Culture And Mass Media Exam Questions Eglitis Ch.3 - Complete Test Bank Discover Sociology 5e with Answers by Daina S. Eglitis. DOCX document preview.
Chapter 3: Culture and Mass Media
Test Bank
Multiple Choice
1. The beliefs, norms, behaviors, and products common to the members of a particular group are referred to as ______.
a. ethnicity
b. culture
c. society
d. class
Learning Objective: 3.1: Define the component parts of culture, including beliefs, values, norms, and taboos.
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: Culture: Concepts and Applications
Difficulty Level: Easy
2. The physical objects important to a culture, such as homes, games, and substances found in the local environment, are referred to as which of the following?
a. real culture
b. nonmaterial culture
c. material culture
d. products
Learning Objective: 3.1: Define the component parts of culture, including beliefs, values, norms, and taboos.
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: Material and Nonmaterial Culture
Difficulty Level: Easy
3. Creations that encompass the beliefs, norms, and values of a culture are referred to as ______.
a. philosophies
b. nonmaterial culture
c. material culture
d. theories
Learning Objective: 3.1: Define the component parts of culture, including beliefs, values, norms, and taboos.
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: Material and Nonmaterial Culture
Difficulty Level: Easy
4. Which of the following is an example of material culture?
a. sharing your opinion with a family member
b. an American flag
c. talking while waiting for a meal
d. polite table manners and proper use of utensils
Learning Objective: 3.1: Define the component parts of culture, including beliefs, values, norms, and taboos.
Cognitive Domain: Application
Answer Location: Material and Nonmaterial Culture
Difficulty Level: Hard
5. Which of the following is an example of nonmaterial culture?
a. textbooks for school
b. speaking proper English
c. college campuses
d. computers in the library
Learning Objective: 3.1: Define the component parts of culture, including beliefs, values, norms, and taboos.
Cognitive Domain: Application
Answer Location: Material and Nonmaterial Culture
Difficulty Level: Hard
6. Particular ideas that people accept as true are best referred to as which concept?
a. religion
b. cultural norms
c. values
d. beliefs
Learning Objective: 3.1: Define the component parts of culture, including beliefs, values, norms, and taboos.
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: Material and Nonmaterial Culture
Difficulty Level: Easy
7. Common rules of a culture that govern the behavior of people belonging to it are referred to as ______.
a. attitudes
b. beliefs
c. norms
d. values
Learning Objective: 3.1: Define the component parts of culture, including beliefs, values, norms, and taboos.
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: Material and Nonmaterial Culture
Difficulty Level: Easy
8. Which concept best represents a type of norm?
a. values
b. beliefs
c. folkways
d. thoughts
Learning Objective: 3.1: Define the component parts of culture, including beliefs, values, norms, and taboos.
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: Material and Nonmaterial Culture
Difficulty Level: Medium
9. Which is an example of a societal norm?
a. sitting close to a stranger on a bus
b. eating breakfast at dinner time
c. sitting at a desk facing the front of the classroom
d. eating lunch on the sidewalk
Learning Objective: 3.1: Define the component parts of culture, including beliefs, values, norms, and taboos.
Cognitive Domain: Application
Answer Location: Material and Nonmaterial Culture
Difficulty Level: Hard
10. Which is an example of nonmaterial culture?
a. slang words
b. food
c. uniforms
d. decorations
Learning Objective: 3.1: Define the component parts of culture, including beliefs, values, norms, and taboos.
Cognitive Domain: Application
Answer Location: Material and Nonmaterial Culture
Difficulty Level: Hard
11. Which strongly held norm causes offense if violated?
a. belief
b. law
c. mores
d. folkways
Learning Objective: 3.1: Define the component parts of culture, including beliefs, values, norms, and taboos.
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: Material and Nonmaterial Culture
Difficulty Level: Easy
12. Which of the following is a violation of a mores?
a. not saying “you’re welcome” when someone says “thank you”
b. coming to class intoxicated
c. arriving to a party two hours late
d. whispering to the student next to you in class
Learning Objective: 3.1: Define the component parts of culture, including beliefs, values, norms, and taboos.
Cognitive Domain: Application
Answer Location: Material and Nonmaterial Culture
Difficulty Level: Hard
13. Which of the following is a violation of a folkway?
a. cheating on an exam
b. not offering your bus seat to an elderly person
c. robbing a convenience store
d. shouting and swearing at the professor during class
Learning Objective: 3.1: Define the component parts of culture, including beliefs, values, norms, and taboos.
Cognitive Domain: Application
Answer Location: Material and Nonmaterial Culture
Difficulty Level: Hard
14. Which are considered the weakest norms?
a. laws
b. folkways
c. taboos
d. mores
Learning Objective: 3.1: Define the component parts of culture, including beliefs, values, norms, and taboos.
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: Material and Nonmaterial Culture
Difficulty Level: Medium
15. Which example best represents a taboo in American society?
a. A politician accepts campaign donations from a multibillion-dollar corporation.
b. A politician pushes taxpayer dollars toward a cause that benefits them in some way.
c. A politician publicly announces support for anti-abortion legislation.
d. A politician engages in an extramarital affair.
Learning Objective: 3.1: Define the component parts of culture, including beliefs, values, norms, and taboos.
Cognitive Domain: Analysis
Answer Location: Material and Nonmaterial Culture
Difficulty Level: Medium
16. What characterizes laws?
a. They are based on universal static norms.
b. They are commonly understood norms.
c. They are formal and institutionalized norms.
d. They are informal norms.
Learning Objective: 3.1: Define the component parts of culture, including beliefs, values, norms, and taboos.
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: Material and Nonmaterial Culture
Difficulty Level: Medium
17. Jaywalking, or not crossing the street at the crosswalk, is a violation of ______.
a. folkways
b. norms
c. mores
d. laws
Learning Objective: 3.1: Define the component parts of culture, including beliefs, values, norms, and taboos.
Cognitive Domain: Application
Answer Location: Material and Nonmaterial Culture
Difficulty Level: Hard
18. Folkways are best described as which of the following?
a. weak norms
b. strong norms
c. weak mores
d. strong mores
Learning Objective: 3.1: Define the component parts of culture, including beliefs, values, norms, and taboos.
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: Material and Nonmaterial Culture
Difficulty Level: Medium
19. Which concept refers to abstract and general standards in society that define ideal principles such as right and wrong?
a. laws
b. public opinions
c. beliefs
d. values
Learning Objective: 3.1: Define the component parts of culture, including beliefs, values, norms, and taboos.
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: Material and Nonmaterial Culture
Difficulty Level: Easy
20. Which concept best describes the general ideas about what is good or right?
a. laws
b. values
c. folkways
d. norms
Learning Objective: 3.1: Define the component parts of culture, including beliefs, values, norms, and taboos.
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: Material and Nonmaterial Culture
Difficulty Level: Easy
21. Which of the following would be considered an American value?
a. Creativity and innovation are useless—it is better to just follow the crowd.
b. Hard work and effort will get you nowhere in life.
c. Everyone deserves an equal chance to succeed.
d. Laws should be based on religious beliefs.
Learning Objective: 3.1: Define the component parts of culture, including beliefs, values, norms, and taboos.
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: Material and Nonmaterial Culture
Difficulty Level: Medium
22. Codified norms that formalize and institutionalize society’s norms are called ______.
a. laws
b. beliefs
c. values
d. mores
Learning Objective: 3.1: Define the component parts of culture, including beliefs, values, norms, and taboos.
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: Material and Nonmaterial Culture
Difficulty Level: Medium
23. American society professes to embrace marital fidelity as a value, yet some individuals are unfaithful to their spouses. This is an example of which of the following?
a. ideal–real inconsistency
b. cultural inconsistency
c. cultural contradiction
d. ideal–real disconnect
Learning Objective: 3.1: Define the component parts of culture, including beliefs, values, norms, and taboos.
Cognitive Domain: Application
Answer Location: Ideal and Real Culture in U.S. Society
Difficulty Level: Hard
24. Which cultural perspective most likely leads to ethnocentrism?
a. taboo
b. etic
c. emic
d. cultural relativism
Learning Objective: 3.1: Define the component parts of culture, including beliefs, values, norms, and taboos.
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: Ethnocentrism
Difficulty Level: Medium
25. Which perspective best allows a sociologist to rigorously examine the roots of cultural practices?
a. ethnocentrism
b. pluralism
c. multiculturalism
d. cultural relativism
Learning Objective: 3.1: Define the component parts of culture, including beliefs, values, norms, and taboos.
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: Ethnocentrism
Difficulty Level: Medium
26. The purpose of Herbert Miner’s description of the rituals of the so-called Nacirema is to describe American culture from a(n) ______ perspective.
a. subcultural
b. emic
c. etic
d. countercultural
Learning Objective: 3.1: Define the component parts of culture, including beliefs, values, norms, and taboos.
Cognitive Domain: Analysis
Answer Location: Ethnocentrism
Difficulty Level: Medium
27. A culture that exists together with a dominant culture but differs from it in some important respects is referred to as a(n) ______.
a. ethnicity
b. subculture
c. counterculture
d. subgroup
Learning Objective: 3.1: Define the component parts of culture, including beliefs, values, norms, and taboos.
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: Subcultures
Difficulty Level: Easy
28. Which of the following would be considered a counterculture?
a. regulations in bureaucratic organizations
b. rules of respect in graffiti crews
c. codes of conduct in school
d. federal laws and guidelines
Learning Objective: 3.1: Define the component parts of culture, including beliefs, values, norms, and taboos.
Cognitive Domain: Application
Answer Location: Subcultures
Difficulty Level: Hard
29. Which perspective views culture from the perspective of an outside observer?
a. etic perspective
b. emic perspective
c. doxic perspective
d. subculture perspective
Learning Objective: 3.1: Define the component parts of culture, including beliefs, values, norms, and taboos.
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: Ethnocentrism
Difficulty Level: Easy
30. A researcher who engages in participant observation in a subculture aims to apply which perspective?
a. an ethnocentric perspective
b. a cultural relativism perspective
c. an etic perspective
d. an emic perspective
Learning Objective: 3.1: Define the component parts of culture, including beliefs, values, norms, and taboos.
Cognitive Domain: Application
Answer Location: Ethnocentrism
Difficulty Level: Hard
31. Which of the following is an example of the violation of a folkway?
a. robbing someone at gunpoint
b. cheating on a spouse
c. helping a blind person cross the road
d. failing to hold the door open for someone
Learning Objective: 3.1: Define the component parts of culture, including beliefs, values, norms, and taboos.
Cognitive Domain: Application
Answer Location: Norms
Difficulty Level: Hard
32. A large concert attracts many teenage concertgoers who like rock music. The teenagers are respectful of each other and of the rules of the community during the concert. Which group do the teenagers belong to?
a. counterculture
b. dominant culture
c. popular culture
d. subculture
Learning Objective: 3.1: Define the component parts of culture, including beliefs, values, norms, and taboos.
Cognitive Domain: Application
Answer Location: Subcultures
Difficulty Level: Hard
33. In the United States, citizens have the right to free speech whether it agrees with the government or not. This is an example of which of the following?
a. values
b. norms
c. taboos
d. mores
Learning Objective: 3.1: Define the component parts of culture, including beliefs, values, norms, and taboos.
Cognitive Domain: Application
Answer Location: Values
Difficulty Level: Hard
34. Which of the following is an example of a counterculture?
a. teenagers at a school dance
b. motorcyclists on a charity run
c. politicians creating policy
d. musicians singing about breaking the law
Learning Objective: 3.1: Define the component parts of culture, including beliefs, values, norms, and taboos.
Cognitive Domain: Application
Answer Location: Subcultures
Difficulty Level: Hard
35. What is the Sapir–Whorf hypothesis?
a. Language shapes our perception of the social world.
b. Culture is inescapable; everyone is influenced by culture.
c. Control over language can be used as a tool of oppression.
d. One’s first language will always be dominant.
Learning Objective: 3.2: Recognize the importance of language in representing and creating culture.
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: Culture and Language
Difficulty Level: Easy
36. Which statement regarding language is true?
a. It is tied to cultural objects and practices.
b. It is limited to verbal representations.
c. It is used to convey universal meaning.
d. It is a biological system.
Learning Objective: 3.2: Recognize the importance of language in representing and creating culture.
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: Culture and Language
Difficulty Level: Medium
37. The symbolic system that conveys meaning within cultures is known as ______.
a. habitus
b. language
c. folkways
d. simulacra
Learning Objective: 3.2: Recognize the importance of language in representing and creating culture.
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: Culture and Language
Difficulty Level: Easy
38. How does language deliver culture?
a. It creates exclusivity of thought.
b. It creates ethnocentric beliefs.
c. It creates cultural inequality.
d. It creates cultural meaning.
Learning Objective: 3.2: Recognize the importance of language in representing and creating culture.
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: Culture and Language
Difficulty Level: Medium
39. How would the Sapir–Whorf hypothesis view the use of facial expressions?
a. This hypothesis proposes that facial expressions are not verbally produced and therefore not part of language.
b. The hypothesis proposes that language is based on biology and facial expressions are unintentional biological reactions.
c. The hypothesis proposes that language symbolizes cultural meaning, including nonverbal communication.
d. The hypothesis proposes that facial expressions are considered insignificant contributions to languages.
Learning Objective: 3.2: Recognize the importance of language in representing and creating culture.
Cognitive Domain: Analysis
Answer Location: Culture and Language
Difficulty Level: Medium
40. Research has demonstrated that code switching is mostly associated with which of the following?
a. racial and ethnic groups
b. countercultures
c. subcultures
d. dominant culture
Learning Objective: 3.2: Recognize the importance of language in representing and creating culture.
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: Language, Social Integration, and Social Conflict
Difficulty Level: Medium
41. Embracing cultural diversity and recognizing that it enriches a country is referred to as ______.
a. multiculturalism
b. cultural relativism
c. ethnocentrism
d. linguistic tolerance
Learning Objective: 3.2: Recognize the importance of language in representing and creating culture.
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: Language, Social Integration, and Social Conflict
Difficulty Level: Easy
42. Which of the following would be characteristic of a functionalist perspective of having a national language?
a. It keeps society’s members separated by class.
b. It can translate into divided values and norms.
c. It can lead to disruptive social change.
d. It can serve as a tool for social integration of immigrants.
Learning Objective: 3.2: Recognize the importance of language in representing and creating culture.
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: Language, Social Integration, and Social Conflict
Difficulty Level: Medium
43. Some people argue that the United States should become an official bilingual country. How would functionalists view an official bilingual United States?
a. Functionalists would see the use of two languages as a means of separating social classes.
b. Functionalists would be against bilingualism, as it undermines common socialization.
c. Functionalists would see bilingualism as a means of keeping two cultures separate.
d. Functionalists would believe that it would facilitate the coexistence of two cultures.
Learning Objective: 3.2: Recognize the importance of language in representing and creating culture.
Cognitive Domain: Analysis
Answer Location: Language, Social Integration, and Social Conflict
Difficulty Level: Medium
44. Which of the following would best exemplify multiculturalism?
a. forcing immigrants to follow the norms and values of the dominant culture
b. asking immigrants to blend their culture with the dominant culture
c. allowing immigrants to keep their culture side-by-side with the dominant culture
d. requiring immigrants to abolish their culture and embrace the dominant culture
Learning Objective: 3.2: Recognize the importance of language in representing and creating culture.
Cognitive Domain: Application
Answer Location: Language, Social Integration, and Social Conflict
Difficulty Level: Hard
45. Which of the following is the best example of code switching?
a. Someone uses the local dialect when they return home.
b. Someone uses a different way of expression when interaction with people from a different ethnic group.
c. Someone uses nonverbal communication while interacting with others.
d. Someone uses sign language to communicate with deaf people.
Learning Objective: 3.2: Recognize the importance of language in representing and creating culture.
Cognitive Domain: Application
Answer Location: Language, Social Integration, and Social Conflict
Difficulty Level: Hard
46. Which of the following best captures the mass media?
a. medium of private communication
b. vehicle of transmitting superfluous information
c. intended to reach and influence a smaller target audience
d. article of mass consumption
Learning Objective: 3.3: Discuss the relationship between culture and mass media and the debate over mass culture and violence.
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: Culture and Mass Media
Difficulty Level: Medium
47. Culture that is associated with wealthier and more refined people is referred to as ______ culture?
a. mass
b. upper-class
c. high
d. popular
Learning Objective: 3.4: Explain how sociologists theorize the relationship between culture and social class.
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: Culture and Mass Media
Difficulty Level: Easy
48. How would a conflict perspective view high culture?
a. High culture is designed to limit who can enjoy it, thereby emphasizing social inequality.
b. High culture motivates poorer people to work harder.
c. People define themselves according to their ability to participate in high culture.
d. High culture provides meaning to everyday life.
Learning Objective: 3.4: Explain how sociologists theorize the relationship between culture and social class.
Cognitive Domain: Analysis
Answer Location: Culture and Mass Media
Difficulty Level: Medium
49. A couple is hungry and decides to go to a restaurant. They look online at reviews and menus of local restaurants and find one that serves an assortment of trendy and exclusive foods. This couple participates in which type of culture?
a. high culture
b. real culture
c. ideal culture
d. popular culture
Learning Objective: 3.4: Explain how sociologists theorize the relationship between culture and social class.
Cognitive Domain: Application
Answer Location: Culture and Mass Media
Difficulty Level: Hard
50. From a functionalist perspective, what is a dysfunction of mass news media?
a. It provides information too quickly.
b. It provides biased coverage.
c. It seeks to inform too many at once.
d. It covers a large volume of information.
Learning Objective: 3.3: Discuss the relationship between culture and mass media and the debate over mass culture and violence.
Cognitive Domain: Analysis
Answer Location: Culture and Mass Media
Difficulty Level: Medium
51. Which of the following is a characteristic of rape culture?
a. Legislative and judicial processes regarding rape utilize a female viewpoint.
b. The legal system takes rape more seriously than other crimes.
c. The legal system treats male sexual aggression as deviant.
d. Victims are blamed for their victimization during legal proceedings.
Learning Objective: 3.3: Discuss the relationship between culture and mass media and the debate over mass culture and violence.
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: Culture, Media, and Violence
Difficulty Level: Medium
52. Which of the following pieces of media would most likely reinforce rape culture?
a. a TV show about the emotional damage of sexual assault
b. a movie that ends in a couple’s divorce
c. a video game that rewards violence
d. a music video about a house party
Learning Objective: 3.3: Discuss the relationship between culture and mass media and the debate over mass culture and violence.
Cognitive Domain: Analysis
Answer Location: Culture, Media, and Violence
Difficulty Level: Medium
53. Based on the conflict perspective, how would rape culture be viewed?
a. It provides meaning to male aggression.
b. It underscores gender inequality.
c. It serves to outline flaws in the legal system.
d. It helps prevent females from being victimized.
Learning Objective: 3.3: Discuss the relationship between culture and mass media and the debate over mass culture and violence.
Cognitive Domain: Analysis
Answer Location: Culture, Media, and Violence
Difficulty Level: Medium
54. A toy company comes out with a new line of foam rifles to be marketed to boys. The marketing team decides to play into the idea that boys and men are naturally combative. What is this an example of?
a. violent masculinity
b. direct violence
c. popular violence
d. implied masculinity
Learning Objective: 3.3: Discuss the relationship between culture and mass media and the debate over mass culture and violence.
Cognitive Domain: Application
Answer Location: Culture, Media, and Violence
Difficulty Level: Hard
55. The advantages and disadvantages passed down from generation to generation are referred to as which concept?
a. habitus
b. social class reproduction
c. the culture of poverty
d. class regeneration
Learning Objective: 3.4: Explain how sociologists theorize the relationship between culture and social class.
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: Culture, Class, and Inequality
Difficulty Level: Easy
56. Which of the following best represents a valuable form of cultural capital in dominant U.S. high culture?
a. knowing how to operate a tractor-trailer truck
b. having parents who hold steady blue-collar jobs
c. having an “ear” for classical composers
d. being able to identify healthy foods
Learning Objective: 3.4: Explain how sociologists theorize the relationship between culture and social class.
Cognitive Domain: Application
Answer Location: Culture, Class, and Inequality
Difficulty Level: Hard
57. Which concept refers to the acquired behavior patterns and tendencies that people develop throughout the life course?
b. socialization
c. cultural tastes
d. habitus
Learning Objective: 3.4: Explain how sociologists theorize the relationship between culture and social class.
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: Culture, Class, and Inequality
Difficulty Level: Easy
58. Habitus is the concept that ______.
a. reproductions are sometimes more real than reality
b. value can be found in knowledge and skills
c. social class is reproduced across generations
d. people come to want what they can realistically have
Learning Objective: 3.4: Explain how sociologists theorize the relationship between culture and social class.
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: Culture, Class, and Inequality
Difficulty Level: Medium
59. A child of two successful surgeons choosing to attend medical school because he says he has an interest in science and health is an example of which concept?
a. habitus
b. ideal culture
c. popular culture
d. mainstream culture
Learning Objective: 3.4: Explain how sociologists theorize the relationship between culture and social class.
Cognitive Domain: Application
Answer Location: Culture, Class, and Inequality
Difficulty Level: Hard
60. The owner of a large corporation dies and leaves his business holdings to his children. What are the children enjoying?
a. cultural capital
b. global culture
c. economic capital
d. social capital
Learning Objective: 3.4: Explain how sociologists theorize the relationship between culture and social class.
Cognitive Domain: Application
Answer Location: Culture, Class, and Inequality
Difficulty Level: Hard
61. The child of a successful business owner decides to become an anthropologist. What is this an example of?
a. habitus
b. agency
c. ethnocentrism
d. globalization
Learning Objective: 3.4: Explain how sociologists theorize the relationship between culture and social class.
Cognitive Domain: Application
Answer Location: Culture, Class, and Inequality
Difficulty Level: Hard
62. The process by which people across the world are becoming increasingly connected is known as what?
a. cultural relativism
b. habitus
c. globalization
d. multiculturalism
Learning Objective: 3.5: Apply functionalist and conflict perspectives to the phenomenon of global culture.
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: Culture and Globalization
Difficulty Level: Easy
63. Which of the following is considered a characteristic of global culture?
a. heavily influenced by Asian culture
b. spread via mass media, such as films and pop music
c. limited to Western countries in Europe and to North America
d. marked by dominance of cultural foods
Learning Objective: 3.5: Apply functionalist and conflict perspectives to the phenomenon of global culture.
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: Culture and Globalization
Difficulty Level: Medium
64. Which of the following statements represents a functionalist view of globalization?
a. Globalization is a dividing force that will promote class conflict on a worldwide scale.
b. Small, independent eateries that serve food will be replaced by chain restaurants, resulting in the loss of indigenous cuisine.
c. Globalized norms and values will strengthen social symbols of inequality and power.
d. Corporations will help to provide a sense of economic stability for people.
Learning Objective: 3.5: Apply functionalist and conflict perspectives to the phenomenon of global culture.
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: Culture and Globalization
Difficulty Level: Medium
65. Which of the following statements reflects a conflict perspective on globalization?
a. The spread of fast-food chains increases culture sharing and globalization.
b. The spread of corporations disconnects people from owning their own means of production.
c. Unique, indigenous cultures become more valued.
d. The spread of large corporations promotes stability and integration as people share similar working conditions.
Learning Objective: 3.5: Apply functionalist and conflict perspectives to the phenomenon of global culture.
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: Culture and Globalization
Difficulty Level: Medium
66. How would Marx view globalization?
a. as a means of helping the working class gain equality
b. as a means of capitalist power and economic domination
c. as a means of increasing economic solidarity
d. as a means of promoting the local culture of the working class
Learning Objective: 3.5: Apply functionalist and conflict perspectives to the phenomenon of global culture.
Cognitive Domain: Analysis
Answer Location: Culture and Globalization
Difficulty Level: Medium
67. Which term refers to the ability of a local culture to absorb outside influences that are viewed as beneficial and enrich their culture while resisting those that are not?
a. globalization
b. grobalization
c. glocalization
d. acculturalization
Learning Objective: 3.5: Apply functionalist and conflict perspectives to the phenomenon of global culture.
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: Culture and Globalization
Difficulty Level: Easy
68. Which view of globalization emphasizes imperialistic ambitions?
a. cultural relativism
b. grobalization
c. glocalization
d. ethnocentrism
Learning Objective: 3.5: Apply functionalist and conflict perspectives to the phenomenon of global culture.
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: Culture and Globalization
Difficulty Level: Easy
69. A culture that has local elements as well as international elements is best captured by which of the following concepts?
b. glocalization
c. cultural relativism
d. ethnocentrism
Learning Objective: 3.5: Apply functionalist and conflict perspectives to the phenomenon of global culture.
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: Culture and Globalization
Difficulty Level: Medium
70. The increasing use of Western-based credit cards worldwide is best captured by which concept?
a. globalization
b. glocalization
c. grobalization
d. localization
Learning Objective: 3.5: Apply functionalist and conflict perspectives to the phenomenon of global culture.
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: Culture and Globalization
Difficulty Level: Easy
True/False
1. Beliefs need to be objectively true.
Learning Objective: 3.1: Define the component parts of culture, including beliefs, values, norms, and taboos.
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: Material and Nonmaterial Culture
Difficulty Level: Easy
2. Violating a more is not considered offensive because these are traditional and weak norms that are not considered important..
Learning Objective: 3.1: Define the component parts of culture, including beliefs, values, norms, and taboos.
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: Material and Nonmaterial Culture
Difficulty Level: Medium
3. Deeply entrenched values can be powerful and, in some cases, dangerous, as they are often used to justify or defend certain behaviors.
Learning Objective: 3.1: Define the component parts of culture, including beliefs, values, norms, and taboos.
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: Material and Nonmaterial Culture
Difficulty Level: Medium
4. The Sapir–Whorf hypothesis posits that a language will reflect the importance of objects and practices in a culture.
Learning Objective: 3.2: Recognize the importance of language in representing and creating culture.
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: Culture and Language
Difficulty Level: Easy
5. Language includes nonverbal communication.
Learning Objective: 3.2: Recognize the importance of language in representing and creating culture.
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: Culture and the Language
Difficulty Level: Medium
6. Rape culture is just a theory; it does not reflect the actual prevalence of rape in the United States.
Learning Objective: 3.3: Discuss the relationship between culture and mass media and the debate over mass culture and violence.
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: Culture, Media, and Violence
Difficulty Level: Medium
7. High culture remains stable over time.
Learning Objective: 3.3: Discuss the relationship between culture and mass media and the debate over mass culture and violence.
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: Culture and Mass Media
Difficulty Level: Easy
8. Going to the opera or the ballet are both examples of high culture.
Learning Objective: 3.3: Discuss the relationship between culture and mass media and the debate over mass culture and violence.
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: Culture and Mass Media
Difficulty Level: Easy
9. Celebrities typically do not contribute to popular culture.
Learning Objective: 3.3: Discuss the relationship between culture and mass media and the debate over mass culture and violence.
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: Culture and Mass Media
Difficulty Level: Easy
10. Economic capital is synonymous with high culture.
Learning Objective: 3.4: Explain how sociologists theorize the relationship between culture and social class.
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: Culture, Class, and Inequality
Difficulty Level: Easy
Short Answer
1. Explain the difference between material and nonmaterial culture. Provide three specific examples of each type of culture.
Learning Objective: 3.1: Define the component parts of culture, including beliefs, values, norms, and taboos.
Cognitive Domain: Analysis
Answer Location: Material and Nonmaterial Culture
Difficulty Level: Medium
2. Imagine you are at a doctor’s office. The doctor carries a stethoscope, wears a lab coat, and speaks to you in a professional, respectful manner. Identify which elements of this doctor’s visit are material and which are nonmaterial, and explain your reasoning.
Learning Objective: 3.1: Define the component parts of culture, including beliefs, values, norms, and taboos.
Cognitive Domain: Application
Answer Location: Material and Nonmaterial Culture
Difficulty Level: Hard
3. Explain the difference between an etic and an emic perspective and discuss the relationship of these perspectives to ethnocentrism and cultural relativism.
Learning Objective: 3.1: Define the component parts of culture, including beliefs, values, norms, and taboos.
Cognitive Domain: Analysis
Answer Location: Ethnocentrism
Difficulty Level: Medium
4. Explain Baudrillard’s concept of hyperreality, provide an example, and briefly explain your example.
Learning Objective: 3.3: Discuss the relationship between culture and mass media and the debate over mass culture and violence.
Cognitive Domain: Analysis
Answer Location: Culture and Mass Media
Difficulty Level: Medium
5. Your professor asks you to give a classroom presentation about the topic of simulacra in the context of photoshopping and self-presentation. Write a short speech based on this prompt. It should include which major sociological theory you would apply.
Learning Objective: 3.3: Discuss the relationship between culture and mass media and the debate over mass culture and violence.
Cognitive Domain: Application
Answer Location: Culture and Mass Media
Difficulty Level: Hard
6. Discuss how music is a significant marketing tool in culture and mass media.
Learning Objective: 3.3: Discuss the relationship between culture and mass media and the debate over mass culture and violence.
Cognitive Domain: Application
Answer Location: Culture and Mass Media
Difficulty Level: Hard
7. Provide a definition of cultural capital and discuss its role in social class reproduction.
Learning Objective: 3.4: Explain how sociologists theorize the relationship between culture and social class.
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: Culture, Class, and Inequality
Difficulty Level: Medium
8. Explain the concept of habitus in the context of the relationship between agency and structure.
Learning Objective: 3.4: Explain how sociologists theorize the relationship between culture and social class.
Cognitive Domain: Application
Answer Location: Culture, Class, and Inequality
Difficulty Level: Hard
9. How does the United States influence global culture?
Learning Objective: 3.5: Apply functionalist and conflict perspectives to the phenomenon of global culture.
Cognitive Domain: Analysis
Answer Location: Culture and Globalization
Difficulty Level: Medium
10. What is the difference between grobalization and glocalization?
Learning Objective: 3.5: Apply functionalist and conflict perspectives to the phenomenon of global culture.
Cognitive Domain: Analysis
Answer Location: Culture and Globalization
Difficulty Level: Medium
Essay
1. Why are gangs considered a counterculture? How are they different from subcultures and the dominant culture?
Learning Objective: 3.1: Define the component parts of culture, including beliefs, values, norms, and taboos.
Cognitive Domain: Analysis
Answer Location: Subcultures
Difficulty Level: Medium
2. Define values and ethnocentrism. Discuss how American values are ethnocentric.
Learning Objective: 3.1: Define the component parts of culture, including beliefs, values, norms, and taboos.
Cognitive Domain: Application
Answer Location: Ethnocentrism
Difficulty Level: Hard
3. Only a small percentage of Americans consider themselves bilingual or able to hold a conversation in more than one language. Discuss the benefits of multilingualism, particularly in terms of multiculturalism.
Learning Objective: 3.2: Recognize the importance of language in representing and creating culture.
Cognitive Domain: Analysis
Answer Location: Language, Social Integration, and Social Conflict
Difficulty Level: Medium
4. Assess the potential benefits of fully embracing multiculturalism for the United States.
Learning Objective: 3.2: Recognize the importance of language in representing and creating culture.
Cognitive Domain: Analysis
Answer Location: Language, Social Integration, and Social Conflict
Difficulty Level: Medium
5. What is rape culture and how does it persist?
Learning Objective: 3.3: Discuss the relationship between culture and mass media and the debate over mass culture and violence.
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: Culture, Media, and Violence
Difficulty Level: Medium
6. Why do sociologists see mass media as paradoxical?
Learning Objective: 3.3: Discuss the relationship between culture and mass media and the debate over mass culture and violence.
Cognitive Domain: Analysis
Answer Location: Culture and Mass Media
Difficulty Level: Medium
7. One aspect of popular culture is the use of Botox and other fillers, as well as plastic surgery. Use a sociological perspective to explain the impact on the values and attitudes within society.
Learning Objective: 3.3: Discuss the relationship between culture and mass media and the debate over mass culture and violence.
Cognitive Domain: Analysis
Answer Location: Culture and Mass Media
Difficulty Level: Medium
8. Discuss how cultural capital can impact a college student’s ability to join a coveted organization such as a sorority.
Learning Objective: 3.4: Explain how sociologists theorize the relationship between culture and social class.
Cognitive Domain: Application
Answer Location: Culture, Class, and Inequality
Difficulty Level: Hard
9. Discuss how gender can impact social class reproduction.
Learning Objective: 3.4: Explain how sociologists theorize the relationship between culture and social class.
Cognitive Domain: Analysis
Answer Location: Culture, Class, and Inequality
Difficulty Level: Medium
10. Discuss the potential harm of globalization in the context of media.
Learning Objective: 3.5: Apply functionalist and conflict perspectives to the phenomenon of global culture.
Cognitive Domain: Analysis
Answer Location: Culture and Globalization
Difficulty Level: Medium
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