Which statement correctly describes values?
Correct answer C. Are general and abstract and do not explicitly specify which behaviours are acceptable and which are not
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What has cross-cultural research on infant care found?
Correct answer A. Methods of caring for babies are linked to other elements of a society's culture
Amjad must finish a work report due the next day. His son’s school calls to say the child is ill and must be collected, and Amjad’s wife is away on business. What is Amjad experiencing?
Correct answer D. Role conflict
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What are laws?
Correct answer A. Rules that are enforced by a special political organisation composed of individuals who enjoy the right to use force
Which of these is a defining characteristic of a society?
Correct answer B. Members of a society comprise a more or less self-sufficient social unit
Which feature listed below is NOT typical of a post-industrial society?
Correct answer A. Economic self-sufficiency is displaced by complex divisions of labour exchange relationships and national and international market systems
Identifying a new moon of Saturn was an act of what?
Correct answer D. Discovery
Older people in sheltered housing, offshore oil rig workers, rodeo cowboys and circus performers are all examples of what sociologists call what?
Correct answer C. Subcultures
Which sociologist coined the term ethnocentrism?
Correct answer C. William Graham Sumner
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In a sense, xenocentrism is the reverse of what?
Correct answer B. Ethnocentrism
What are values, traditions and beliefs examples of?
Correct answer A. Non-material culture
What can using language to label people lead to?
Correct answer D. Self-fulfilling prophecy
How does conflict theory view the use of humour?
Correct answer C. Political tool
Bringing music and films into Canada from another country is a good example of which type of diffusion?
Correct answer B. Indirect
Which sociological theory stresses the role of language and literacy in resisting cultural subordination?
Correct answer B. Conflict
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Which of these would not be a good example of a counterculture?
Correct answer E. Toronto Raptors fans
According to sociologists, what has shaped Canadian culture?
Correct answer E. Immigration
What are dignity, personal integrity and the inviolability of body and mind examples of?
Correct answer C. Human rights
What is the process by which cultural elements become closely linked and mutually dependent called?
Correct answer B. Cultural integration
Which theory holds that unique customs develop and persist because they are adaptive?
Correct answer B. Functionalism