FREE AND STUDY GAMES ABOUT SOCIOLOGY CH 34

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Question 1: Standardizes the goods and services demanded by consumers.

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Culture Industry Question 2: describes the set of cultural beliefs and practices that helps maintain powerful social, economic, and political interests

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dominant ideology Question 3: gestures, objects, and words that form the basis of human communication

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symbols Question 4: results when existing cultural items are combined into a form that did not exist before

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invention

Question 5: refers to ways of using material objects, as well as to customs, beliefs, philosophies, governments, and patterns of communication

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nonmaterial culture Question 6: Viewing peoples behavior from the perspective of their own culture. It places a priority on understanding other cultures, rather then dismissing them

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cultural relativism Question 7: anyone who feels disoriented, uncertain, out of place, or fearful when immersed in an unfamiliar culture may be expecting...

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culture shock

Question 8: systematic study of how biology affects human social behavior

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sociobiology Question 9: refers to the use of two or more languages in a particular setting, such as schoolroom, workplace, treating each language as equally legitimate

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Bilingualism

Question 10: norms governing everyday behavior

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folkways Question 11: have been written down and specify strict punishments for violators

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formal norms

Question 12: polarization of society over controversial cultural elements

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culture war

Question 13: penalties and rewards for conduct concerning a social norm

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sanctions Question 14: when a subculture conspicuously opposes certain aspects of the larger culture

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counterculture Question 15: a segment of society that shares a distinctive pattern or mores, folkways, and values that differs from the pattern of the larger society.

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subculture Question 16: refer to the tendency to assume that ones own culture and ways of life represent the norm or are superior to all others.

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Ethnocentrism Question 17: an abstract system of word meanings and symbols for all aspects of culture

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language

Question 18: All societies have developed certain common practices and beliefs.

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Cultural Universals Question 19: refers to the process by which a cultural item spreads from group to group or society to society

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diffusion Question 20: collective conceptions of what is considered good, desirable, and proper- or bad, undesirable, and improper- in a culture

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values

Question 21: norms deemed highly necessary to the welfare of a society, often because they embody the most cherished principles of a people

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mores

Question 22: The process of introducing a new idea or object to a culture

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innovation

Question 23: the established standards of behavior maintained by a society

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norms Question 24: refers to the period of maladjustment when the nonmaterial culture is struggling to adapt to new material conditions

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culture lag Question 25: What is the totality of learned, socially transmitted customs, knowledge, material objects, and behavior?

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Culture Question 26: invloves making known or sharing the existence of an aspect of reality

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discovery Question 27: refers to the physical or technological aspects of our daily lives, including food, houses, factories, and raw materials

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material culture Question 28: "cultural information about how to use the material resources of the environment to satisfy human needs and desires"

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technology