SOCIOLOGY 201 MIDTERM 2 DUMAS UPDATED QUESTIONS AND CORRECT ANSWERS

SOCIOLOGY 201 MIDTERM 2 DUMAS UPDATED
QUESTIONS AND CORRECT ANSWERS

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1. culture
Answer:
the relationship between individuals and society shared customs, morals, values, knowledge, language and
material objects passed down over time to help us deal with real life problems distinguishes us from
animals

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2. non-material culture
Answer:
the values, beliefs and traditions

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3. material culture
Answer:
tangible artifacts and physical objects

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4. features of culture
Answer:
learned, shared, transmitted, cumulative, human

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5. How culture survives: Cooperation
Answer:
the ability to construct social norms and laws

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6. How culture survives: Abstraction
Answer:
the ability to use symbols such as language

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7. Building blocks of Culture: Norms
Answer:
specification of appropriate behaviour

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8. Building blocks of Culture: Laws
Answer:
codified norms

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9. Building blocks of Culture: Sanctions
Answer:
Rewards and punishments

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10. Building blocks of Culture: Values
Answer:
general beliefs of right and wrong

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11. Sunmer Norms: Folkway
Answer:
customary behaviour. Ex. opening the door for someone, taking hat off at the dinner table

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12. Sunmer Norms: Mores
Answer:
carry serious moral condemnation. Ex. cheating on spouse, incest, stealing, nudity in public

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13. cultural relativism
Answer:
assumes every culture has intrinsic worth

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14. Ethnocentrism
Answer:
the belief that one's own group or culture is superior to all other groups or cultures

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15. Rationalism
Answer:
mcdonaldization (george ritzer) adopting characteristics of fast food places, lose family aspects like having
a meal together

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16. Consumerism
Answer:
the nag factor

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17. Cultural Freedom