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24 Cards in this Set
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The characteristics of language, beliefs, values, norms, and material objects refer to
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culture
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How a society would evaluate one person staring at another person in public is an example of
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nonmaterial culture.
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In everyday life as one lives in their own culture, their understanding of that culture is
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3) on the same level as expecting a fish to ever notice they would be in water.
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The concept of ______ refers to the lens through which we perceive and evaluate what is going on around us
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culture
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A tendency to use our own group's ways of doing things as a yardstick for judging others refers to
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ethnocentrism
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Although the particulars of culture differ from one group of people to another
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3) culture itself is universal.
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Trying to understand a culture on its own terms refers to the idea of
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4) cultural relativism.
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Gestures are
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2) useful shorthand ways of giving messages without using words.
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In language each word is
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1) actually a symbol.
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The single most important factor in allowing culture to exist is
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language
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The sentencing of someone to a prison for a crime they have committed is best seen as an example of a
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negative sanction
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The expectations or rules of behavior of a society are referred to as
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norms
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Norms that are not strictly enforced are called
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folkways
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A man who walks down the street naked from his waist up is violating a ________ whereas if a man walks down the street with nothing from his waist down is violating a ________
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3) folkway; more
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American society
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3) contains tens of thousands of subcultures.
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The subculture that most people would find to be the most disturbing in America is that of
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survivalists
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The best example of a subculture that would not be seen as a counterculture
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1) motorcycle enthusiasts
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A subculture whose values or activities are opposed to the mainstream culture are
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contracultures
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The American glorification of academic progress, hard work, and the display of material goods are indicative of the notion
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4) ideal culture.
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To understand the value of success in American society, sociologists would maintain that most Americans
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2) follow the norms and values that are found in the notion of "real culture."
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Incest
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3) is defined differently from group to group.
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The discipline holding a view on culture and behavior opposite that of sociobiology
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1) is sociology.
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The sociological significance of technology is best summarized by viewing it as
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1) setting the framework for the group's nonmaterial culture.
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The spread of cultural characteristics from one group to the other refers to
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2) cultural diffusion.
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