SOCIOLOGY EXAM 6 COMPREHENSIVE
EXAM SCRIPT VERIFIED QUESTIONS
COMPLETE ANSWERS GRADED APLUS
◉ material Culture
Answer: material objects that distinguish a group of people (ex:
art, buildings, weapons, jewelry)
◉ Non-material culture
Answer: a group's way of thinking (Belief's, values, norms) and
doing (patterns of behavior; language)
◉ symbolic culture
Answer: non-material culture
◉ culture shock
Answer: the disorientation that people experience when they
come in contact with a fundamentally different culture
◉ ethnocentrism
Answer: the use of one's own culture as a yardstick for judging the
ways of other individuals or societies
◉ cultural relativism
, Answer: not judging a culture but trying understand it on its own
terms
◉ symbol
Answer: something to which people attach meaning and then use
to communicate with one another
◉ gestures
Answer: the ways in which people use their bodies to
communicate with one another
◉ language
Answer: a system of symbols that can be combined in an infinite
number of ways and can represent not only objects but also
abstract thought
◉ Sapir-Whorf hypothesis
Answer: Edward Sapir and Benjamin Whorf's hypothesis that
language creates ways of thinking and perceiving
◉ values
Answer: the standards by which people define what is desirable
or undesirable (good or bad)
◉ norms
EXAM SCRIPT VERIFIED QUESTIONS
COMPLETE ANSWERS GRADED APLUS
◉ material Culture
Answer: material objects that distinguish a group of people (ex:
art, buildings, weapons, jewelry)
◉ Non-material culture
Answer: a group's way of thinking (Belief's, values, norms) and
doing (patterns of behavior; language)
◉ symbolic culture
Answer: non-material culture
◉ culture shock
Answer: the disorientation that people experience when they
come in contact with a fundamentally different culture
◉ ethnocentrism
Answer: the use of one's own culture as a yardstick for judging the
ways of other individuals or societies
◉ cultural relativism
, Answer: not judging a culture but trying understand it on its own
terms
◉ symbol
Answer: something to which people attach meaning and then use
to communicate with one another
◉ gestures
Answer: the ways in which people use their bodies to
communicate with one another
◉ language
Answer: a system of symbols that can be combined in an infinite
number of ways and can represent not only objects but also
abstract thought
◉ Sapir-Whorf hypothesis
Answer: Edward Sapir and Benjamin Whorf's hypothesis that
language creates ways of thinking and perceiving
◉ values
Answer: the standards by which people define what is desirable
or undesirable (good or bad)
◉ norms
