Deck 2: Culture and Society

Question 1

The Code of the Streets ELIJAH ANDERSON
"Street" or a person's adoption of what Anderson calls the "orientation of the street" is a response to:

A) globalization and corporate control of popular images
B) racial, ethnic, and class prejudice
C) violence and very limited means of achievement in the person's environment
D) popular culture's images of success and accomplishment, i.e. making it in America

Answer 1

C

Question 2

To Veil or Not to Veil? A Case Study of Identity Negotiation Among Muslim Women in Austin, Texas JEN'NAN GHAZAL READ and JOHN P. BARTKOWSKI
Muslim women who did not wear the veil explained their choice as:

A) personal, not the consequence of group pressure by non-Muslims
B) an expression of their doubts about Islam and their diminishing religious faith
C) an effort to remove an impediment to academic or professional success
D) aesthetic; they saw themselves as more attractive without the veil
E) All of the above are reasons women did not wear the veil
10) McDonald's in Hong Kong: Consumerism, Dietary Change and the Rise of a Children's Culture (from Golden Arches East) JAMES L. WATSON

Answer 2

A

Question 3

America's National Eating Disorder (from The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals) MICHAEL POLLAN
Pollan believes that Americans spend too much time and effort:

A) seeking out the best restaurants and the most fashionable kinds of foods available
B) trying to grow their own food because they distrust what is sold in grocery stores
C) fixing food that can be prepared better by professionals-in cafes and restaurants and in packaged meals
D) worrying about what they eat, causing them to fall prey to eating fads and diet schemes

Answer 3

D

Question 4

The Code of the Streets ELIJAH ANDERSON
To know and practice the code of the streets is to be:

A) an operator
B) manipulated by "the boss"
C) a real man
D) defeated by the difficulties in life
E) admired by artists across society, and especially those in Hollywood who make films
12) America's National Eating Disorder (from The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals) MICHAEL POLLAN

Question 5

McDonald's in Hong Kong: Consumerism, Dietary Change and the Rise of a Children's Culture (from Golden Arches East) JAMES L. WATSON
According to Watson, McDonald's in Hong Kong has attracted what group(s) of customers?

A) older people who eat alone
B) students who go there to meet and study
C) foreigners who don't like Chinese food and want to eat something familiar and predictable
D) those who clean and work in building construction in downtown Hong Kong.

Question 6

America's National Eating Disorder (from The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals) MICHAEL POLLAN
Who, according to Pollan, benefits most from what he calls "America's eating disorder"?

A) the food industry, which takes advantage of Americans' anxieties about food to sell more and more of it.
B) we do, because we share information and help each other make the best choices about food
C) poor countries that are able to grow food crops cheaply and sell it on the U.S. market
D) working women who have very little time to prepare meals, especially when married to men who do not know how to cook or refuse to learn

Question 7

The Code of the Streets ELIJAH ANDERSON
Anderson compares and contrasts "street" orientation to:

A) decent orientation
B) home orientation and family orientation
C) alienation orientation
D) school orientation and work orientation
E) dirt road orientation

Question 8

The Code of the Streets ELIJAH ANDERSON
The code of the streets applies to whom?

A) police and social workers who try to help solve urban problems
B) a small portion of inner-city youth
C) anyone who wants to be successful
D) women (and a few men) who have lost hope of ever having a family and a home

Question 9

McDonald's in Hong Kong: Consumerism, Dietary Change and the Rise of a Children's Culture (from Golden Arches East) JAMES L. WATSON

-Which of the following is typical of customers' behavior at Hong Kong's McDonald's?

A) the staff is friendly and everyone-including the customers-smiles a lot
B) customers clear off their tables and are eager to keep the restaurant tidy and clean
C) customers tend not to use napkins (though they are widely available) because they believe that paper products are too valuable to use so wastefully
D) customers are voluntarily sex-segregated, with males on one side of the restaurant and females on the other

Question 10

America's National Eating Disorder (from The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals) MICHAEL POLLAN
The cultural feature absent in America, according to Pollan, is a agreement between men and women about what is physically healthy
B) the rejection of foods that do not deplete our resources and destroy our environment
C) a traditional sense of the food we eat and how, when, and where to eat it
D) the "goulash" or stew that mixes the cultural contributions of immigrant groups into a national cuisine

Question 11

McDonald's in Hong Kong: Consumerism, Dietary Change and the Rise of a Children's Culture (from Golden Arches East) JAMES L. WATSON
According to Watson, the main reason the people of Hong Kong eat at McDonald's is to:

A) have a "typical American experience"
B) meet foreigners and practice using the English they learned in school
C) save money
D) enjoy a snack or meal, often in the company of friends and family
E) be assured that what they eat is safe and free of bacteria and other disease-bearing microbes

Question 12

To Veil or Not to Veil? A Case Study of Identity Negotiation Among Muslim Women in Austin, Texas JEN'NAN GHAZAL READ and JOHN P. BARTKOWSKI
A major reason for wearing the veil, according to Read and Bartkowski, was that wearing it:

A) showed a woman's faith and respect for her religion
B) connected a woman to others with whom she shared a friendship or other relationship
C) protected a woman and hid her valuable female qualities from strangers
D) sent a message to men that she was not interested in flirting or having a relationship
E) All of the above are reasons women wore the veil

Question 13

To Veil or Not to Veil? A Case Study of Identity Negotiation Among Muslim Women in Austin, Texas JEN'NAN GHAZAL READ and JOHN P. BARTKOWSKI
In their study of veiling, Read and Bartkowski found that a major reason some Muslim women do not wear the veil is because:

A) their workmates would treat them in a peculiar and unflattering way if they wore the veil
B) they are married to men who do not practice the Muslim faith
C) they think it is illegal, especially in public buildings
D) they think it is a cultural feature of Arab society, not a religious prescription of Islam
E) they doubt the core beliefs of Islam and are adopting a different religious orientation

Question 14

The Code of the Streets ELIJAH ANDERSON
Anderson sees much of the code of the streets as an effort to:

A) avoid crime and prison
B) acquire the good things in life-material affluence and security
C) escape the ghetto
D) gain respect

Question 15

McDonald's in Hong Kong: Consumerism, Dietary Change and the Rise of a Children's Culture (from Golden Arches East) JAMES L. WATSON
Watson describes how the people of Hong Kong:

A) reinterpreted McDonald's food to fit their own food categories, social needs, and culinary tastes
B) had to learn how to eat and enjoy hamburgers and fries, largely through a massive advertising campaign and the popular media
C) reject fast food as antisocial and unfriendly
D) are often confused about what they are served at McDonald's and how to eat it in the traditional manner (some choose to eat French fries with chopsticks, for example)

Question 16

To Veil or Not to Veil? A Case Study of Identity Negotiation Among Muslim Women in Austin, Texas JEN'NAN GHAZAL READ and JOHN P. BARTKOWSKI
Read and Bartkowski also found that:

A) there was animosity and bad feelings between women who did and did not wear the veil
B) women who did not wear the veil had been in the U.S. much longer than women who wore the veil
C) women who wore the veil did not resent Muslim women who did not, and vice versa.
D) younger women were much less likely to wear the veil than older women
E) in general, prettier women did not wear the veil, while more plain or unattractive women did

Question 17

To Veil or Not to Veil? A Case Study of Identity Negotiation Among Muslim Women in Austin, Texas JEN'NAN GHAZAL READ and JOHN P. BARTKOWSKI
Read and Bartkowski explored the veiling controversy by:

A) interviewing a dozen women who usually wear the veil and a dozen who do not
B) conducting a national survey involving more than two thousand people about their opinion of veiling and Muslims in general
C) collecting and analyzing sharia law and the legal statutes of more than twenty countries that stipulate where and when women should wear the veil
D) doing participant observation on the University of Texas campus, coding and tabulating information about students who wear the veil and those who do not

Question 18

McDonald's in Hong Kong: Consumerism, Dietary Change and the Rise of a Children's Culture (from Golden Arches East) JAMES L. WATSON
As in other Asian countries, McDonald's in Hong Kong has often been:

A) protested and criticized by those who object to American influence in China
B) difficult to establish because the Chinese have their own fast food franchises that provide a great deal of competition
C) forced by popular demand to provide mostly Chinese dishes (noodles, rice, fish, soups) rather than the traditional hamburgers and fries
D) plagued by customers' cell phone and smartphone use, to the point of prohibiting these devices in restaurants
E) None of the above are true

Question 19

America's National Eating Disorder (from The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals) MICHAEL POLLAN
Michael Pollan presents an examination of:

A) Americans' anxieties and uncertainties about what they should be eating
B) the steady "diet" of biased and slanted information in the media, including blogs and "infomercials," that gives us an inaccurate picture of world, national, and local affairs
C) childhood obesity and the long-term threat this poses for health and the health care system
D) anorexia nervosa, the most common eating disorder among male and female college-age youth

Question 20

The Code of the Streets ELIJAH ANDERSON
The essay "The Code of the Street" is about:

A) organized crime in the drug trade
B) prostitutes who publicly hustle "johns"
C) inner city African American males
D) people living outside the formal or "taxed" economy, through the barter system and cash transactions
E) young athletes who aspire to be professional stars

Question 21

America's National Eating Disorder (from The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals) MICHAEL POLLAN
Who devised the dietary and health practices that Pollan describes as an extreme example of "America's eating disorder"?

A) Walter P. Chestnut, an artist whose paintings inspired people to eat exotic foods
B) John Harvey Kellogg, namesake of the Kellogg Company that is famous for making breakfast cereal
C) Anna Murkowski, novelist and essayist who wrote a food column in American newspapers for more than 50 years
D) Rick Spicer, a health advocate who lost more than 200 pounds during the time he had a physical fitness show on television in the 1950s and 1960s
13) From Nike Culture: The Sign of the Swoosh ROBERT GOLDMAN and STEPHEN PAPSON

Question 22

From Nike Culture: The Sign of the Swoosh ROBERT GOLDMAN and STEPHEN PAPSON
The most profound effect of Nike advertising, according to Goldman and Papson, is its ability to make people feel:

A) connected to a global community, humanity, and the "family of man"
B) guilty about themselves, but convinced that Nike products are a path to forgiveness
C) morally superior to those who don't "get the joke"
D) abstract, timeless, and otherworldly

Question 23

From Nike Culture: The Sign of the Swoosh ROBERT GOLDMAN and STEPHEN PAPSON
The sociological lesson to be drawn from this excerpt from Nike Culture is that:

A) a virtual world of media images-rather than a physical place of shared experiences-can create a community of millions of individuals with the same values and identity
B) gender issues have changed little in the past half century; i.e. it's still a man's world
C) childhood is possible for everyone, for a lifetime, if you have the right attitude
D) individuals behave rationally and treat each other on the basis of personal self interest

Question 24

From Nike Culture: The Sign of the Swoosh ROBERT GOLDMAN and STEPHEN PAPSON
The "core dilemma" that Goldman and Papson outline in Nike Culture is between:

A) individualism and community
B) the sacred (religious) and the profane (everyday)
C) caring about others, including strangers, and caring about those who you know best
D) exercising moderately in order to be healthy and sacrificing everything in order to win
E) being a participant and being a spectator

Question 25

From Nike Culture: The Sign of the Swoosh ROBERT GOLDMAN and STEPHEN PAPSON
In this excerpt, Goldman and Papson concentrate primarily on:

A) the growing consumerism of people in poor countries, including Bangladesh and Ecuador
B) the world of celebrity and the use of personal wealth to buy influence, privilege, and power
C) Unhealthy sweatshops in Asia and elsewhere that pay and treat workers very poorly
D) Nike Corporation advertising

Question 26

From Nike Culture: The Sign of the Swoosh ROBERT GOLDMAN and STEPHEN PAPSON
Nike's image of _______ takes over the role usually played by religion, community, and work in addressing the essential human challenges of physical survival, establishing relationships, coordinating activity, and finding meaning in life.

A) love
B) economic success
C) sports
D) cool
E) freedom and individual rights

Question 27

From Nike Culture: The Sign of the Swoosh ROBERT GOLDMAN and STEPHEN PAPSON
In order to help the reader see Nike Culture through a critical lens, the authors use the sociological language of:

A) rap music
B) religion
C) objective social science
D) popular satirical humor
E) social networking via Twitter and Facebook