SOCIOLOGY 101 UPDATED COMPREHENSIVE QUESTIONS
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✔✔This includes the language, beliefs, rules, behaviors, and physical artifacts of a
society - ✔✔Material Culture
✔✔Movies, art, and housing styles are examples of this. - ✔✔Material Culture
✔✔The interstate highway system is an example of this. - ✔✔Material Culture
✔✔This refers to the physical artifacts created and used by members of a society. -
✔✔Material Culture
✔✔This includes shared knowledge, beliefs, and interpretations of symbols, but not
physical objects. - ✔✔Nonmaterial Culture
✔✔Which of the following is a type of nonmaterial culture? - ✔✔Owners manual for a
social life, how to adapt to the culture
✔✔Which of the following is a type of material culture? - ✔✔Cars
✔✔Elements of cultures are increasingly being shared with other cultures through: -
✔✔Transitional media, global communication, transport systems and centuries of
immigration
✔✔This is a distinguishable group within a culture. - ✔✔Subculture
✔✔Which of the following is an example of a subculture? - ✔✔Racial and ethnic groups,
religion, age groups, and geographic areas
✔✔Sitting still, raising a hand for permission to speak, and coming to class on time are
___________ that govern classroom behavior in our culture. - ✔✔Cultural Expectations
✔✔These make our interactions with others reasonably predictable. - ✔✔Norms
✔✔The United States can be called a "heteronormative" culture. - ✔✔This means that
in this culture heteronormative is a norm.
✔✔The disinterment of corpses in Madagascar is an example of - ✔✔subculture
phenomenon in that culture.
✔✔When a pattern of behavior becomes widely accepted in a social institution and
becomes taken for granted in society, it is referred to as a(n): - ✔✔Institutionalized norm
, ✔✔_______ is/are informal rules that we follow. - ✔✔Folkways
✔✔These are formalized rules that we follow; frequently they are written into law. -
✔✔Mores
✔✔A woman at a supermarket cuts ahead of several other people in line at the
checkout counter. Her action invites annoyed looks and negative comments from the
other customers. Their reaction is an example of a: - ✔✔Folkway sanction
✔✔Examples of these include getting a ticket when you run a red light and getting an F
in a course for cheating. - ✔✔sanctions
✔✔Robbing a bank and killing a bank teller are examples of crime violations, and are
likely to be punished by - ✔✔relatively negative sanctions.
✔✔In American society, belching at the dinner table is a folkway violation and is likely to
be punished by - ✔✔relatively negative sanctions
✔✔The tendency to evaluate other cultures using the standards of one's own is referred
to as: - ✔✔ethnocentrism
✔✔For us to better understand the values and practices of another culture, we need to
practice: - ✔✔Cultural relativism
✔✔A ____ role is based on a widely understood set of rules about how people are
supposed to behave when they are ill or injured. - ✔✔Sick
✔✔_________ are individuals in whom physical sexual differentiation is either
incomplete or ambiguous. - ✔✔intersexuals
✔✔In traditional Navajo culture one is classified as one of three sexes: male, female, or:
- ✔✔male, female and nadle (hermaphrodite)
✔✔A characteristic that is typical of the whole population being studied is said to be: -
✔✔Representative
✔✔A subgroup chosen for a study because its characteristics approximate those of the
entire population is a(n): - ✔✔Sample
✔✔A testable prediction that specifies the relationship between two or more variables
is: - ✔✔Hypothesis
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✔✔This includes the language, beliefs, rules, behaviors, and physical artifacts of a
society - ✔✔Material Culture
✔✔Movies, art, and housing styles are examples of this. - ✔✔Material Culture
✔✔The interstate highway system is an example of this. - ✔✔Material Culture
✔✔This refers to the physical artifacts created and used by members of a society. -
✔✔Material Culture
✔✔This includes shared knowledge, beliefs, and interpretations of symbols, but not
physical objects. - ✔✔Nonmaterial Culture
✔✔Which of the following is a type of nonmaterial culture? - ✔✔Owners manual for a
social life, how to adapt to the culture
✔✔Which of the following is a type of material culture? - ✔✔Cars
✔✔Elements of cultures are increasingly being shared with other cultures through: -
✔✔Transitional media, global communication, transport systems and centuries of
immigration
✔✔This is a distinguishable group within a culture. - ✔✔Subculture
✔✔Which of the following is an example of a subculture? - ✔✔Racial and ethnic groups,
religion, age groups, and geographic areas
✔✔Sitting still, raising a hand for permission to speak, and coming to class on time are
___________ that govern classroom behavior in our culture. - ✔✔Cultural Expectations
✔✔These make our interactions with others reasonably predictable. - ✔✔Norms
✔✔The United States can be called a "heteronormative" culture. - ✔✔This means that
in this culture heteronormative is a norm.
✔✔The disinterment of corpses in Madagascar is an example of - ✔✔subculture
phenomenon in that culture.
✔✔When a pattern of behavior becomes widely accepted in a social institution and
becomes taken for granted in society, it is referred to as a(n): - ✔✔Institutionalized norm
, ✔✔_______ is/are informal rules that we follow. - ✔✔Folkways
✔✔These are formalized rules that we follow; frequently they are written into law. -
✔✔Mores
✔✔A woman at a supermarket cuts ahead of several other people in line at the
checkout counter. Her action invites annoyed looks and negative comments from the
other customers. Their reaction is an example of a: - ✔✔Folkway sanction
✔✔Examples of these include getting a ticket when you run a red light and getting an F
in a course for cheating. - ✔✔sanctions
✔✔Robbing a bank and killing a bank teller are examples of crime violations, and are
likely to be punished by - ✔✔relatively negative sanctions.
✔✔In American society, belching at the dinner table is a folkway violation and is likely to
be punished by - ✔✔relatively negative sanctions
✔✔The tendency to evaluate other cultures using the standards of one's own is referred
to as: - ✔✔ethnocentrism
✔✔For us to better understand the values and practices of another culture, we need to
practice: - ✔✔Cultural relativism
✔✔A ____ role is based on a widely understood set of rules about how people are
supposed to behave when they are ill or injured. - ✔✔Sick
✔✔_________ are individuals in whom physical sexual differentiation is either
incomplete or ambiguous. - ✔✔intersexuals
✔✔In traditional Navajo culture one is classified as one of three sexes: male, female, or:
- ✔✔male, female and nadle (hermaphrodite)
✔✔A characteristic that is typical of the whole population being studied is said to be: -
✔✔Representative
✔✔A subgroup chosen for a study because its characteristics approximate those of the
entire population is a(n): - ✔✔Sample
✔✔A testable prediction that specifies the relationship between two or more variables
is: - ✔✔Hypothesis
