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1

What term describes the learned, shared understandings among a group of people about how to behave and what everything means?
A)morality
B)humanism
C)society
D)culture
2

The process of learning and acquiring culture is called:
A)archaeology
B)acculturation
C)enculturation
D)exculturation
3

Which of the following does NOT apply to the definition of a society? A society:
A)usually has its own territory
B)is at least partly self-governing
C)consists of a group of people organized into social relationships
D)always has a ruling class
4

A group within a society that maintains a subculture based on religion, language, common origin, or ancestral traditions may be called a (n):
A)lineage
B)ethnic group
C)biological race
D)secret society
5

The intentional display of cultural difference by members of ethnic groups may be called ethnic:
A)codes
B)flags
C)banners
D)conflict
6

What is ethnicity?
A)a term synonymous to race
B)any subculture in a society
C)a term to describe cultural elements that are passed on genetically
D)one's identification with or participation with an ethnic group
7

The cultural rule in the U.S. that automatically places the child of two parents of different races into the lower status racial category is called:
A)hypodescent
B)assimilation
C)unilineal descent
D)enculturation
8

Shared understandings of what is good and right to do and to be, as well as what is bad and wrong, are called:
A)rules
B)guilt
C)values
D)religion
9

What approach entails examining other cultures without judging them by our own standards?
A)ethnocentrism
B)relativism
C)holism
D)systematic
10

What is a symbol?
A)a set of mutually influential relationships among the parts in a culture
B)biological differences between populations
C)anything assigned meaning by its users
D)information given by informants
11

The increasingly dense web of communication, trade, and travel that people all over the world are drawn into is often called:
A)universalization
B)globalization
C)capitalism
D)symbolism
12

Conceptions of the wilderness in North America from the 17th century to the present reveal that culture:
A)remains static
B)always imitates nature
C)seeks to destroy nature
D)is a constructed phenomenon
13

The culture change in one population that has come into contact with another, usually larger and dominant population is called:
A)acculturation
B)enculturation
C)genocide
D)independent invention
14

What is an ethnography?
A)ethical rules for anthropological research
B)the anthropological term for one's field site
C)a description of a culture
D)the questionnaire used for an interview
15

Which of the following is NOT one of the widely agreed-upon characteristics of culture?
A)cultures are integrated
B)cultures depend upon symbolic communication
C)cultures depend upon complete consensus
D)cultures are outcomes of history





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