Deck 3: A: Culture

Question 1

Cultural values in Canada always go together-they are all consistent with one another.

Answer 1

False

Question 2

English is the official language of about 5 percent of humanity,and it has become the preferred second language in most of the world.

Answer 2

True

Question 3

Certain ways of life are biologically "natural" to humans everywhere.

Answer 3

False

Question 4

Gestures such as "thumbs up" are used in most societies of the world to signify that something is very good.

Question 5

For at least 12,000 years,humans have used culture as a strategy for survival.

Question 6

Culture refers to values,beliefs,behavior,and material things that form a way of life.

Question 7

People around the world have much the same outward appearance,wearing the same clothing and bodily decoration.

Question 8

Values are standards that serve as broad guidelines for living.

Question 9

Cultural values in high-income nations tend to be secular-rational,giving greater importance to personal self-expression.

Question 10

Mores are norms that have great moral significance.

Question 11

Cultural transmission cannot take place unless people have a written language.

Question 12

An example of nonmaterial culture would be the types of vehicles people use to get around.

Question 13

Only 4 Aboriginal languages spoken in Canada are not on the brink of extinction.

Question 14

Symbols refer to anything that carries meaning recognized by people who share culture.

Question 15

The emergence of computer-based instant messaging shows how new symbols are being created all the time.

Question 16

All cultures have some common elements.

Question 17

Symbols allow people to make sense of their surroundings.

Question 18

Experiencing an unfamiliar culture can generate culture shock.

Question 19

The Sapir-Whorf thesis states that the language we use shapes the reality we perceive.

Question 20

In general,low-income nations have cultures that value individualism and personal self-expression.

Question 21

Values and norms help to define a society's "ideal culture."

Question 22

Sociobiologists claim that the existence of a large number of cultural universals reflects the fact that all humans are members of a single biological species.

Question 23

Cultural lag refers to the fact that some cultural elements change more quickly than others do.

Question 24

Subculture is more at odds with dominant culture than counterculture.

Question 25

Cultural change results from invention,discovery,and diffusion.

Question 26

The structural-functional approach sees culture as a relatively stable system of integrated patterns people use to meet their needs.

Question 27

Most people participate in numerous subcultures without necessarily becoming very committed to any of them.

Question 28

Technology refers to knowledge people use to make a way of life in their surroundings.

Question 29

It is fair to say that humans are prisoners of our existing culture.

Question 30

Human beings are cultural creatures.

Question 31

Eurocentrism refers to the dominance of European cultural patterns.

Question 32

Cultural universals refer to patterns that are held by everyone in a society.

Question 33

Sociobiology explores how human biology-and especially our evolutionary past-has shaped today's culture.

Question 34

Across Canada,mores vary more than folkways.

Question 35

Karl Marx argued that a society's economic system was shaped by its value system.

Question 36

Canada has a popular culture but not a high culture.

Question 37

The Old Order Mennonite way of life accepts most of this country's popular culture.

Question 38

Japan is more multicultural than Canada.

Question 39

Cultural relativism means using your own cultural standards to evaluate another culture.

Question 40

Sociobiology employs a micro level of analysis of culture.

Question 41

Culture forces us to choose as we make and remake a world for ourselves