What are songs, languages and orchestral performances examples of?
Correct answer B. Nonmaterial culture
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Which of these is NOT an example of an American folkway?
Correct answer B. The habit of driving on the right-hand side of the road
What are the patterned, recurring features of life found in every known society called?
Correct answer B. Cultural universals
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Which statement describes a subculture?
Correct answer C. Includes members of a group that participate in the main culture while sharing another culture
Praising your lecturer for an especially inspiring lecture comments on which aspect of their position?
Correct answer A. Role performance
Which statement about roles is FALSE?
Correct answer D. Roles define duties but only statuses define rights
People waiting at a bus stop are an example of what?
Correct answer A. Aggregate
Which statement describes horticultural societies?
Correct answer A. Experience the emergence of social stratification due to production of a social surplus
Which of these is an aspect of culture?
Correct answer D. All of the above
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Which sociologist distinguished between material and non-material culture?
Correct answer A. William F Ogburn
Which statement about values is correct?
Correct answer A. Values of a culture may change but most remain relatively stable during any one person's lifetime
Who argued that capitalist society has a dominant ideology serving the interests of the ruling class?
Correct answer D. Karl Marx
What are social institutions?
Correct answer D. None of these
An American on holiday in Great Britain finds that the British drive on the ‘wrong’ side of the road, criticise his accent and refuse dollars in shops. He feels disoriented and out of place. What is he experiencing?
Correct answer B. Culture shock
According to which sociological perspective does ethnocentrism maintain solidarity by fostering group pride?
Correct answer B. Functionalist perspective
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Which of the following was not listed as a defining feature of culture?
Correct answer D. Culture is symbolic
How is language usually regarded in relation to culture?
Correct answer B. A key cultural marker
Lakoff’s research identified distinct communication differences between men and women. What did it find men generally tend to do?
Correct answer C. Not appreciate or encourage self-disclosure as much
How is culture usually assumed to behave?
Correct answer A. Always changing
Through which processes can cultural change also take place?
Correct answer B. Invention and discovery