1. Unit 2 Review: Culture

2. Which of the following components of culture includes shared rules of conduct that tell people how to act in specific situations?
Symbols
Technology
Values
Norms 1 D

3. 2 Which of the following is the best definition of culture?
Physical objects that people create and use
All of the shared products of human groups
Abstract human creations
A group of interrelated people who share beliefs and values 2 B

4. Which of the following terms describes the spread of cultural traits that occurs when one society borrows a trait from another?
Cultural lag
Internalization
Culture complex
Diffusion 3 D

5. Which of the following terms refers to social norms that describe socially acceptable behavior but do not have great moral significance attached to them?
Folkways
Sanctions
Mores
Values 4 A

6. Which of the following is the simplest level of culture, including things like individual tools, acts, or beliefs?
Culture complex
Culture pattern
Culture trait
Culture objects 5 C

7. 6 Which of the following is an example of a positive, formal sanction?
A good grade
A look of disapproval
A detention
A thumbs up 6 A

8. Which of the following terms describes the process through which a norm becomes part of one’s personality?
Cultural lag
Diffusion
Ethnocentrism
Internalization 7 D

9. 8 Which of the following is an example of a culture trait? Wedding
French cuisine
Desk
Soccer game 8 C

10. Who was the sociologist who studied cultures and identified 65 different cultural universals?
Edward T. Hall
Horace Miner
George Murdock
Robin M. Williams 9 C

11. Which of the following is not a factor that encourages social change?
Diffusion
Social movements
Vested interests
Wars/conquest 10 C

12. True or False? Looking at the person you are speaking to is an example of more. 11
False

13. True or False? To be considered a culture, there must be a written language. 12
False

14. True or False? Getting a speeding ticket is an example of a negative formal sanction. 13
True

15. True or False? All countercultures are subcultures. 14
True

16. True or False? The words “culture” and “society” can be used interchangeably. 15
False

17. This is the theory that states that the structure of a language determines the speakers’ perception of reality. 16
Linguistic-relativity hypothesis

18. What term is used to describe the rewards and punishments that enforce conformity to norms?17
Sanctions

19. Give one example of material culture and one example of nonmaterial culture.18
Material culture refers to physical objects created by humans; nonmaterial culture is abstract things like values, beliefs, norms, etc.

20. 19 Identify one of Robin M. Williams fourteen American values.
Personal achievement and success; activity and work; moral orientation; humanitarianism; efficiency and practicality; progress; material comfort; equality; freedom; external conformity; science and rationality; nationalism and patriotism; democracy; individualism

21. What term was used by Edward T
What term was used by Edward T. Hall to describe the study of the spatial requirements of humans and its effect on behavior and social interaction? 20
Proxemics