Quiz 10| Higher Education | Oxford University Press Canada

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Question 1:

What did Miner accomplish with his ethnographic study of the Nacirema?
a) He established the negative consequences of American imperialism.
b) He made the everyday activities in which most North Americans engage seem strange.
c) He demonstrated the similarities between divergent cultures.
d) He illustrated the relativistic nature of cultural behaviour.

Question 2:

Which of the following refers to all social practices and knowledge systems that are socially transmitted from one generation to the next?
a) Society
b) Culture
c) Religion
d) Community

Question 3:

What is one of the most widely used concepts in sociology?
a) Cultural relativism
b) Cultural diversity
c) Culture
d) Socialization

Question 4:

What is the term for complex patterns of behaviour that are genetically preprogrammed and that regulate the activities of members of a species?
a) Displacement activities
b) Instincts
c) Fixed action patterns
d) Mating behaviours

Question 5:

On what do humans rely to acquire the culture that enables them to act as humans?
a) Motivational forces
b) Primitive reflexes
c) Social praxis
d) Social learning

Question 6:

From the perspective of “culture as tool kit”, what does culture provide social actors with in order to help them achieve a life goal?
a) Materials to construct their own strategies of action
b) Tools to negotiate their social relationships
c) Materials to construct their own long-term plans
d) Tools to participate in social rituals

Question 7:

Which perspective focuses on how the symbolic elements of culture are shaped by the systems within which they are created, distributed, evaluated, taught, and preserved?
a) Cultural-reification perspective
b) Production-of-culture perspective
c) Distributed-symbols perspective
d) Symbolic-diversity perspective

Question 8:

According to Robert Hollands, more must be done to help non-Native Canadians understand the importance of what aspect of Native Canadian life?
a) Moving Aboriginals to urban centres
b) Teaching Aboriginal languages in Canadian schools
c) Preserving Aboriginal culture and traditions
d) Making reparations to Aboriginals

Question 9:

With what were the content and style of pre-printed stories and poems closely tied?
a) A written tradition
b) An oral tradition
c) A hybrid tradition
d) A secular tradition

Question 10:

What was French philosopher Bergson’s belief about memory?
a) All memory is useful.
b) All memory cannot be stored.
c) All memory is genetically programmed.
d) All memory is socially constructed.

True or False Questions

Question 11:

Culture has come to be seen as a set of mechanisms that humans actively employ on a moment-by-moment basis, and a means by which their reality is actively defined
a) True
b) False

Question 12:

Culture is more like a “tool kit” from which social actors choose different pieces in order to construct different lines of social action.
a) True
b) False

Question 13:

Individuals have readiness and cultural capacities they rarely employ.
a) True
b) False

Question 14:

According to Harding’s study, many of the adolescent boys grow into young men who place loyalty to their personal achievement above their neighbourhood gang in terms of life goals
a) True
b) False

Question 15:

Traditional Chinese culture places value on formal education, hard work, and family.
a) True
b) False

Question 16:

The mainstream Canadian parenting style is usually top-down and very strict.
a) True
b) False

Question 17:

Jean L. Briggs was socially isolated and subtly shunned by the Utku for a period of time during her filed study with them.
a) True
b) False

Question 18:

At the time of Jean L. Briggs’s study, the Utku were mostly self-sufficient and lived largely by hunting and fishing.
a) True
b) False

Question 19:

Values, norms, and expected and allowable behaviour are shockingly similar between different cultures.
a) True
b) False

Question 20:

Hollands’s research shows that the majority of Mohawk youth have embraced many aspects of Western youth culture and have developed a “hybrid” identity.
a) True
b) False

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Thinking About Sociology, Second Edition - Chapter 10