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Sociology Chapter 2 Review Questions with 100% correct answers | verified | latest update 2024
Sociology Chapter 2 Review Questions with 100% correct answers | verified | latest update 2024
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Sociology: Chapter 2 ReviewAcculturation - correct answer-Process of acquiring the culture of a group or society other
than one's own
Artifact(cultural artifact)/material culture - correct answer-Set of physical objects constructed
by the people of a culture
Beliefs - correct answer-Theories and ideas about the nature of the physical and social world
Counterculture - correct answer-Group that rejects the values and norms of a larger culture
and replaces them with a new set
Cultural relativism - correct answer-Principle that behavior in one culture should not be
judged by the standards of another
Cultural trait, complex - correct answer-Single object, action, or belief produced by a
culture/set of interrelated cultural traits
Cultural universals - correct answer-Features of a society that are common to all cultures
Cultural values - correct answer-Collection of what is considered good, desirable, and proper
in a culture
Culture - correct answer-System of values, norms, symbols, and knowledge that a society
shares.
Diffusion - correct answer-Process by which cultural items are spread from group to group or
society to society
Essay - correct answer-Describe the subculture of American teenagers in as much detail as
possible. In your answer, correctly incorporate the following terms: cultural traits, culture
complex, material culture, nonmaterial culture, norms, values, sanctions.
Ethnocentrism - correct answer-Tendency to assume that one's own culture is normal in
superior to all others
Folkways - correct answer-Every day habits and conventions of a people
Globalization - correct answer-A set of processes of social change
Hedonism - correct answer-Pursuit of pleasure above all other values
Ideal culture - correct answer-A collection of cultural believes that define what people in a
culture should do as well as what they say they do
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