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Sociology Question and answers already passed Sociology - Chapter 3 culture - correct answer totality of learned, socially transmitted customs, knowledge, material and behaviors. It includes the ideas,values and artifcatcts( ex. DVD, comic books, birth control devices, etc) society - correc...

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Sociology - Chapter 3
culture - correct answer ✔totality of learned, socially transmitted customs,
knowledge, material and behaviors. It includes the ideas,values and
artifcatcts( ex. DVD, comic books, birth control devices, etc)


society - correct answer ✔farily large number of peoplewho live in the same
teritory are relatviely indepedent of people outside their area and particpate in
a common culture
1.largest form of human group
2. share common heritage and culture


Theodore Adorno - correct answer ✔globally the primary effct of popular
culture is to limit people's choices. (German philopher)


culture industry - correct answer ✔the worldwide media industry tht
standardizes the goods and services demanded by consumers


cultural universals - correct answer ✔all societies have devloped certain
common practices and beliefs (ex: need for food, shelther and clothes)


George Murdock - correct answer ✔Anthrolopologist - complied list of
cultural universals ( athletic sports, cooking, dancing, visiting, personal
names, marriages, medicine, religion rituals, funneral ceremonies, sexual
restricitions, trade list same, but how to express them varies from culture to
culture


ethnocentrism - correct answer ✔the tendency to assume that one's culture
and way of life represent the norm or are superior to others

, cultural relativism - correct answer ✔viewing people's behavior from the
perspective of their own culture It places a priority on understanding others
cultures rather than dismissing as strange or excotic.


sociobiology - correct answer ✔the systemic study of how biology affects
human social behavior. Asserts many cultural traits juman display are not
learned by te rooted in genetic make up.


Charles Darwin - correct answer ✔founded on sociobiology Theory of
Evolution - natural selection


natural selection - correct answer ✔process of adaption to the environment
through random gentic variation. Assumed that particulat forms of behavior
become genetically linked to species if they contribute to its fitness of surfe


innovation - correct answer ✔process of introducing a new idea or object to a
culture.


discovery - correct answer ✔involves making known or sharing the existence
of an aspect of reality


invention - correct answer ✔results when existing cultural items are
combined into a form that did not exist before.


diffusion - correct answer ✔refer to the process by which a cultural item
spreads from group to group or society to society


technology ` - correct answer ✔cultural information about the ways in which
the material resources of the environment may be used to satisfy human
needs and desires

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