Arizona State University

SOCIOLOGY 201

Lesson #2 Quiz:

Q:1)Which of the following phrases is least descriptive of or related to the concept of culture?

 

 

Q:2

What are sociologists referring to when they address the culture within us?

 

Q:3

Which set of concepts does not illustrate material culture?

 

Q:4

What sociological concept explains why natives in remote South American jungles can be found using metal cooking pots, and American can be found eating Chinese food in Chicago?

 

Q:5

In the opening passage, the author discusses how trying to be polite while purchasing a ticket didn't work, and how he had to resort to forceful and aggressive tactics in order to receive service. In this case, the author's behavior can best be described by which statement?

 

 

 

Q:6

What term refers to how language determines ones consciousness and perceptions of objects and events?

 

 

 

 

 

Q:7

Jamaican women prefer portly men with rounded mid-sections while American women prefer men who have triangular physiques, big shoulders, and thin waistlines. This difference in what is socially desirable or undesirable is an example of differences in                                                                                                .

 

Q:8

The expectations, or rules of behavior, that develop out of values are referred to by sociologists as          .

 

Q:9

Mark and Sally went walking in the park. Both of them were wearing nothing on the upper half of their bodies. Mark would be violating a                                                            , Sally would be violating a                           .

 

Q:10

When a member of society is tried, judged, and convicted of an act that results in their being expelled from that society for life, which of the following descriptions most likely applies to that act?

 

Q:11

When a group has a distinctive way of looking at life, but at the same time their values and norms reflect the dominant culture of their society, the group would be considered a[n]

                     .

 

Q:12

What term do sociologists use to describe the norms and values that people actually follow, as opposed to those that they would follow if they lived in a perfect world?

 

Q:13

What term best describes the emerging technologies that have a significant impact on social life, such as the emergence of computers, satellites, and the electronic media?

 

 

Q:14

A group's nonmaterial culture is primarily shaped by                              , because, as this aspect of society changes, so do the ways people think and relate to one another.