Exam 2: Culture

Countercultures do not fundamentally oppose dominant values.

Which of the following is an example of a violation of a folkway?

Relatively inexpensive international travel and communication contributed to which of the following cultural processes in the late twentieth century?

Cooperation is the tool in the human survival kit that is based on the sharing of resources.

Throughout Canadian history, Canada's culture has become increasingly more heterogeneous.

Consumerism is the term that identifies the process of buying items to define our membership in a certain subculture.

What is one of the most important roots of globalization?

Human survival is based on the capacity to create general ideas or ways of thinking that are not linked to specific or particular instances. What are these ideas called?

The rights revolution has profoundly affected culture by legitimizing the grievances of formerly marginalized groups and by renewing pride in subcultural heritages. Which of the following has been a result of the rights revolution?

Incest is an example of which of the following?

What is the term for rules of behaviour that people in a culture find relatively unimportant?

Early hip-hop music expressed contempt for white society. According to the text, what did the attraction of white middle-class youth to the music style reduce hip-hop to?

There are generational differences in how certain behaviours are experienced. Identify a folkway (a social preference) that is acceptable to your peers but that is frowned upon by older generations, and describe the difference in attitude.

According to Weber, which of the following best defines rationalization?

Conflict theorists were particularly important in explaining that people actively produce and interpret culture.

Which of the following best illustrates the human capacity for abstraction?

The use of a flag to represent the common belonging of many people to one nation is an example of a symbol.

Max Weber claimed that rationality has crept into all spheres of social life except for religious beliefs.

Harris's analysis of cow worship in India illustrated the benefits of functionalist theory in explaining apparently mysterious social practices, and revealed lessons about ethnocentrism.

Explain ethnocentrism with reference to the invisibility of culture.