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Which of the following is true regarding culture? |
| | A) | Culture is genetic. |
| | B) | Culture is passed down from generation to generation. |
| | C) | Culture includes physical artifacts, not abstract creations. |
| | D) | none of the above |
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Songs, languages, and orchestral performances are examples of: |
| | A) | nonmaterial culture. |
| | B) | material culture. |
| | C) | mores. |
| | D) | proprietary culture. |
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A group of people who live within the same territory and share a common culture is called: |
| | A) | a culture. |
| | B) | an iconoclastic enclave. |
| | C) | a society. |
| | D) | none of the above. |
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Which of the following is NOT an example of an American folkway? |
| | A) | the custom of chewing food with one's mouth closed |
| | B) | the practice of shaking hands when greeting someone for the first time |
| | C) | the courtesy of arriving on time for a religious service |
| | D) | the habit of driving on the right-hand side of the road |
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Values: |
| | A) | provide explicit indications of which behaviors are acceptable and which are not. |
| | B) | are narrow ideas about what is desirable, correct, and good. |
| | C) | are defined by symbols. |
| | D) | are general and abstract and do not explicitly specify which behaviors are acceptable and which are not. |
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Helen Keller's account of her life illustrates that: |
| | A) | human beings will die without experience with symbols. |
| | B) | the association between a symbol and an experience allowed her to use the symbol in the absence of the experience. |
| | C) | symbols are not important to those who are blind. |
| | D) | symbols are not learned, but are part of basic human makeup. |
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The patterned and recurrent aspects of life that appear in all known societies are called: |
| | A) | cultural relativism. |
| | B) | requisite societal composition. |
| | C) | cultural universals. |
| | D) | ethnocentrism. |
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Cross-cultural research on infant care has found the following: |
| | A) | All cultures agree on the importance of exclusive mother-infant interaction to encourage bonding in the first 15 months of life. |
| | B) | Methods of caring for babies are linked to other elements of a society's culture. |
| | C) | No culture supports waking a sleeping infant. |
| | D) | Pediatricians are trained to teach parents the one universally accepted set of best practices for raising an infant. |
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Which of the following is an example of a counterculture in the United States? |
| | A) | the old order Amish religious sect |
| | B) | delinquent gangs and satanic cults |
| | C) | the youth culture prevalent in high schools and colleges |
| | D) | employees in large corporations like IBM and AT&T |
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A subculture: |
| | A) | is always at odds with the ways of the larger society. |
| | B) | is a set of patterned and recurrent aspects of life that appear in all known societies. |
| | C) | includes members of a group that participate in the main culture while sharing another culture. |
| | D) | uses a value-free approach that views people from the perspective of their own culture. |
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Amelia was born into a middle-class white family. Both of her parents have an advanced education. Amelia is an aviatrix. Which of the following is an achieved status for Amelia? |
| | A) | middle class |
| | B) | white |
| | C) | advanced education |
| | D) | aviatrix |
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Why is age a master status for children in this society? |
| | A) | A child's age overshadows other statuses in the minds of many people. |
| | B) | People treat children like adults in this society. |
| | C) | American families are very child-centered. |
| | D) | Age is not a master status for children. |
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Leon must finish writing a report for work that is due the next day. His son's school just called and said the child must be picked up from school because he is sick. Leon's wife is out of town on business. As a result, Leon is experiencing: |
| | A) | role strain. |
| | B) | role conflict. |
| | C) | role hypersensitivity. |
| | D) | role reversal. |
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To compliment your professor for delivering a particularly inspiring lecture would be to comment on his/her: |
| | A) | role modeling. |
| | B) | ascribed status. |
| | C) | status conception. |
| | D) | role performance. |
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Which of the following statements concerning roles is FALSE? |
| | A) | A single status may have multiple roles attached to it. |
| | B) | A role does not exist in isolation, but is integrated with the activities of other people. |
| | C) | Roles define duties, but only statuses define rights. |
| | D) | Groups consist of complexes of interlocking roles. |
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Laws are: |
| | A) | actions that others can legitimately insist that we perform. |
| | B) | actions that we can legitimately insist that others perform. |
| | C) | rules that are enforced by a special political organization composed of individuals who enjoy the right to use force. |
| | D) | none of the above |
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People waiting for a bus are an example of a(n): |
| | A) | group. |
| | B) | aggregate. |
| | C) | subculture. |
| | D) | transitory collective. |
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Which of the following is a characteristic of a society? |
| | A) | Members of a society possess a wide variety of values and norms based on their social status. |
| | B) | A group must have at least 1,500 members to be considered a society. |
| | C) | Another term for "society" is "nation-state." |
| | D) | Members of a society comprise a more or less self-sufficient social unit. |
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Horticultural societies: |
| | A) | have no specialized and enduring work groups, governments, or standing armies. |
| | B) | exhibit increased power of the state and size of the territory it controls. |
| | C) | experience the emergence of social stratification due to production of a social surplus. |
| | D) | have complex divisions of labor and exchange relationships. |
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Which of the following is NOT a characteristic of a postindustrial society? |
| | A) | Increasing numbers of workers are employed in the service sector. |
| | B) | Many processes in the work place are automated. |
| | C) | Economic self-sufficiency is displaced by complex divisions of labor, exchange relationships, and national and international market systems. |
| | D) | Changes are accompanied by the knowledge explosion based on the creation, processing, and distribution of knowledge. |
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