What does non-material culture consist of?
Correct answer C. Customs, beliefs and ideas
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Is a prayer mat part of material or non-material culture?
Correct answer C. Material culture
In how many stages did Auguste Comte see cultural development unfolding?
Correct answer B. Three Stages
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What effect do extreme climatic conditions have on culture?
Correct answer C. Obstacle to cultural development
What does a statistical norm describe?
Correct answer B. What actually exists
When ideas of right and wrong are attached to folkways, what do they become?
Correct answer B. Mores
What is a combination of many cultural traits called?
Correct answer B. Complex
Which of the following are institutions of a society?
Correct answer C. Both a and b
What term describes the view that one’s own group is superior to others?
Correct answer C. Ethnocentrism
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When people are happy to pay more for imported goods, what does this show?
Correct answer A. Xenocentric Approach
Which statement about norms is correct?
Correct answer D. All of the above
Which perspective argues that a shared culture preserves the privileges of some groups while keeping others subordinate?
Correct answer C. Conflict perspective
On holiday in Great Britain, you find that the British drive on the ‘wrong’ side of the road, criticise your American accent and refuse dollars in shops. You feel disoriented and out of place. What are you experiencing?
Correct answer A. Culture shock
Which perspective holds that ethnocentrism maintains solidarity by encouraging pride in one’s group?
Correct answer C. Functionalist perspective
Roughly 2 million Native Americans represent many diverse cultures. By what can these cultures be distinguished?
Correct answer D. All of the above
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Social norms are:
Correct answer D. rules and expectations about interaction that regulate social life
What is the process by which cultural traits spread from one group or society to another called?
Correct answer C. Cultural diffusion
What is the psychological stress a person feels when facing rapid cultural change called?
Correct answer C. Culture shock
Who argued, when discussing scientific method, that social facts exist independently and must be studied as such?
Correct answer B. Emile Durkheim
What does ‘alteration’ describe as a state of affairs?
Correct answer D. None of these