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Subculture is more at odds with dominant culture than counterculture.

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Which of the following statements about technology is true?


A) Nations with more advanced technology are always superior to nations with less advanced technology.
B) Advanced technology improves life in some ways but also threatens it in other ways.
C) Access to technology is evenly distributed across any society's population.
D) Technology does not contribute to or detract from everyday life.

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Cultural universals refer to patterns that are held by everyone in a society.

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Which of the following statements is a good example of cultural lag?


A) gaining the ability to modify genetic patterns before understanding the possible social consequences of this kind of work
B) a slowing in the rate of invention in the computer industry
C) older people trying to make younger people respect tradition
D) virtual culture replacing traditional culture

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All cultures have some common elements.

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Mores are norms that have great moral significance.

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A person who criticizes the Amish farmer as "backward" for tilling his fields with horses and a plow instead of using a tractor is displaying


A) ethnocentrism.
B) cultural relativism.
C) cultural diffusion.
D) cultural integration.

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What is the difference between subculture and counterculture? Define your terms carefully.

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Culture is a source of human freedom because


A) culture does not guide behaviour.
B) all culture changes very quickly.
C) as cultural creatures, humans make and remake the world for themselves.
D) all humans are able to choose their own subculture.

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Which theoretical approach explains why the sexual "double standard" is found around the world?


A) the structural-functional approach
B) the social-conflict approach
C) the symbolic-interaction approach
D) the sociobiology approach

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What is the difference between high culture and popular culture?

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Cultural values in Canada always go together-they are all consistent with one another.

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Cars, computers, and iPhones are all examples of which of the following?


A) high culture
B) material culture
C) norms
D) nonmaterial culture

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The Sapir-Whorf thesis states that the language we use shapes the reality we perceive.

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The term _____ refers to a shared way of life, and the term ____ refers to a political entity.


A) culture; society
B) country; nation
C) nation; culture
D) culture; nation

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Write an essay that highlights the different insights about culture that come from the structural-functional approach, the social-conflict approach, and the sociobiology approach. Is one theoretical approach more right than another? Or does each approach offer insights that are complementary? Explain your position.

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Who, of the following, would be most likely to say that "cultural patterns are rooted in a society's system of economic production"?


A) a structural functionalist
B) a conflict theorist
C) a sociobiologist
D) a symbolic interactionist

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Sociologists refer to tangible or physical human creations as


A) nonmaterial culture.
B) artifacts.
C) technology.
D) values.

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What is the term for the beliefs, values, behaviour, and material objects that together make up a people's way of life?


A) social structure
B) social system
C) culture
D) society

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Give an example of each of the following: (a) folkways, (b) mores, (c) a prescriptive norm, and (d) a proscriptive norm.

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