Chapter 3 Quiz Sociology

An Amish community would be considered a______________. 1) Dominant culture 2) Subculture 3) Main stream culture 4) Counter culture

Which of the following is an example of a cultural universal? Question 2 options: 1) Putting your cell phone on silent during a Broadway production 2) Holding hands with your best friend 3) Incest taboos 4) Marrying the partner whom your parents have chosen for you

Which of the following is an example of a counterculture? Question 3 options: 1) The yuppie craze of the 1980's 2) The Kardashian obsession of the 2010's 3) The hippie movement of the 1960's 4) The disco invasion of the 1970's

In the early 2000's, The L Word and Queer as Folk debuted on Showtime. Both shows depicted the lives of members of the LGBT (lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender) community, thus giving viewers a glimpse into a ______. Question 4 options: 1) More 2) Formal Sanction 3) Subculture 4) Social relativism

A cultural universal is: Question 5 options: 1) An object or a belonging of a group. 2) A pattern or trait common to all societies. 3) The ideas, attitudes and beliefs of a particular society. 4) A written document outlining appropriate behavior.

Which one of these individuals is ethnocentric? Question 6 options: 1) Jack just moved to Mississippi f from California. He thinks the locals are cool with the way they live in the swamp and all. 2) Mary has been to other countries to visit and found that there are many places better than the United States. She feels England was the best of all the places she visited! They drive on the other side of the road and uses the metric system which is very confusing to her. 3) Camilla is from France but moved to the United States four years ago because of a job. She feels the people here are a bit unsophisticated and uncultured compared to people in Europe. She would never consider raising children here in fear of them becoming socially deficient like these "Yankees". 4) José just moved to Missouri from Argentina. He has been struggling to fit in at school and in his neighborhood. He wishes he can be back be Argentina.

______ culture, in contrast, consists of the ideas, attitudes, and beliefs of a society Question 7 options: 1) material culture 2) nonmaterial culture 3) pop culture 4) counter culture

The term language can be defined as: Question 8 options: 1) Gestures, signs, objects, signals, and words that help people understand the world. 2) A symbolic system through which people communicate and through which culture is transmitted. 3) The exchange of gestures and signals for the purpose of reaching a consensus. 4) Communication grounded in ideals, norms, and values.

The disoriented feeling which occurs in the context of being in a new culture is ________. Question 9 options: 1) Cultural relativism 2) Glass ceiling 3) Ethnocentrism 4) Culture shock

Elise travels across Thailand with her friends and, to her surprise, finds the country quite unlike the United States. "I hate the food," she tells her family at home. "I hate the language, I hate the weird customs and awful music. America is clearly the best place to be." This is an example of _______. Question 10 options: 1) Paradigms 2) Xenophobia 3) Moral relativism 4) Ethnocentrism