Deck 10: Culture: A Sociological View

Question 1

According to the author, all social sciences are concerned with ______.

A) why people engage in deviant behavior
B) what makes people happy
C) when brain development first begins
D) how people manage to act together

Answer 1

D

Question 2

Which statement about the author's Saturday night music is the most accurate?

A) He played in Boston.
B) He usually played with strangers.
C) His band eventually got a record deal.
D) His agent encouraged him to play percussion.

Answer 2

B

Question 3

Historically, culture has been a term owned by ______.

A) anthropologists
B) psychologists
C) criminologists
D) sociologists

Answer 3

A

Question 4

The typical cultural explanation of behavior suggests that culture is ______.

A) conflictual
B) opportunistic
C) incompatible
D) preexisting

Question 5

Which norm allows people privacy and makes it possible for urban Americans to occupy crowded public spaces without making each other uneasy?

A) participant observation
B) personal mores
C) civil inattention
D) social deviance

Question 6

In order to be effective in the organization of public behavior, cultural understandings must be all of the following except ______.

A) learned young
B) intermittently disruptive
C) learned routinely
D) widely held

Question 7

Art and philosophy are examples of ______.

A) high culture
B) Goffman rules
C) civil inattention
D) social deviance

Question 8

Which sociological phenomenon can be explained using the concept of culture?

A) unprecedented success
B) halo effect
C) cognitive dissonance
D) concerted activity

Question 9

The author describes culture as a ______ of the existence of a group of acting people.

A) consequence
B) celebration
C) privilege
D) profession

Question 10

Which term is central to the concept of high culture?

A) work
B) honor
C) quality
D) impulse

Question 11

Provide a basic definition of culture.

Question 12

Define high culture and provide one example.

Question 13

Compare and contrast sociological and anthropological definitions of culture.

Question 14

Describe the work culture for workers who remain in the same place for their entire work lives. How does this compare to workers who move from workplace to workplace?

Question 15

Briefly explain how cultural understandings affect and "socialize" the internal experiences people have.