Deck 1: Cultural Anthropology and Global Business

Question 1

What important information does participant observation provide the business community?

A) It creates unusual marketing campaigns to use in other cultures.
B) It gathers statistics through the use of detailed interview methods.
C) It reveals what people actually do, in contrast to what they say they do.
D) It explains why people purchase the things they do.

Answer 1

C

Question 2

How do we know that culture is learned, not biological?

A) Culture is too complex to be biological.
B) There are too many different cultures for them to be passed down genetically.
C) Children have the same culture as their parents.
D) A child adopted into a new country can easily learn the family's culture.

Answer 2

D

Question 3

What is a miniculture?

A) a culture that emerges in rebellion to the standard culture
B) a group composed of people who have no traditional culture of their own
C) a culture that has a very small population but maintains distinct traditions
D) a group composed of people with different roles, statuses, and value systems

Answer 3

D

Question 4

Anthropologists known as __________ work inside many of the leading manufacturing and service companies around the world.

A) linguistic and symbolic anthropologists
B) business and organizational anthropologists
C) forensic and biomedical anthropologists
D) international and domestic anthropologists

Question 5

Which of the following components of American culture best illustrates the concept of diffusion?

A) iPods
B) jazz music
C) Hollywood
D) burritos

Question 6

Which of the following best represents the relationship between biology and culture?

A) Culture determines human biology.
B) Biology determines human culture.
C) All humans have basic biological needs, but culture determines the varied ways we meet those needs.
D) All humans have basic cultural needs, but biology determines the varied ways we meet those needs.

Question 7

Which of the following is NOT a major component of all cultures, as defined by anthropologists?

A) material objects
B) fine arts and philosophy
C) ideas, values, and attitudes
D) normative patterns of behavior

Question 8

What role did the IT community have in resolving the 2002 conflict between India and Pakistan?

A) They used their power to withhold funds from the Indian army.
B) They funded U.S. and European peacekeeping forces.
C) They convinced the governments to stand down, to prevent a disruption of the global economy.
D) They applied economic sanctions on India and Pakistan until the two governments came to a peace agreement.

Question 9

Why do international businesspeople need to study culture?

A) because investors respect a well-rounded education
B) to prepare themselves for work in a new social environment
C) because there are no cultural universals to help understand a new market
D) to better understand buying habits of people in the past

Question 10

Which of the following organizations provides an example of the globalization of markets?

A) United Nations
B) European Union
C) Doctors Without Borders
D) World Health Organization

Question 11

Which of the following research methods is a core concept in cultural anthropology?

A) statistical modeling
B) laboratory analysis
C) excavation
D) participant observation

Question 12

Which of the following is NOT an example of a universal cultural pattern?

A) taxation laws
B) educational system
C) marriage customs
D) supernatural beliefs

Question 13

Which of the following situations is an example of a planned cultural change?

A) French and Italian fashions quickly appear in New York City shops.
B) Hispanic students in Texas speak English at school and Spanish at home.
C) A nonprofit organization implements a program to improve child nutrition.
D) Traditional Scots-Irish music influences Appalachian folk music.

Question 14

Market research provides information on __________, which is often lacking when American companies move abroad.

A) values, attitudes, and buying practices
B) income and savings
C) employment and education
D) kinship and marital status

Question 15

Which of the following statements is the most accurate description of cultural anthropology?

A) It looks for shared features, while also documenting variation among cultures.
B) It encourages the advancement of primitive cultures through globalization.
C) It attempts to preserve cultures in their current state by eliminating diffusion.
D) It aims to develop a single, homogenous world culture.

Question 16

The text notes that Americans even outsource some religious rituals. To which type of transaction is the text referring?

A) Priests in India conduct masses by e-mail request.
B) Buddhist monks are paid to chant for world peace.
C) Materials for religious services, such as communion wafers, are manufactured in Taiwan.
D) Many priests are Mexican-born immigrants to the U.S.

Question 17

When items or ideas are borrowed from other cultures, they are frequently __________.

A) used in the same manner they are currently used in the original culture
B) modified to better suit the recipient culture
C) used according to their traditional use in the original culture
D) modified so much that they are essentially a new invention

Question 18

In the past 30 years, the percentage of the U.S. population that is foreign born has __________.

A) declined by 10%
B) stayed the same
C) doubled
D) tripled

Question 19

Describing other cultures in terms of the categories, concepts, and perceptions of the people being studied is known as the:

A) emic approach
B) etic approach
C) formic approach
D) faltic approach

Question 20

The tendency to evaluate a foreigner's behavior by the standards of your own culture is known as __________.

A) ethnoprimism
B) ethnocentrism
C) cultural relativism
D) cultural exclusionism

Question 21

__________ is when people from two different cultures work together cooperatively, creating a better outcome than either group would have independently.

A) community engagement
B) corporate cooperation
C) organizational synergy
D) cross-cultural dynamics

Question 22

How does the anthropological definition of culture differ from the more common use of this term? To which definition does The Cultural Dimensions of International Business best reflect?

Question 23

Why was Wal-Mart's "ten foot rule" not appropriate for its stores in Germany?

A) German stores are smaller than American ones.
B) German customers value privacy while shopping.
C) German employees are less outgoing than Americans.
D) German law mandates certain patterns of behavior in shopping centers.

Question 24

Why should cultural diversity be viewed as an asset rather than a liability?

A) Diverse groups create a friendlier work environment.
B) Diverse groups attract the highest profile employees.
C) Diverse groups are more motivated to succeed.
D) Diverse groups outperform less diverse groups in creative tasks.

Question 25

Explain how business anthropology's two primary streams of research and practice differ, and how they complement one another. Then give an example of a topic of study that would be appropriate for each stream.

Question 26

What features are characteristic of corporate cultures?

A) morals, symbols, and legends
B) symbols, legends, and heroes
C) legends, heroes, and morals
D) heroes, morals, and symbols

Question 27

Imagine that you are leading a course for employees to assist in your company's expansion into a new country. Using clear examples, develop a explanation of the term globalization as it applies to international business for your employees.

Question 28

What is meant by the statement "culture is an integrated system"?

A) The culture is an amalgam of many cultures that came before it.
B) The culture has remained intact throughout history, with little to no diffusion.
C) The components of the culture are a random collection.
D) The components of the culture are interrelated into an organized system.

Question 29

Choose one of the universal cultural patterns described in the chapter