Higher Education

Foundations of Sociology: Chapter 4

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Question 1:

According to the text, culture is a system involving which of the following?
a) Behaviour and beliefs
b) Knowledge and practices
c) Values and materials
d) All of the above

Question 2:

In Canada, the dominant culture is which of the following?
a) Aboriginal
b) English-speaking, and European-based
c) White and agnostic
d) French-speaking, and European-based

Question 3:

Which of the following is the term used for norms that are so deeply ingrained within society that the mere thought of them is enough to arouse disgust or revulsion?
a) Taboos
b) Mores
c) Positive sanctions
d) Negative sanctions

Question 4:

Which of the following characterizes symbols as aspects of a culture?
a) They take on no significant meaning, but retain history.
b) They take on tremendous meaning and include material objects.
c) They are mostly non-material objects, such as songs.
d) They only have meaning for those who create them.

Question 5:

Eurocentrism involves which of the following?
a) Addressing others from a broadly defined "European" culture and assuming that the audience shares that position
b) Assuming that a specific culture that is not one's own is better than one's own in some way
c) Only those in the West, and in particular white individuals
d) None of the above

Question 6:

Which of the following is the study of language as a part of culture?
a) Dialectics
b) Dialect
c) Sociological language studies
d) Sociolinguistics

Question 7:

Cultural relativism can be spoken of as existing at what two levels?
a) Understanding and cohesion
b) Cohesion and comprehension
c) Understanding and judging
d) Comprehension and cohesion

Question 8:

Which of the following are said to be different classes that exist in a language that can reinforce the beliefs within the culture that speaks that language?
a) Verb classes
b) Norm classes
c) Noun classes
d) Value classes

Question 9:

Sports, movies, and television shows are all examples of which of the following?
a) Simulacra
b) Popular culture
c) Cultural globalization
d) High culture

Question 10:

Culture is a system involving behaviour, beliefs, knowledge, practices, values, and material.
a) TRUE
b) FALSE

Question 11:

In Canada, because of multiculturalism, there is no dominant culture.
a) TRUE
b) FALSE

Question 12:

Positive sanctions are reactions designed to tell offenders they have violated a norm.
a) TRUE
b) FALSE

Question 13:

Folkways are norms governing day-to-day matters.
a) TRUE
b) FALSE

Question 14:

Taboos are cultural rules that people "must not" violate.
a) TRUE
b) FALSE

Question 15:

According to Michael Adams' research on values, Canadian and American values are becoming increasingly similar.
a) TRUE
b) FALSE

Question 16:

Ethnocentrism is the idea that one culture serves as the standard by which all cultures are to be judged.
a) TRUE
b) FALSE

Question 17:

The Canadian government outlawed the potlatch because Aboriginal people used these gatherings to plot rebellion against the Christian church.
a) TRUE
b) FALSE

Question 18:

According to Baudrillard, hyperreal simulcra are cultural images that are tangible or real.
a) TRUE
b) FALSE

Question 19:

Culture is an accepted static system of behaviour, beliefs, values and concrete materials.
a) TRUE
b) FALSE