Exam 3: Culture

How does culture give meaning to concrete experience?

Countercultures favour dominant values.

Which of the following refers to the era during which the overwhelming majority of people of Western culture believed in the inevitability of progress, respected authority, and formed a consensus around core values?

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

Explain what is controversial about multiculturalism.

How are laws different from mores?

To which of the following areas of culture do computers and mobile telephones belong?

Discuss Max Weber's interpretation of rationalization as an "iron cage." Do you agree or disagree? Explain your position.

Which of the following is a criticism of multiculturalism discussed in the textbook?

What connects cultural capital to privilege? A group of anarchists produces a publication entitled The Glib and Stale, which looks very much like The Globe and Mail newspaper.What are they engaged in?

If a group of teenagers has distinctive dress, beliefs, ideas, and language that separate them from others in a society, which of the following do they belong to?

Hoarding is a form of compulsive disorder common in all societies throughout history.

Matthew overhears an argument where one person claims that social behaviour is determined by the same biological patterns as those that determine people's eye colour.What is this position known as?

Which of the following sociological concepts do the films Borat and The Dictator demonstrate?

What type of cultures are said to be subversive because they oppose dominant values and seek to replace them?

Explain how globalization affects you.Use the concepts of culture, cultural diversification, and globalization in your answer.

What was the common consequence of the Renaissance, the Protestant Reformation, the Scientific Revolution, and the eighteenth-century political revolutions?

Explain the significance of beliefs for culture.Give an example of a belief shared in Canadian culture today.

According to the textbook, which of the following categories does rap music fit into?

What argument do evolutionary psychologists provide for gender differences in promiscuity? Outline an alternate, sociological explanation of these differences.