Sociology & You

Chapter 3: Culture

Self-Check Quizzes

1
Innate, or unlearned, patterns of behavior are called __________.
A)reflexes
B)drives
C)instincts
D)heredity
2
__________ are rules that cover customary ways of thinking, feeling, and behaving but lack moral overtones.
A)Folkways
B)Values
C)Mores
D)Taboos
3
__________ are rewards and punishments used to encourage people to follow norms.
A)Folkways
B)Sanctions
C)Mores
D)Cultural universals
4
__________ are broad ideas shared by people in a society about what is good or desirable.
A)Values
B)Norms
C)Folkways
D)Mores
5
__________ culture consists of the concrete, tangible objects within a culture, such as automobiles, chairs, and art.
A)Ideal
B)Real
C)Nonmaterial
D)Material
6
Real culture is __________.
A)cultural guidelines that group members claim to accept
B)actual behavior patterns of members of a group
C)ideas, knowledge, and beliefs that influence people’s behavior
D)the concrete, tangible objects of a culture
7
Which of the following is NOT a reason why cultures change?
A)discovery
B)invention
C)filtration
D)diffusion
8
Judging others in terms of one's own standards is called __________.
A)discrimination
B)a formal sanction
C)ethnocentrism
D)sociobiology
9
A __________ is a group that is part of the dominant culture but that differs from it in some important respects.
A)subculture
B)counterculture
C)real culture
D)ideal culture
10
General cultural traits that exist in all cultures are called __________.
A)cultural particulars
B)subcultures
C)countercultures
D)cultural universals
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