Exam 2: Culture

The Ten Commandments, the U.S. Constitution, and the penal code of a major city are all examples of folkways.

Why is culture often taken for granted and considered as being "natural" for members of the society in which it is practiced?

When a group has a distinctive way of looking at life, but at the same time its values and norms reflect the dominant culture of its society, the group would be considered a(n) ________.

What is a culture war?

Good nutrition, medical care, comfortable housing, and a nice car are included in a classification of values in American society that sociologist Robin Williams would call ________.

What is the difference between material and nonmaterial culture?

All of the following statements are examples of countercultures, EXCEPT for which one?

What is a "moral holiday"?

Of the five interrelated core values emerging in American society, the one that is reflected in the "human potential" movement that focuses on "self help, relating, and personal development" is ________.

What are the five interrelated core values now emerging in the United States?

Anthropologists Edward Sapir and Benjamin Whorf concluded that ________.

Cultural lag refers to a situation in which elements of nonmaterial culture (such as norms and values) change, but elements of material culture (such as technology) do not.

When Harry returned from a business meeting in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, his wife asked him what he thought of the Vietnamese people. Harry replied, "They're primitive people who eat animals from the streets, drive wildly around town on motor scooters, and talk very fast." Harry's reply best qualifies as an example of ________.

Sociologists have identified an emerging set of five interrelated values in American society. What are these emerging values?

By definition, subcultures are a threat to the mainstream culture.

Why did Robert Edgerton advance the notion that cultures should be evaluated on their "quality of life" and not their own merit? How does this reject the concept of cultural relativism?

The spread of cultural characteristics from one group to another refers to ________.

The main difference between traditional technology and what is classified as new technology is ________.

The author added three values to the original list of ten core values that Robin Williams identified as the most common in American society. Which of the following is NOT one of the three values added?

The author's experience in Morocco, which included the absence of women from public positions, intense stares directed at him, pushing and shoving at the train station, and total disregard for sanitation by food vendors, left the author with a profound sense of ________.