Sociology Ch. 2

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the organization of written or spoken symbols into a standardized system

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language

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shared belief about what is good or bad, right or wrong, desirable or undesirable

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values

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a group that shares values, norms, and behaviors that are not shared by the rest of society, yet they peacefully co-exist in society. Such as the Amish

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subculture

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all the shared products of human groups, including both physical objects and the beliefs, values, and behaviors shared by a group

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culture

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a group of interdependent people who have organized in such a way as to share a common culture and feeling of unity

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society

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the shared rules of conduct that tell people how to act in specific situations

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norms

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norms that describe socially acceptable behavior but do not have great moral significance attached to them, such as covering your mouth when you yawn.

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folkways

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norms that have great moral significance attached to them, such as murder and stealing

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mores

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certain features that are developed by all societies to ensure fulfillment of needs, such as funerals, and marriages

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cultural universals

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the belief that cultures should be judged by their own standards rather than by applying the standards of another culture

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cultural relativism

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the belief that cultures should be judged by their own standards rather than by applying the standards of another culture

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cultural relativism

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the tendency to view one's own culture as superior is called

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ethnocentrism

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the anthropologist that conducted a new-classic study of cultural variation in the 1930s was

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Napoleon Chagnon

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Sociologists distinguished between these two types of norms:

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folkways and mores

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All of the following are examples of a counterculture except:

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the military

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what sociology sometimes refer to as the combination of objects and rules

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technology

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A study of which two groups provided examples of how different value systems produce different culture?

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the arapesh and the mundugumor

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All of the following are examples of a subculture except:
A) Miami's Little Havana
B) the Navajo of the Southwest
C) San Francisco's Chinatown
D) the Mafia

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D) the Mafia

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Folkways include all of the following except:
A) shaking hands
B) Murder
C) Getting to class on time
D) not putting food in your mouth with a knife

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B) murder

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T/F The physical objects that people create and use form a group's nonmaterial culture.

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False

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T/F Society consists of people, and culture consists of the material and non material products that people create.

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True

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T/F Most subcultures do not reject all of the values and practices of the larger society.

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True

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T/F Folkways are norms that describe socially acceptable behavior but do not have great moral significance attached to them.

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True

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T/F
Mores are norms that do not have great moral significance attached to them.

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False

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T/F Values are the organization of written or spoken symbols into a standardized system.

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False

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T/F Margaret Mead, in the 1940s compiled a list of more than 65 cultural universals after examining hundreds of different cultures

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false

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T/F Basic components of a culture vary from society to society

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false

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T/F Culture consists of all the shared products of human groups.

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True

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T/F Criminologist Edwin Sutherland developed the idea of subcultures in the 1920s.

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true

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T/F Ethnocentrism is the tendency to view one's own culture and group as superior.

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true

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T/F the arapesh and the mundugumor were two societies in New Guinea that Margaret Mead conducted a study of culture variation on in the 1930s.

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true

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T/F All groups create norms to enforce their cultural values.

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true