Sociology Culture(2) Test

Question 1

What term describes the way material and non-material objects combine to form a way of life?

Accepted Answer

Culture

Question 2

Which term means a group within a society with its own distinct identity.

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Subculture

Question 3

A group of people with a shared territory and culture

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Society

Question 4

Which of these is an invention from the last 20 years?

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Harry Potter, Vaccine for cervical cancer, Kickstarter, Self driving cars

Question 5

True or False: a subculture functions within a larger society

Accepted Answer

True

Question 6

Sharing of cultural information between groups for friendship and/or understanding

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Cultural Exchange

Question 7

How would you describe an event geared toward cultural understanding and community?

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Cultural Exchange

Question 8

When a new cultural element is formed from existing objects or concepts

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Invention

Question 9

Please identify an American counterculture

Accepted Answer

The KKK, Feminists, Hippies, Punks

Question 10

Which term refers to the increase of new cultural elements and the loss of existing ones?

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Transculturation

Question 11

When cultural elements blend together, and both cultures experience the change.

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Acculturation

Question 12

What term means an object or concept's first appearance in a society?

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Innovation

Question 13

Time between introduction of a material item and its acceptance in non-material culture

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Cultural Lag

Question 14

Process involving the economic, social, and political spheres across and within societies.

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Globalization

Question 15

Which is true of people who join cults? They are usually ...

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Tired of society

Question 16

What would an example of an invention outpacing cultural beliefs and values be illustrating?

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Cultural Lag

Question 17

When members of a dominant culture use the cultural elements of a marginalized group

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Cultural Appropriation

Question 18

What term describes a large-scale social movement that attempts to cause social change?

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Counterculture

Question 19

True or False: a counterculture is a type of subculture

Accepted Answer

True

Question 20

Please identify an American subculture.

Accepted Answer

Fans of The Voice, Hipsters, Asian Americans, Firemen

Question 21

Tendency to compare other cultures to one’s own, and automatically finding them inferior.

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Ethoncentrism

Question 22

Making known something that was previously unknown by a culture.

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Discovery

Question 23

The story of Peter Pan an example of:

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Invention

Question 24

True or False: a subculture is a type of counterculture

Accepted Answer

False

Question 25

Cult leaders often use methods of mind control including deception, ______ and dread.

Accepted Answer

Dependency

Question 26

True or False: countercultures function within a larger society.

Accepted Answer

True

Question 27

What term means the spread of culture from one society to another?

Accepted Answer

Diffusion

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