True or False Quiz


1	In the view of sociologists, a portrait by Rembrandt is an aspect of culture; a portrait of a billboard painter is not.
		A)	True
		B)	False


2	Some of the examples of cultural universals noted in your text are athletic sports, funerals, medicine, and war.
		A)	True
		B)	False


3	There are two forms of innovation: discovery and diffusion.
		A)	True
		B)	False


4	The material culture is more resistant to change than the nonmaterial culture.
		A)	True
		B)	False


5	The requirements for a college major and the rules of a card game are considered informal norms.
		A)	True
		B)	False


6	Conformity to a norm can lead to positive sanctions.
		A)	True
		B)	False


7	From a functionalist perspective, the dominant ideology has major social significance. Not only do a society's most powerful groups and institutions control wealth and property; even more important, they control the means of producing beliefs about reality through religion, education, and the family.
		A)	True
		B)	False


8	The dominant ideology in the United States holds that people are poor largely because of their own shortcomings.
		A)	True
		B)	False


9	Cultural relativism requires that we unquestionably accept every form of behavior characteristic of a culture.
		A)	True
		B)	False


10	The Sapir-Whorf hypothesis suggests that language not only describes, but also shapes a culture.
		A)	True
		B)	False

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