Exam 7: Dominant U.S.Cultural Patterns Using Value Orientation Theory

In 1988,the U.S.Congress passed a Senate Resolution to recognize the influence of the Iroquois League on the U.S.Constitution and Bill of Rights.

U.S.political ideas are derived largely from which country?

Changes brought about by the Protestant Reformation included a growing support of individualism.

People in the United States generally believe that ______ is good,the new is better than the old.

Describe the U.S.worldview.

People in which industrialized nation are the most religious?

In the United States,people typically value ______ but clearly place a higher value on human life.

The Great Depression,World War II,and the ______ increased the need for a strong centralized national government.

Human being-nature orientation is one of Kluckhohn and Strodtbeck's five value orientations.

If there is one value that most of the rest of the world attributes to the United States,it is ______.

Among the world's industrialized nations,the United States is one of the least religious.

Historian David Hackett Fischer argues that early immigrants from England established distinctive regional cultures in the United States that remain today.

Discuss the world's perception of U.S.Americans as materialists.

Discuss regional differences due to immigration in the United States.

Discuss how goodness is viewed in the United States.

People in the United States define self and others by group membership.

The fundamental reason for the rise of the West was an extraordinary faith in ______.

In 1981,Garreau described his "______ nations" of North America.

Among the factors contributing to a dominant national U.S.culture was the development of radio and television that nationalized politics and popular culture.

Surveys conducted in industrialized nations during the 1980s clearly show that the most distinctive characteristics of the U.S.character are independence and ______.