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IRSC Sociology Exam 2 Questions & Answers 2024/2025 cultural universals - ANSWERScustoms and practices that occur across all societies material culture - ANSWERSthe physical or tangible creations that members of a society make, use, and share non-material culture— - ANSWERSthe abstract or intangible human creations of society that influence people's behavior symbols - ANSWERSanything that meaningfully represents something else norms - ANSWERSestablished rules of behavior or ...

Ling exam questions & answers 2023-24 innateness theory - ANSWER-language ability is already known when born Linguistic universals - ANSWER-Basic features shared by all languages (noun, verb) Universal grammar - ANSWER-theoretically inborn set of structural characteristics shared by all languages Critical period - ANSWER-a period of time during which language must be acquired, or else it can never fully develop feral children - ANSWER-kids that grew up in the wild, maybe with an...

Basic Interpersonal Communication Skills Answer (BICS) Language skills and functions that allow students in school to communicate in everyday social contexts that are similar to those at home such as performing classroom chores, chatting with peers, consuming instructional media. BICS are context embedded b/c participants can provide feedback to one-another, the situation itself provides cues that further understanding and factors apart from linguistic code can furnish meaning. Takes 2+ years to...

Landmarks of Language Development Correct Answer - 6 weeks : cooing - 6 months : sitting up without support - 6-9 months: babbling (bababa - dadada - syllabic series of sounds) - 7 months : crawling (sitting up must come first) - 9months : jargon (inflected syllable play - sounds like real speech - dabadetootee - like a melody) - 9-18 months : first words - 12 months : typically first words - 12 months : first steps - 18 months : begins putting two words together - 18 months: 50 wor...

Discontinuity or Stage Theories (types of theories) - -Development progresses through a series of stages -Each stage involves a specific task -Once task is achieved, individual moves to next stage -Changes are qualitative Continuity Theory (type of theory) - -Development/change is a matter of small steps -Change is NOT qualitative Universality theorists believe... - there are universals to development that occur across all cultures/time-periods Context-specific theorists believe... ...

List of some of the universal features that all languages share. 1. All languages have Structure: -all use a finite set of sounds or gestures that form an infinite # of possible sentences. -all have grammar: rules for forming words & sentences -all have similar grammatical categories such as nouns & verbs. -all have a way of referring to past time, the ability to negate, and ways to form questions & issue commands. -all have semantic universals (male, female) 2. All languages are Dynami...

Theatrical Conventions - Answer-Rules of conduct and understood communication codes of the theatre Universals of theatre (4) - Answer-1. Theatre is live- mistakes are possible, audience, reciprocity, energy is shared between actors and audience 2. Theatre is ephemeral- theatre always changes, it can't be repeated, recorded theatre (film) 3. Theatre is collaborative- working towards a common goal 4. Theatre is a synthesis of many arts- actors, sets, lighting, costumes, music, sound, directo...

Sociology Unit 2 Exam Questions and Correct Answers All groups create norms to enforce their cultural values. - ANSWER True ____ help(s) sociologists and anthropologists understand practices that seem strange or different from those of their own culture. - ANSWER Cultural relativism Social control is - ANSWER the enforcing of norms through either internal or external means. Mores are norms that do not have great moral significance attached to them. - A...

Theatrical Conventions Rules of conduct and understood communication codes of the theatre Universals of theatre (4) 1. Theatre is live- mistakes are possible, audience, reciprocity, energy is shared between actors and audience 2. Theatre is ephemeral- theatre always changes, it can't be repeated, recorded theatre (film) 3. Theatre is collaborative- working towards a common goal 4. Theatre is a synthesis of many arts- actors, sets, lighting, costumes, music, sound, director "Magic if" ...

Multiple Choice 1. Events following the death of Aristotle created a situation in which people sought: a. b. c. d. ANSWER: DIFFICULTY: REFERENCES: 2. The main target of skepticism was dogmatism. A dogmatist is anyone who: ANSWER: DIFFICULTY: REFERENCES: d conceptual After Aristotle d factual After Aristotle 5. What did a. b. c. d. ANSWER: DIFFICULTY: REFERENCES: answers to questions concerning problems of everyday living the first principles or universals that underlie physical rea...