IUPUI R100 Quiz 3

Military involvement in Korea dates back to:

The end of WWII (1945)

A _______can be described as the "way of life of a people"--more specifically, the human-created strategies for adjusting to their surroundings and to those creatures (including humans) that are part of those surroundings.

Culture

Which one of the following represents the BEST example of material culture?

Physical objects people have invented, such as a diamond ring

American sociologists studying Korean bath houses would be struck by the

Lack of self-consciousness regarding the body

Beliefs, values, and norms are a part of

Nonmaterial Culture

________are socially shared ideas about what is good, right, and desirable.

Values

Sociologist William Graham Sumner wrote that "______give us discipline and support of routine and habit;" if we were forced constantly to make decisions about these details, "the burden would be unbearable.

Folkways

An international guide to business recommends that executive traveling to South Korea wait for the eldest person at the table to begin eating before everyone begins. This advice represents a(n):

Folkway

Mores are defined as:

Norms that people define as essential to a group's well being

Which of the following is true with regard to "feeling rules":

hey specify appropriate ways to express internal sensations

The value underlying Korean use of "our" versus "my" is

The importance of the group

No two languages are ever sufficiently similar to be considered as representing the same social reality." This sentence applies to

The linguistic relativity hypothesis

A _______is a cultural component that elicits broad consensus of its importance among members of society:

Cultural Anchor

________is the strain that people from one culture experience when they must orient themselves to the ways of a new culture

Culture Shock

The tendency to hold your own culture as a standard against which other cultures are judged is

Enthocentlrism

The most extreme and most destructive form of ethnocentrism is

Cultural Genocide

An individual who adopts cultural relativism aims to _______a cultural practice.

Understand

________are groups that share in some parts of the dominant culture but have their own distinctive values, norms, beliefs, symbols, language, and material cultures.

Subcultures

In Korea, diners reach and stretch across one another and use their chopsticks to take food from serving bowls. These behaviors are

Norms

The newspaper headline "World's Top Donut Chains Roll into South Korea" suggests that _____is at work.

Transcultural Diffusion