Worksheetssoc2expt2
Total questions: 10
Worksheet time: 5mins
Material culture consists of
laws, customs, and ideas.
ideas about what is right and wrong.
ideas and beliefs of a group of people.
objects created in a given culture.
The specific cultural expectations for how to behave in a given situation are called
directives.
belief-based actualizations.
culture-constructs.
norms.
Folkways are
strict norms that control moral and ethical behavior.
norms that provide strict codes of behavior.
often upheld through laws that bring serious repercussions.
the ordinary customs of different group cultures.
As a means of social control, to enforce norms, sanctions
are always negative.
are not very effective.
are always positive.
may be mild or severe.
Members of a counterculture
conform to most of the standards of the dominant culture.
share many elements of the dominant culture and exist within it.
seek to redefine the dominant culture.
reject the dominant cultural values of a society.
The abstract standards that define the ideal principles of a society are called
beliefs.
myths.
mores.
values.
The habit of seeing things only from the point of view of one’s own group is called
multiculturalism.
cultural relativism.
xenocentrism.
ethnocentrism.
Sociologists refer to the concentration of cultural power as cultural
borrowing.
pervasiveness.
relativism.
hegemony.
Which theorists are most likely to emphasize that cultural norms and beliefs integrate people into groups and create social bonds?
conflict theorists
symbolic interactionist theorists
new cultural studies theorists
functionalist theorists
Which of the following is not part of the definition of culture?
beliefs.
behavior.
language.
globalization.
