Culture and Society (Exam 2) Questions
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Ethnicity means identification with... - correct answers✅✅a particular
cultural tradition and exclusion from other cultural traditions
An ascribed status is a status that... - correct answers✅✅people have
little or no choice about occupying
The cultural phenomenon, whereby a person's claimed or perceived identity
varies depending on context, is known as... - correct
answers✅✅Situational negotiation of social identity
Race, like ethnicity in general, is... - correct answers✅✅a cultural
category rather than a biological reality
Homo sapiens lacks such races because... - correct answers✅✅human
populations have not been isolated enough from one another to develop
such discrete groups
An organism's evident traits or its "manifest biology" is known as... - correct
answers✅✅Phenotype
An examination of racial taxonomies from around the world indicates that... -
correct answers✅✅the classification of racial types is an arbitrary and
culturally specific process
Traditional racial classification assumed that biological characteristics such
as skin color were determined by heredity and remain stable over many
generations. Today, we know that... - correct answers✅✅Skin color is
determined by sun exposure and the amount of melanin in our diets
, Culture and Society (Exam 2) Questions
and Answers A+ Rated
Which of the following statements about ethnicity is true? - correct
answers✅✅Ethnicity is one's identification with a group that shares a
common set of beliefs, values, customs, and norms
Which of the following statements about U.S. racial categories is true? -
correct answers✅✅They are culturally arbitrary, even though most
people assume them to be based in biology.
The arbitrary rule that the automatically places the children of a union
between members of different socioeconomic groups into the less-privileged
groups is known as rule of... - correct answers✅✅Hypodescent
In Japan, the burakumin... - correct answers✅✅are Japanese citizens of
mixed ancestry face discrimination.
Which of the following is a major difference between Brazilian and U.S. racial
taxonomies? - correct answers✅✅In the United States, social race is
determined at birth and does not change, but in Brazil race is flexible, and
more of an achieved status.
A culture that shares a single language, religion, history, territory, ancestry,
and kinship is called a... - correct answers✅✅Nation
A complex sociopolitical system that administers a territory and populace
having substantial contrasts in occupation, wealth, prestige, and power is
known as... - correct answers✅✅State
The process that incorporates a minority into the host (dominant) culture to
the point where it no longer exists as a separate cultural unit, is known as... -
correct answers✅✅Assimilation
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Ethnicity means identification with... - correct answers✅✅a particular
cultural tradition and exclusion from other cultural traditions
An ascribed status is a status that... - correct answers✅✅people have
little or no choice about occupying
The cultural phenomenon, whereby a person's claimed or perceived identity
varies depending on context, is known as... - correct
answers✅✅Situational negotiation of social identity
Race, like ethnicity in general, is... - correct answers✅✅a cultural
category rather than a biological reality
Homo sapiens lacks such races because... - correct answers✅✅human
populations have not been isolated enough from one another to develop
such discrete groups
An organism's evident traits or its "manifest biology" is known as... - correct
answers✅✅Phenotype
An examination of racial taxonomies from around the world indicates that... -
correct answers✅✅the classification of racial types is an arbitrary and
culturally specific process
Traditional racial classification assumed that biological characteristics such
as skin color were determined by heredity and remain stable over many
generations. Today, we know that... - correct answers✅✅Skin color is
determined by sun exposure and the amount of melanin in our diets
, Culture and Society (Exam 2) Questions
and Answers A+ Rated
Which of the following statements about ethnicity is true? - correct
answers✅✅Ethnicity is one's identification with a group that shares a
common set of beliefs, values, customs, and norms
Which of the following statements about U.S. racial categories is true? -
correct answers✅✅They are culturally arbitrary, even though most
people assume them to be based in biology.
The arbitrary rule that the automatically places the children of a union
between members of different socioeconomic groups into the less-privileged
groups is known as rule of... - correct answers✅✅Hypodescent
In Japan, the burakumin... - correct answers✅✅are Japanese citizens of
mixed ancestry face discrimination.
Which of the following is a major difference between Brazilian and U.S. racial
taxonomies? - correct answers✅✅In the United States, social race is
determined at birth and does not change, but in Brazil race is flexible, and
more of an achieved status.
A culture that shares a single language, religion, history, territory, ancestry,
and kinship is called a... - correct answers✅✅Nation
A complex sociopolitical system that administers a territory and populace
having substantial contrasts in occupation, wealth, prestige, and power is
known as... - correct answers✅✅State
The process that incorporates a minority into the host (dominant) culture to
the point where it no longer exists as a separate cultural unit, is known as... -
correct answers✅✅Assimilation
