front 1 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 _______. | back 1 Ethnocentrism |
front 2 Which of the following is an example of an informal sanction? | back 2 The football team throwing a slushy in Finn's face because he tried to join the Glee club. |
front 3 A cultural universal is: | back 3 A pattern or trait common to all societies. |
front 4 The term language can be defined as: | back 4 a symbolic system through which people communicate and through which culture is transmitted. |
front 5 Which of the following is an example of cultural relativism? | back 5 Helena putting aside her vegetarianism to eat meals with the local tribe she is studying. |
front 6 In 1999, Sean Fanning, John Fanning, and Sean Parker invented Napster, a global, free-of-charge, peer-to-peer music sharing program. Prior to Napster, no such program existed. The three men created _____. | back 6 An innovation |
front 7 Angelica visits Thailand with her family. When she wears short-shorts and tank tops while visiting a series of temples during her first week, she is met with hostility from the locals. She feels she no longer knows how to behave or interact with those outside her family. Angelica is experiencing _____. | back 7 Culture shock |
front 8 MTV's widely-watched TV series The Jersey Shore is an example of _____, while the obscure works of playwright Sam Shepard are an example of ______. | back 8 Popular culture; high culture |
front 9 Many Americans pay for haircuts, trips to the dentist, or transportation on the metro and bus systems. These actions support the notion of capitalism, an example of _____. | back 9 Non-material culture |
front 10 Which of the following is an example of a counterculture? | back 10 The hippie movement of the 1960's |
front 11 The term institutionalization can be defined as: | back 11 The act of implanting a convention or norm into society. |
front 12 Functionalist Émile Durkheim viewed society as: | back 12 An organism in which each portion plays a vital role in keeping the organism stable and healthy |
front 13 Charles Cooley's concept of the looking-glass self hypothesizes that: | back 13 People base their images on how they think other people see them. |
front 14 Which of the following is NOT an example of self-fulfilling prophecy? | back 14 Kevin sprained his ankle a month before a marathon. Though his trainer advises him not to participate, Kevin runs the marathon and places third. |
front 15 _____ describes how any action that is repeated frequently becomes cast into a pattern | back 15 Habitualization |
front 16 Karl Marx's Communist Manifesto is based on the ____ perspective. | back 16 Conflict Theory |
front 17 Durkheim defined ______ as the communal beliefs, morals, and attitudes of a society. | back 17 Collective conscience |
front 18 The concept anomie can be defined as: | back 18 A situation in which society no longer has the support of a firm collective consciousness. |
front 19 Which of the following is an example of role strain? | back 19 Becca returns to work after giving birth to her daughter, finding it difficult to act as mother, wife, and executive. |
front 20 Which of the following is NOT one of Marx's four types of alienation? | back 20 Alienation from one's religion |
front 21 Xenocentrism is: | back 21 The opposite of ethnocentrism |
front 22 What is one difference between a more and a folkway? | back 22 Mores may carry serious consequences if violated; folkways do not. |
front 23 What group defines themselves through a rejection of the mainstream: | back 23 Hipsters |
front 24 The term values can be defined as: | back 24 A culture's standard for discerning what's good and just in society. |
front 25 Which of the following is NOT an example of a formal norm within the United States? | back 25 Making eye contact while speaking |
front 26 Kurt and Mitch visit an Amish village on a class trip. "Let's see if we can round up some old radios and appliances and drop them off for them later this week. I think they'll appreciate it. They just don't understand what they're missing." Mitch rolls his eyes. Kurt's perspective is an example of _______. | back 26 Cultural imperialism |
front 27 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 ______. | back 27 Subculture |
front 28 Janet is visiting her childhood friend in the Hamptons. Janet wears ripped jeans and Chuck Taylors to an infamous "White" party. The majority of party-goers refuse to socialize with her. Janet is experiencing a form of ____. | back 28 Social control |
front 29 Karl Marx asserted that the means of societal change existed in the tension between: | back 29 The working class proletariat taking the means of production from the wealthy bourgeois. |
front 30 As industrialization began to boom, Durkheim believed people were more susceptible to anomie because: | back 30 Collective norms are weakened.All of the aboveSpecialization of labor lead to alienation.Society no longer has the support of the collective consciousness. |
front 31 Alienation is defined by the text as: | back 31 The condition in which the individual is isolated and divorced from his or her society, work, or sense of self. |
front 32 Please place the following societies in chronological order: | back 32 Hunter-gatherer; Pastoral; Horticultural; Agricultural |
front 33 Which of the following is NOT an example of organic solidarity? | back 33 A freelance artist creating a sculpture of Barack Obama |
front 34 A judge and her gavel. A cop and his gun. A lawyer and her power suit. A ____ would be most concerned with the parts these objects play in impression management. | back 34 Symbolic interactionist |
front 35 Ivanka Trump is the daughter of business mogul Donald Trump. Her role as heiress to the Trump fortune is an example of ______. | back 35 Ascribed status |