Exam 3: Culture

Which theorists believe that we actively produce and interpret culture,creatively fashioning it and attaching meaning to it according to our own needs?

Countercultures oppose ____ and seek to replace them.

Postmodernism has many parents,teachers,politicians,religious leaders,and some university professors worried about the future.

A subculture is:

According to symbolic interactionists,people do not accept culture ____.

Consumerism is the tendency to define ourselves in terms of the ____?

The act of a police officer issuing a ticket for speeding is an example of a:

The implementation of Werkglocken is an example of what process?

According to William Graham Sumner,less important rules of behavior are known as ____.

Japanese teenagers' use of English slang is likely to ____ because of the pressures of globalization.

According to Brym and Lie,cultural fragmentation has been increasing since the Renaissance,the Protestant Reformation,the Scientific Revolution,the French and American Revolutions.A trend that exacerbated cultural fragmentation is:

When human beings pool their resources to meet collective and individual goals,we are using which tool in "the human cultural survival kit?"

High culture is culture consumed mainly by artists and musicians.

Human survival was based on the capacity to create general ideas or ways of thinking that are not linked to specific or particular instances.These ideas are called:

What are rites of passage?

If people go to the mall to buy things when they are feeling depressed,and the purchases make them feel good about themselves or their situation,they are engaging in:

Sociologists call all the ideas,practices,and material objects that people create to deal with real-life problems:

Which process destroys political,economic,and cultural isolation?

The tendency in postmodern society to define ourselves in terms of the goods and services we purchase is known as:

Humans have been able to adapt to their environment because they can create culture.