Sociology Chapter 2 Quiz
This is for sociology class. Anyone is welcome to take this quiz anytime. :)
- 1.Beliefs, values, and other assumptions about the world are examples of:
- A.
Nonmaterial culture.
- B.
Non-normative components of society.
- C.
Normative components of society.
- D.
Material culture.
- 2.A tendency to use our own group's ways of doing things as a yardstick for judging others is called:
- A.
Ethnocentrism.
- B.
Eurocentrism.
- C.
Ethno-relativism.
- D.
Cultural relativism.
- 3.A type of written gestures that help convey the feelings that go with words are called:
- A.
Body cues.
- B.
Emoticons.
- C.
Latent messages.
- D.
Dysfunctional discourse.
- 4.The author of your course textbook claims that language facilitates all of the following, except:
- A.
Cumulative human experience
- B.
Identical experience of apes and other animals.
- C.
Shared past.
- D.
Shared perspective.
- 5.All of the following are true about the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis, except:
- A.
Their original assumptions were incorrect.
- B.
They studied the Hopi.
- C.
Their original assumptions were inaccurate.
- D.
Their hypothesis is still valid today.
- 6.The term cultural lag, which means that not all parts of a culture change at the same pace, was coined by sociologist ____________________.
- A.
Robert Merton
- B.
William Ogburn
- C.
Talcott Parsons
- D.
C. Wright Mills
- 7.The primary differing factor between tools and technology:
- A.
Can be equated to tools and the technology to use them.
- B.
Sets a framework for a group's nonmaterial culture.
- C.
Are minor modifications of existing technologies.
- D.
Has lead to workers compensation.
- 8.Which of the following groups is most likely to be classified as a counterculture?
- A.
Members of the NAACP
- B.
A group of survivalists living in Montana
- C.
A group of New York cab drivers
- D.
A group of students belonging to the Middle Eastern Student Association
- 9.When we either follow or break norms, we see _____ in people's reactions.
- A.
Deviations
- B.
Norms
- C.
Values
- D.
Sanctions
- 10.According to the author, "one groups _____ may be another group's ______.
- A.
Gesture/folkway.
- B.
Folkways/mores
- C.
Law/taboo
- D.
Hero/villain.
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