusion

b)

cultural background

c)

cultural acceptance

d)

cultural mainstream

20.

Cultural diffusion is how cultural traits (a)   from one culture to another

21.

Are the structural functionalists right? Does having a share culture provide points of _________ that encourage cooperation and helps society function?

a)

difference

b)

similarity

c)

cohesiveness

d)

uniqueness

22.

Does conflict theory have it right? Does culture _________ us and benefits some members of society more than others?

a)

divide

b)

unite

c)

difference

d)

unifies