Nonmaterial culture - Study guides, Class notes & Summaries

how to behave in accordance with what a society has defined as right, good, and important and most members of society adhere to them - ️️norms the deliberate imposition of one's own cultural values on another cultlure - ️️cultural imperialism objects evaluating and judging another culture based on how it compares to one's own cultural norms - ️️ethnocentrism or belongings of a people - ️️material culture are almost all human behaviors learned? - ️️yes patterns or tr...

Traumatic Brain Injury - Answer-wound to the brain that results from a blow to the head Spinal Cord - Answer-part of the CNS encased within the vertebrae that descends from the brainstem through a canal in the backbone; provides most of the connections between the brain and the rest of the body Central Nervous System - Answer-the brain and the spinal cord, which mediate behavior Peripheral Nervous System - Answer-all of the neurons in the body outside the brain and spinal cord; provides se...

MCAT Psych/Sociology from 132 Scorer Study Guide Test. Biopsychosocial approach to health and illness - CORRECT ANSWER Illness is determined by a variety of influences, rather than a single cause. The causes and effects of illness can be examined at multiple levels in the life of an individual, and no single level provides the whole picture. Collecting info about psychosocial context is key to the understanding of physical health and illness. Biomedical approach to health and illness - C...

Culture - Answer The sum total of knowledge, attitudes and habitual behavior patterns shared and transmitted by the members of a society. Folk Culture - Answer cultural traits such as dress modes, dwellings traditions, and institutions of usually small, traditional communities. Popular Culture - Answer Cultural traits such as dress, diet, and music that identify and are part of today's changeable, urban based, media influenced western societies. Local Culture - Answer Group of ...

CLEP Sociology Latest 2023 Graded A+ research methods both strategy or plan for carrying out research and the means of carrying out the strategy quantitative methods statistical or other mathematical techniques of measurement qualitative methods reliance on personal observation and description of social life in order to explain behavior verstehen understanding as a means of characterizing and interpreting or explaining, done through applying reason to the external and inner context of specifi...

SOCI 200 Family and Religion: Quiz 3 – Liberty University | QUESTIONS & ANSWERS| ALREADY PASSED| VERIFIED & UPDATED • Question 1 2 out of 2 points ___________ is the practice of judging another culture or person by the standards of one’s own culture or personal values. Selected Answer: Ethnocentrism • Question 2 2 out of 2 points ___________ are anything that carries a particular meaning recognized by people who share a culture. Selected Answer: Symbols • Question 3 2 ou...

Sociology: Chapters 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 exam questions and answers Sociological Perspective Correct Answer-Seeing the general in the particular. Sociologists look for general patterns in particular people. Although every individual is unique, society shapes the lives of people in various categories differently. Global Perspective Correct Answer-The study of the larger world and our society's place within it. Sociology: The beginning Correct Answer-Driving forces led to its development: -indus...

Task of Global Marketers - ANSWER-•Study and understand the cultures of countries in which they will be doing business •Understand how an unconscious reference to their own cultural values, or self-reference criterion, may influence their perception of the market •Incorporate this understanding into the marketing planning process Culture - ANSWER-Ways of living, built up by a group of human beings, that are transmitted from one generation to another • Culture is acted out in social...

Who was the founder of conflict theory? Karl Marx Which idea did Auguste Comte introduce to the field of sociology? Positivism Which sociological perspective views society as being made up of groups competing for scarce resources? Conflict theory How would a functionalist theory explain the complexity of American families in the early twenty-first century? The complex patterns of family life permit greater economic and emotional security for individuals from diverse back...

Chapter 03 Culture     
Multiple Choice Questions
  1. Anthropologist Horace Miner's description of the body ritual among the Nacirema is used to show 
A. cultural differences in what is considered "beautiful."
B. the effects of media on a person's body image.
C. the ability to learn something new about society.
D. how cultural sociology has evolved over the years.   
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