Deck 3: B: Culture

Question 1

What is the difference between subculture and counterculture? Define your terms carefully.

Answer 1

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Question 2

How does Lipset first describe and then explain the differences between Canadians and Americans?

Answer 2

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Question 3

What basic view of culture underlies the structural-functional approach? Explain.

Answer 3

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Question 4

What makes Canadians and Americans different?

Question 5

What is ethnocentrism? What is cultural relativism? Identify a problem with each.

Question 6

Describe Canada in 6 words or less (i.e. ,create a Canadian motto).Why did you choose the words you did?

Question 7

Explain the importance of the five common components of all human culture: symbols,language,values,beliefs,and norms.

Question 8

What basic view of culture underlies the social-conflict approach? Explain.

Question 9

What does the sociobiology approach tell us about human culture? Explain.

Question 10

What is the difference between "ideal" and "real" culture?

Question 11

What is the difference between material and nonmaterial culture?

Question 12

What is the difference between high culture and popular culture?

Question 13

Give an example of each of the following: (a)folkways, (b)mores, (c)a prescriptive norm,and (d)a proscriptive norm.

Question 14

What causes culture shock?

Question 15

Discuss how societies in the world have more contact with one another than ever before.