SOC 202 STUDY QUESTIONS AND CORRECT
ANSWERS
Culture - ✔✔Beliefs, ideas, customs, behaviors and ways of living common to members of a
particular group. Including social traditions, products and sites (values, language, rules or tools)
High Culture - ✔✔Unique, refined, complex, meaningful, artistic practises and products
appealing to the intellect
FOR EXAMPLE: classical music, opera, ballet, live theater, and other activities usually patronized
by elite audiences
popular culture - ✔✔spectator sports, TV, popular music typically pursued by middle and
lower class
Material culture - ✔✔the physical things created by members of a society that shape their
lives
nonmaterial culture - ✔✔The beliefs, practices, aesthetics, and values of a group of people.
cultural transmission - ✔✔the process by which one generation passes culture to the next
Values - ✔✔the ideas, beliefs, and attitudes about what is important that help guide the way
you live
Norms - ✔✔rules and expectations by which a society guides the behavior of its members
Summer's typology of norms - ✔✔Folkways, Mores, Taboo, Laws
, Folkways - ✔✔norms that are not strictly enforced, ex. coming to class late
Mores - ✔✔strongly held norms, the violation of which seriously offends the standards of
acceptable conduct of most people within a particular culture, ex. coming to class naked
Taboo - ✔✔behavior that is forbidden and highly offensive, ex. rape, incest, murder
Laws - ✔✔expectations for behavior that have been put into law, ex. may include mores and
taboos
Ethnocentrism - ✔✔belief in the superiority of one's own ethnic group
Subcultures - ✔✔subgroups within the larger, or national, culture with unique values, ideas,
and attitudes, ex. amish - rejection of technology
Countercultures - ✔✔groups that reject and oppose society's widely accepted cultural
patterns, ex. young gang members?
Socialization - ✔✔Process people learn values, norms and roles of their culture
Nature vs. Nurture - ✔✔name for a controversy in which it is debated whether genetics or
environment is responsible for driving behavior
social construction of reality - ✔✔the use of background assumptions and life experiences to
define what is real
dramaturgical approach - ✔✔individuals create images of themselves in the same way that
actors perform a role in front of an audience, ex. front stage or back stage
ANSWERS
Culture - ✔✔Beliefs, ideas, customs, behaviors and ways of living common to members of a
particular group. Including social traditions, products and sites (values, language, rules or tools)
High Culture - ✔✔Unique, refined, complex, meaningful, artistic practises and products
appealing to the intellect
FOR EXAMPLE: classical music, opera, ballet, live theater, and other activities usually patronized
by elite audiences
popular culture - ✔✔spectator sports, TV, popular music typically pursued by middle and
lower class
Material culture - ✔✔the physical things created by members of a society that shape their
lives
nonmaterial culture - ✔✔The beliefs, practices, aesthetics, and values of a group of people.
cultural transmission - ✔✔the process by which one generation passes culture to the next
Values - ✔✔the ideas, beliefs, and attitudes about what is important that help guide the way
you live
Norms - ✔✔rules and expectations by which a society guides the behavior of its members
Summer's typology of norms - ✔✔Folkways, Mores, Taboo, Laws
, Folkways - ✔✔norms that are not strictly enforced, ex. coming to class late
Mores - ✔✔strongly held norms, the violation of which seriously offends the standards of
acceptable conduct of most people within a particular culture, ex. coming to class naked
Taboo - ✔✔behavior that is forbidden and highly offensive, ex. rape, incest, murder
Laws - ✔✔expectations for behavior that have been put into law, ex. may include mores and
taboos
Ethnocentrism - ✔✔belief in the superiority of one's own ethnic group
Subcultures - ✔✔subgroups within the larger, or national, culture with unique values, ideas,
and attitudes, ex. amish - rejection of technology
Countercultures - ✔✔groups that reject and oppose society's widely accepted cultural
patterns, ex. young gang members?
Socialization - ✔✔Process people learn values, norms and roles of their culture
Nature vs. Nurture - ✔✔name for a controversy in which it is debated whether genetics or
environment is responsible for driving behavior
social construction of reality - ✔✔the use of background assumptions and life experiences to
define what is real
dramaturgical approach - ✔✔individuals create images of themselves in the same way that
actors perform a role in front of an audience, ex. front stage or back stage
