Exam 3: Culture and Society

A society is:

Does the Internet promote a global culture, absorbing local cultures into a single mainstream culture, or does it promote countercultures that directly threaten the larger mainstream cultures?

Explain how culture can be understood as a "tool kit" that includes a variety of "scripts." Use two examples of a situation in which you would use different "scripts" from your cultural "tool kit," and explain why these "scripts" would differ (for example, a job interview, a first date, meeting your significant other's parents, being stopped by law enforcement).

MATCHING -When someone gives a gift, it is customary in the United States to say "thank you."

Because of the recent so-called cultural turn in sociology, most sociologists now agree that:

Early humans fashioned stone tools to hunt and gather for their subsistence. Another important accomplishment is that they figured out a way to manage fire. This reinforces the idea that early humans were:

Describe three different subcultures that stand apart from the rest of society.

Which of the following illustrates how nationalism has arisen in response to globalization? a. the American government's decision to cut aid to foreign countries b. extreme Islamist movements in the Middle East c. refusal of recent immigrants to the United States to assimilate d. spread of the Internet into previously isolated countries, such as China

_________ societies relied mainly on domesticated animals, while _________ societies grew crops for their livelihood.

MATCHING -This approach focuses on factors like reproductive strategies to explain human behavior.

The Sapir-Whorf linguistic relativity hypothesis is important in how:

Unlike sociobiology, sociology does not recognize any influence of biology on human behavior.

There is some evidence indicating that as Facebook interaction increases:

The components of a cultural system that are not actual physical objects are called _________.

List three of the components of culture, as used by sociologists.

Is cultural relativism necessary in a global economy?

In which type of society do most people live and work on the land, growing crops for food and to sell?

Definitive principles or rules of behavior that people are expected to observe are called: