Chapter 4: Recognizing Culture

Test Bank

Multiple Choice

1. A group or society’s way of life, including characteristics that make it different from other groups or societies, refers to ______.

a. ethnographic attributes

b. social constructs

c. culture

d. religion

Learning Objective: 4.1: What is culture?

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Defining Culture

Difficulty Level: Easy

2. A foreign exchange student is placed with a family in Paris. While attending school in France, she learns about Parisian history, language, norms, and values. What is occurring?

a. She is adopting a new religion.

b. She is utilizing social media.

c. She is researching historical data.

d. She is experiencing culture.

Learning Objective: 4.1: What is culture?

Cognitive Domain: Application

Answer Location: Defining Culture

Difficulty Level: Easy

3. Material culture includes aspects such as ______.

a. language

b. fashion

c. values

d. symbols

Learning Objective: 4.1: What is culture?

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Defining Culture

Difficulty Level: Medium

4. Tara is studying the inhabitants of a Pacific island. She is particularly interested in the norms, values, and beliefs of this area. Tara is studying ______.

a. material culture

b. nonmaterial culture

c. patterns of behavior

d. cultural symbols

Learning Objective: 4.1: What is culture?

Cognitive Domain: Application

Answer Location: Defining Culture

Difficulty Level: Medium

5. How do flat-screen TVs relate to culture?

a. They are a non-material aspect of a society.

b. They exemplify non-material technology of a society.

c. They reflect the values of a material culture.

d. They express the language of a material culture.

Learning Objective: 4.1: What is culture?

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Defining Culture

Difficulty Level: Medium

6. A group of close friends have devised their own set of hand signals to communicate with each other without anyone else understanding. How would sociologists explain this?

a. The group is using material culture to create a new set of symbols.

b. The group is communicating with socially constructed meanings.

c. The group has developed its own access to resources.

d. The group is providing a sense of belonging to each other.

Learning Objective: 4.1: What is culture?

Cognitive Domain: Application

Answer Location: Constructing Culture

Difficulty Level: Hard

7. Which statement about culture is TRUE?

a. It is socially constructed.

b. There is a lack of tradition.

c. It is always inherited.

d. There is a lack of uniqueness.

Learning Objective: 4.1: What is culture?

Cognitive Domain: Analysis

Answer Location: Constructing Culture

Difficulty Level: Medium

8. Expectations about the appropriate thoughts, feelings, and behaviors of people in a variety of situations are called ______.

a. values

b. symbols

c. norms

d. culture

Learning Objective: 4.2: What are some ways that the different elements of culture influence everyday life?

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Social Norms

Difficulty Level: Easy

9. While at a restaurant, a female server must smile at all customers in order to appear friendly and approachable, even if she is not in the mood to do so. This is an example of a societal ______.

a. exception

b. rule

c. norm

d. anomaly

Learning Objective: 4.2: What are some ways that the different elements of culture influence everyday life?

Cognitive Domain: Application

Answer Location: Social Norms

Difficulty Level: Medium

10. When a person uses an expression such as, “Everyone loves ice cream!” that individual is demonstrating the concept of ______.

a. dissonance

b. generalized other

c. stereotyping

d. social norming

Learning Objective: 4.2: What are some ways that the different elements of culture influence everyday life?

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Social Norms

Difficulty Level: Medium

11. What is the term for the ability to act and think free from wider society’s social constraints?

a. discourse

b. constraint

c. power

d. agency

Learning Objective: 4.2: What are some ways that the different elements of culture influence everyday life?

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Social Norms

Difficulty Level: Easy

12. If a person is caught stealing from a store, this person has broken one of societies ______.

a. mores

b. taboos

c. symbols

d. structures

Learning Objective: 4.2: What are some ways that the different elements of culture influence everyday life?

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Social Norms

Difficulty Level: Medium

13. What is transmitted when children are taught to look someone in the eyes when speaking to them?

a. roles

b. mores

c. folkways

d. symbols

Learning Objective: 4.2: What are some ways that the different elements of culture influence everyday life?

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Social Norms

Difficulty Level: Medium

14. A teenager talks with her parents about which college would be the best for her to attend. Her parents argue that she should attend a local college in order to save money by living at home, while she believes that she needs to learn how to take care of herself while attending an out-of-state college. The teenager is exhibiting ______.

a. social identity

b. social intelligence

c. subculture

d. agency

Learning Objective: 4.2: What are some ways that the different elements of culture influence everyday life?

Cognitive Domain: Application

Answer Location: Social Norms

Difficulty Level: Hard

15. Most shoppers look for the end of the line to wait to pay for their items. How do they arrive at this behavior?

a. They are fearful of breaking the law.

b. They are directed by the people who work in the store.

c. They follow other people and ask them what they should do.

d. They exercise the social norms they have learned about shopping.

Learning Objective: 4.2: What are some ways that the different elements of culture influence everyday life?

Cognitive Domain: Application

Answer Location: Social Norms

Difficulty Level: Medium

16. A group attends a football game and sits on the side of the stadium reserved for fans of the home team. When the referee makes a call against the home team, they all look at each other and shake their heads, assuming they all feel the same about the call. How would a sociologist explain these assumptions?

a. The fans are acting based on a sense of communal agency that requires them to band together.

b. The fans understand that most people sitting on that side of the stadium share the same opinions based on the generalized other.

c. The fans have developed their own set of values that everyone on that side of the stadium must follow.

d. The fans must follow the mores of behavior for a typical football game.

Learning Objective: 4.2: What are some ways that the different elements of culture influence everyday life?

Cognitive Domain: Application

Answer Location: Social Norms

Difficulty Level: Hard

17. In the United States, when a man occupies a high paying job, his ______ provides him with a feeling of power and respect.

a. status

b. role

c. value

d. belief

Learning Objective: 4.2: What are some ways that the different elements of culture influence everyday life?

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Status and Roles

Difficulty Level: Medium

18. Which situation best describes what a role is in society?

a. a gendered performance based on opportunity

b. the lack of power based on the increasing poverty of middle class workers

c. the type of job someone has and how much money they receive for it

d. a socially expected behavior usually determined by an individual’s status

Learning Objective: 4.2: What are some ways that the different elements of culture influence everyday life?

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Status and Roles

Difficulty Level: Medium

19. When society deems hard work and honesty as an attribute, they are assigning a(n) ______ to those categories of behavior.

a. achievement

b. belief

c. value

d. behavior

Learning Objective: 4.2: What are some ways that the different elements of culture influence everyday life?

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Values and Beliefs

Difficulty Level: Easy

20. What is an important element of culture?

a. population density

b. beliefs

c. geographic location

d. laws

Learning Objective: 4.2: What are some ways that the different elements of culture influence everyday life?

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Values and Beliefs

Difficulty Level: Easy

21. A belief is defined as ______.

a. a thought or suggestion that society deems important

b. accepting that something is true

c. a thought or suggestion that society rejects as absolute

d. accepting that something is true only when those in power say it is

Learning Objective: 4.2: What are some ways that the different elements of culture influence everyday life?

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Values and Beliefs

Difficulty Level: Easy

22. The most obvious mechanism for transmitting beliefs is through ______.

a. the media

b. political activity

c. trial and error

d. observation and reinforcement

Learning Objective: 4.2: What are some ways that the different elements of culture influence everyday life?

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Values and Beliefs

Difficulty Level: Medium

23. According to sociologist Robin Williams, which of these is least likely to be considered an American value?

a. individualism

b. activity and work

c. cooperation and sharing

d. progress and material comfort

Learning Objective: 4.2: What are some ways that the different elements of culture influence everyday life?

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Values and Beliefs

Difficulty Level: Medium

24. Marta and Christine agree that holding your palm up in front of a person to tell them to stop talking is acceptable. This makes the gesture ______.

a. a symbol

b. an interaction

c. an idea

d. a more

Learning Objective: 4.2: What are some ways that the different elements of culture influence everyday life?

Cognitive Domain: Application

Answer Location: Symbols and Language

Difficulty Level: Medium

25. People in the United States often fly the national flag as a(n) ______ of their patriotism.

a. idea

b. symbol

c. expectation

d. justification

Learning Objective: 4.2: What are some ways that the different elements of culture influence everyday life?

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Symbols and Language

Difficulty Level: Easy

26. In the United States, giving someone a thumbs up is a positive sign, but in Iraq it has an entirely different meaning. This demonstrates ______.

a. how each culture creates its own symbols

b. how the sign has been usurped to insult Americans

c. how Americans don't understand the signs they use

d. how signs are universal

Learning Objective: 4.2: What are some ways that the different elements of culture influence everyday life?

Cognitive Domain: Application

Answer Location: Symbols and Language

Difficulty Level: Medium

27. A series of symbols people use to communicate meaning is called ______.

a. an idea

b. language

c. a belief

d. a culture

Learning Objective: 4.2: What are some ways that the different elements of culture influence everyday life?

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Symbols and Language

Difficulty Level: Easy

28. Patriotic music, fireworks, and picnics represent Independence Day in the United States. These are examples of ______.

a. symbols

b. norms

c. beliefs

d. folkways

Learning Objective: 4.2: What are some ways that the different elements of culture influence everyday life?

Cognitive Domain: Application

Answer Location: Symbols and Language

Difficulty Level: Medium

29. Which statement is the best description of the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis?

a. The representation of culture has a linguistic structure.

b. Language influences our understanding of reality.

c. The fewer words a culture uses, the better it is able to communicate.

d. Culture is the framework of meaning, language is the personification of it.

Learning Objective: 4.2: What are some ways that the different elements of culture influence everyday life?

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Symbols and Language

Difficulty Level: Medium

30. The Sapir-Whorf hypothesis is also known as ______.

a. culture of technology

b. linguistic relativism

c. cultural ideology

d. communication symbolism

Learning Objective: 4.2: What are some ways that the different elements of culture influence everyday life?

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Symbols and Language

Difficulty Level: Easy

31. A sociologist uses terms like “feminism,” “doing gender,” and “functionalism” to describe different aspects of society. People who are not sociologists might have trouble understanding these terms. How would the Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis explain this?

a. Language is learned automatically as an individual is exposed to it.

b. Sociologists use specific words to describe sociological concepts.

c. Language is based on the environment someone is in and does not change.

d. Sociologists have common symbols that they do not share with others.

Learning Objective: 4.2: What are some ways that the different elements of culture influence everyday life?

Cognitive Domain: Analysis

Answer Location: Symbols and Language

Difficulty Level: Medium

32. Sociologist Gerhard Lenski argued that ______ is what leads to different types of societies over time.

a. capital

b. religion

c. people

d. technology

Learning Objective: 4.2: What are some ways that the different elements of culture influence everyday life?

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Typology of Societies

Difficulty Level: Easy

33. A society that is viewed as pre-society because its members move around to find food is ______.

a. hunter-gatherer

b. pastoral

c. industrial

d. agricultural

Learning Objective: 4.3: How do societal types relate to variations in culture?

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Hunter-Gatherers

Difficulty Level: Easy

34. A person whose subsistence comes largely from foraging plants and eating animals would live in what type of society?

a. hunter-gatherer

b. pastoral

c. industrial

d. agricultural

Learning Objective: 4.3: How do societal types relate to variations in culture?

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Hunter-Gatherers

Difficulty Level: Easy

35. The development of hand tools and the domestication of animals were the precursor to ______ societies.

a. hunter-gatherer

b. horticultural/pastoral

c. agrarian

d. industrial

Learning Objective: 4.3: How do societal types relate to variations in culture?

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Horticultural/Pastoral Societies

Difficulty Level: Easy

36. How does the ability to grow food and raise animals for food impact the stability of a society?

a. The society is too busy working in the fields to create cultural artifacts.

b. The members of the society are able to build homes and care for their families.

c. The roles and norms of the society center around survival.

d. The society is less able to utilize technological developments.

Learning Objective: 4.3: How do societal types relate to variations in culture?

Cognitive Domain: Analysis

Answer Location: Horticultural/Pastoral Societies

Difficulty Level: Hard

37. Cultures in horticultural/pastoral societies are most likely to focus on ______ .

a. the community and survival

b. material and nonmaterial goods

c. personal development

d. technology

Learning Objective: 4.3: How do societal types relate to variations in culture?

Cognitive Domain: Analysis

Answer Location: Horticultural/Pastoral Societies

Difficulty Level: Medium

38. Hortense's family has advanced tools for raising crops, resulting in more food than they can consume. The extra food is sold or traded for material goods. Hortense lives in a(n) ______ society.

a. horticultural

b. industrial

c. agrarian

d. modern

Learning Objective: 4.3: How do societal types relate to variations in culture?

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Agrarian Societies

Difficulty Level: Medium

39. Culture for elite groups of people are called ______ cultures and ______ cultures are those that exist among the common people.

a. fixed; low

b. low; fixed

c. high; popular

d. popular; high

Learning Objective: 4.3: How do societal types relate to variations in culture?

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Agrarian Societies

Difficulty Level: Medium

40. How would consumers of popular culture most likely spend their days?

a. managing a large business

b. traveling around the world

c. reading a book

d. working in a factory

Learning Objective: 4.3: How do societal types relate to variations in culture?

Cognitive Domain: Analysis

Answer Location: Agrarian Societies

Difficulty Level: Medium

41. To produce food and goods, an industrial society relies on the use of ______.

a. consumers

b. technology

c. hand tools

d. animals

Learning Objective: 4.3: How do societal types relate to variations in culture?

Cognitive Domain: Analysis

Answer Location: Industrial and Postindustrial Societies

Difficulty Level: Medium

42. How do changes in societal norms interact with the legal system?

a. Laws are written in order to change societal norms.

b. The norms of society remain constant, while laws change to reflect crime rates.

c. New laws occur regularly whether norms change or not.

d. Changes in laws are a reflection of changes in norms and values.

Learning Objective: 4.4: How do changes to our culture shape our behaviors and ways of viewing the world?

Cognitive Domain: Analysis

Answer Location: Considering Cultural Variations

Difficulty Level: Medium

43. A cultural group that exists within another, larger culture is a ______.

a. material culture

b. fixed culture

c. homogenous culture

d. subculture

Learning Objective: 4.4: How do changes to our culture shape our behaviors and ways of viewing the world?

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Subcultures and Multiculturalism

Difficulty Level: Easy

44. Shui lives in the Chinatown neighborhood of San Francisco. Her values and beliefs mostly reflect those of the people around her, but she also embraces American cultural values. Shui's cultural group is a ______.

a. material culture

b. primary culture

c. homogenous culture

d. subculture

Learning Objective: 4.4: How do changes to our culture shape our behaviors and ways of viewing the world?

Cognitive Domain: Application

Answer Location: Subcultures and Multiculturalism

Difficulty Level: Medium

45. The city of Chicago is a mixture of White, Black, asian, and Hispanic citizens, along with many others. This is an example of ______.

a. multiculturalism

b. subcultures

c. monocultures

d. nationalism

Learning Objective: 4.4: How do changes to our culture shape our behaviors and ways of viewing the world?

Cognitive Domain: Application

Answer Location: Subcultures and Multiculturalism

Difficulty Level: Medium

46. When a group in society expresses ideas, beliefs, values, and rules that conflict with larger society, these groups would be considered a ______.

a. counterculture

b. radical culture

c. subculture

d. high culture

Learning Objective: 4.4: How do changes to our culture shape our behaviors and ways of viewing the world?

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Subcultures and Multiculturalism

Difficulty Level: Easy

47. The Ku Klux Klan is an example of a ______.

a. radical culture

b. counterculture

c. main culture

d. low culture

Learning Objective: 4.4: How do changes to our culture shape our behaviors and ways of viewing the world?

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Subcultures and Multiculturalism

Difficulty Level: Easy

48. Sociologist Franz Boas popularized the concept “cultural relativism.” Which statement best describes this concept?

a. Based on sociological research, cultures can be ranked as good or bad.

b. No culture can be ranked as better or worse than another.

c. Societies that allow for countercultures are more tolerant.

d. Multicultural societies are better than homogenous cultures.

Learning Objective: 4.4: How do changes to our culture shape our behaviors and ways of viewing the world?

Cognitive Domain: Analysis

Answer Location: Cultural Relativism and Global Culture

Difficulty Level: Medium

49. What is an example of cultural capital?

a. social intelligence

b. transnationalism

c. money

d. education

Learning Objective: 4.4: How do changes to our culture shape our behaviors and ways of viewing the world?

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Cultural Capital and Social Intelligence

Difficulty Level: Medium

50. According to George Murdock, each country has a unique culture, but there are some cultural practices that exist in most or all societies. These are called ______.

a. subcultures

b. cultural universals

c. multiculturalism

d. high cultures

Learning Objective: 4.4: How do changes to our culture shape our behaviors and ways of viewing the world?

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Cultural Relativism and Global Culture

Difficulty Level: Easy

51. A student states that technological societies are better than agrarian societies. How would a sociologist respond based on cultural relativism?

a. Each society needs to be judged on its own merits rather than compared to each other.

b. As societies progress, they get typically improve and grow.

c. Technological societies are the most advanced societies that can exist.

d. Agrarian societies establish stronger cultural bonds and should be judged accordingly.

Learning Objective: 4.4: How do changes to our culture shape our behaviors and ways of viewing the world?

Cognitive Domain: Application

Answer Location: Cultural Relativism and Global Culture

Difficulty Level: Hard

52. According to Daniel Goleman, a person who can get along with others and understands social relationships exemplifies ______.

a. wealth

b. social intelligence

c. identity

d. cultural capital

Learning Objective: 4.5: In what ways can you use cultural capital to help both yourself and society?

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Social Intelligence

Difficulty Level: Medium

53. An individual who is able to accurately read the cues given off by others ______.

a. is developing a social identity.

b. is following a cultural universal.

c. has a high level of fiscal capital.

d. has a high level of social intelligence.

Learning Objective: 4.5: In what ways can you use cultural capital to help both yourself and society?

Cognitive Domain: Analysis

Answer Location: Social Intelligence

Difficulty Level: Medium

54. Social intelligence requires a high level of ______ capital to be able to understand cues in society, such as how to dress and what is acceptable appearance.

a. cultural

b. fiscal

c. social

d. personal

Learning Objective: 4.5: In what ways can you use cultural capital to help both yourself and society?

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Culture and Identity

Difficulty Level: Easy

55. Every person has a unique set of traits, roles, and statuses, which are known as ______.

a. personal traits

b. cultural traits

c. social identities

d. fixed identities

Learning Objective: 4.5: In what ways can you use cultural capital to help both yourself and society?

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Culture and Identity

Difficulty Level: Easy

True/False

1. Cell phones are part of material culture.

Learning Objective: 4.1: What is culture?

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Defining Culture

Difficulty Level: Medium

2. Culture is created through interactions among people.

Learning Objective: 4.1: What is culture?

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Constructing Culture

Difficulty Level: Easy

3. Norms are based on social expectations.

Learning Objective: 4.2: What are some ways that the different elements of culture influence everyday life?

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Social Norms

Difficulty Level: Easy

4. Mores refers to the ability to act independently of social constraints.

Learning Objective: 4.2: What are some ways that the different elements of culture influence everyday life?

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Social Norms

Difficulty Level: Easy

5. Henry said that the Patriots are the best football team of all time. This is a value.

Learning Objective: 4.2: What are some ways that the different elements of culture influence everyday life?

Cognitive Domain: Application

Answer Location: Social Norms

Difficulty Level: Medium

6. After a shooting at a high school, students protested at the state offices carrying signs that said, "NO MORE!" These signs are symbols.

Learning Objective: 4.2: What are some ways that the different elements of culture influence everyday life?

Cognitive Domain: Application

Answer Location: Symbols and Language

Difficulty Level: Medium

7. The Sapir-Whorf hypothesis posits that if you can't find the words to describe something, it may be because your culture doesn't have words for what is happening.

Learning Objective: 4.2: What are some ways that the different elements of culture influence everyday life?

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Symbols and Language

Difficulty Level: Medium

8. Hunter-gatherer societies are more likely to have intricate artifacts.

Learning Objective: 4.3: How do societal types relate to variations in culture?

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Hunter-Gatherers

Difficulty Level: Medium

9. High culture includes fine arts and foods.

Learning Objective: 4.3: How do societal types relate to variations in culture?

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Agrarian Societies

Difficulty Level: Medium

10. Historical events can impact a people’s cultural heritage even if they do not have a direct impact on all of the individuals in a given society.

Learning Objective: 4.4: How do changes to our culture shape our behaviors and ways of viewing the world?

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Considering Cultural Variations

Difficulty Level: Medium

1. Subcultures are groups that work against the main culture.

Learning Objective: 4.4: How do changes to our culture shape our behaviors and ways of viewing the world?

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Subcultures and Multiculturalism

Difficulty Level: Medium

2. Virtually all cultures have religious beliefs, rituals, and politics. As such, these represent the concept of cultural relativism.

Learning Objective: 4.4: How do changes to our culture shape our behaviors and ways of viewing the world?

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Cultural Relativism and Global Culture

Difficulty Level: Easy

3. People in multicultural societies respect differing cultures and honor their unique contributions to a larger, “umbrella” culture.

Learning Objective: 4.4: How do changes to our culture shape our behaviors and ways of viewing the world?

Cognitive Domain: Analysis

Answer Location: Subcultures and Multiculturalism

Difficulty Level: Medium

4. A college degree is an example of cultural capital.

Learning Objective: 4.5: In what ways can you use cultural capital to help both yourself and society?

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Cultural Capital and Social Intelligence

Difficulty Level: Medium

5. Social intelligence is the ability to understand social relationships and act accordingly.

Learning Objective: 4.5: In what ways can you use cultural capital to help both yourself and society?

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Social intelligence

Difficulty Level: Medium

Short Answer

1. Discuss how culture is socially constructed.

Learning Objective: 4.1: What is culture?

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Constructing Culture

Difficulty Level: Medium

2. Explain the relationship between norms and expectations.

Learning Objective: 4.2: What are some ways that the different elements of culture influence everyday life?

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Social Norms

Difficulty Level: Medium

3. Differentiate between mores and folkways.

Learning Objective: 4.2: What are some ways that the different elements of culture influence everyday life?

Cognitive Domain: Analysis

Answer Location: Social Norms

Difficulty Level: Hard

4. Why are hunter-gatherers thought of as indicators of a pre-society?

Learning Objective: 4.3: How do societal types relate to variations in culture?

Cognitive Domain: Analysis

Answer Location: Hunter-Gatherers

Difficulty Level: Medium

5. Give examples of cultural capital, and provide an example of how one of these can influence a person's place in society.

Learning Objective: 4.5: In what ways can you use cultural capital to help both yourself and society?

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Cultural Capital and Social Intelligence

Difficulty Level: Medium

Essay

1. Explain the difference between material and nonmaterial culture, with examples.

Learning Objective: 4.1: What is culture?

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Defining Culture

Difficulty Level: Medium

2. What are the characteristics of a subculture? Provide an example using high school as the culture.

Learning Objective: 4.4: How do changes to our culture shape our behaviors and ways of viewing the world?

Cognitive Domain: Application

Answer Location: Subcultures and Multiculturalism

Difficulty Level: Hard

3. Compare and contrast multiculturalism with counterculture. Provide examples of each in your descriptions.

Learning Objective: 4.4: How do changes to our culture shape our behaviors and ways of viewing the world?

Cognitive Domain: Application

Answer Location: Subcultures and Multiculturalism Research

Difficulty Level: Hard

4. Explain the relationship between cultural capital and fiscal capital.

Learning Objective: 4.5: In what ways can you use cultural capital to help both yourself and society?

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Cultural Capital and Social Intelligence

Difficulty Level: Medium

5. What are social identities and how do expectations influence them?

Learning Objective: 4.5: In what ways can you use cultural capital to help both yourself and society?

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Culture and Identity

Difficulty Level: Medium