Deck 5: A: Culture

Question 1

It can be said that when language dies,culture dies with it.

Answer 1

True

Question 2

According to conflict theorists,culture reflects society's best interests.

Answer 2

False

Question 3

Marital infidelity is an example of a Canadian cultural more.

Answer 3

True

Question 4

"Adjustment" is the stage of culture shock in which a person feels admiration and awe for his or her new host culture.

Question 5

The distinction between a folkway and a more is the act itself.

Question 6

Approximately 7000 languages exist in the world today.

Question 7

Conflict theory is useful for demonstrating that some elements of culture operate to fulfill human needs.

Question 8

According to Lipset's book Continental Divide,Canadians are significantly more ascriptive than Americans.

Question 9

"Haptics" is a component of nonverbal communication that involves the use of smell to communicate meaning.

Question 10

Universal health care is considered a value held by many Canadians to be one of the most important defining features of society.

Question 11

Language is an example of material culture.

Question 12

Non-material culture is difficult to preserve because it includes a society's intangible and abstract components.

Question 13

There are no cultural universals,only extraordinary diversity and,increasingly,intermingling of differences.

Question 14

Social justice,anti-racist,and white supremacist groups can equally be categorized as examples of countercultural groups.

Question 15

Individuals who view their culture as superior to other cultures are practising cultural relativism.