LSU sociology 2001 Exam With 100%
Correct Answers
Society - correct answers ✔✔A group of interacting persons who live in a specific geographical
area, who are organized in a cooperative manner and who share a common culture
Culture - correct answers ✔✔a system of ideas, values, beliefs, knowledge, norms customs and
technology shared by almost everyone in a particular society
High culture - correct answers ✔✔reflects the taste of wealthy, affluent and upper class people.
Ex: opera, Mozart
Fulk culture - correct answers ✔✔reflects the taste of the working class and the ethnic groups.
Ex: craft fairs, jazz festivals
Popular culture - correct answers ✔✔music, art, dance, radio, linguistic trends, literature that
produced and consumed by members of lower and middle classes
Ex: soap operas, wrestling matches
Material culture - correct answers ✔✔house, clothes, tools, etc.
Non-material culture - correct answers ✔✔ideas, values, languages, etc.
material culture + non-material culture= - correct answers ✔✔culture
, Culture elements - correct answers ✔✔Ideas, values, knowledge, norms, customs, and
technology-cultural elements
Symbols - correct answers ✔✔this is something that is used to represent something else
collective creations - correct answers ✔✔society makes meaning of the symbol
Arbitrary designation - correct answers ✔✔something determined by judgment and not for any
specific rule or reason.
Most important set of symbols? - correct answers ✔✔language
Spoken language - correct answers ✔✔universal (children can pick up from exposure even if not
taught)
Written language - correct answers ✔✔not universal (must be taught to children)
Linguistics symbols (ABC's) - correct answers ✔✔learned and shared like other cultural
elements
Proto-Saharan (5000-3000 B.C.) - correct answers ✔✔Dr. Clyde Winters, author of The Ancient
Black Civilizations of Asia, wrote that before the rise of the Egyptians and Sumerians there was a
wonderful civilization in the fertile African Sahara, where people developed perhaps the world's
oldest known form of writing
culture creates: - correct answers ✔✔verbal language, written language, non-verbal language of
gesture
Ex: eye contact (eastern vs. western; Eastern: when talking to elder if you make eye contact it is
a bad manner, disrespecting them)
Correct Answers
Society - correct answers ✔✔A group of interacting persons who live in a specific geographical
area, who are organized in a cooperative manner and who share a common culture
Culture - correct answers ✔✔a system of ideas, values, beliefs, knowledge, norms customs and
technology shared by almost everyone in a particular society
High culture - correct answers ✔✔reflects the taste of wealthy, affluent and upper class people.
Ex: opera, Mozart
Fulk culture - correct answers ✔✔reflects the taste of the working class and the ethnic groups.
Ex: craft fairs, jazz festivals
Popular culture - correct answers ✔✔music, art, dance, radio, linguistic trends, literature that
produced and consumed by members of lower and middle classes
Ex: soap operas, wrestling matches
Material culture - correct answers ✔✔house, clothes, tools, etc.
Non-material culture - correct answers ✔✔ideas, values, languages, etc.
material culture + non-material culture= - correct answers ✔✔culture
, Culture elements - correct answers ✔✔Ideas, values, knowledge, norms, customs, and
technology-cultural elements
Symbols - correct answers ✔✔this is something that is used to represent something else
collective creations - correct answers ✔✔society makes meaning of the symbol
Arbitrary designation - correct answers ✔✔something determined by judgment and not for any
specific rule or reason.
Most important set of symbols? - correct answers ✔✔language
Spoken language - correct answers ✔✔universal (children can pick up from exposure even if not
taught)
Written language - correct answers ✔✔not universal (must be taught to children)
Linguistics symbols (ABC's) - correct answers ✔✔learned and shared like other cultural
elements
Proto-Saharan (5000-3000 B.C.) - correct answers ✔✔Dr. Clyde Winters, author of The Ancient
Black Civilizations of Asia, wrote that before the rise of the Egyptians and Sumerians there was a
wonderful civilization in the fertile African Sahara, where people developed perhaps the world's
oldest known form of writing
culture creates: - correct answers ✔✔verbal language, written language, non-verbal language of
gesture
Ex: eye contact (eastern vs. western; Eastern: when talking to elder if you make eye contact it is
a bad manner, disrespecting them)
