Chapter 25 Self-grading Quizzes

Culture and Development
. Nationalism is ________.

. The Hindu fundamentalists in India are an example of the clash of ________ and ________.

. Culture is seen as a homogeneous and essentialist whole, without fissures and ________.

. The following statements is true of postmodern views on culture and development: _______.

. Max Weber's theory of the ________ identified specific cultural traits that were argued to be key to successful (Western) capitalist development.

. Non-Western traditional societies are characterized by ________.

. In his influential book ________, Edward Said deconstructed common assumptions about the East.

. ________ argued that cultural struggle is not a one-sided process in which the ruling or dominant culture simply overruns or decimates the subordinate culture.

. According to James Scott, subordinate and powerless groups that may lack the material means to challenge dominant groups, nonetheless engage in ________.

. In post-colonial theory, there is an obsessive focus on the colonial past and _______.

. One of the scholars who misunderstood culture is ________.

. Culture can be seen as ________.

. ________ asks how is it possible to study mass-mediated cultural forms without understanding the broadcasting institutions that produced them.

. ________ assume(s) that hunter-gatherers are poor.

. Claims of cultural homogeneity and distinctness, for instance, are routinely made in relation to ________.

. The variety of understandings about culture is mainly a result of __________.

. Culture becomes important because _____________.

. According to Clifford Geertz, __________________.

. The evolutionary definition of culture _____________.

. Definitions that narrowly treat culture as a mere by-product of other, "real" interests in society ____________.

. The study of culture should move on to a study of the historically specific and socially structured contexts that constitute ____________.

. Culture can be studied in relation to the history of __________.

. The cultural and the material spheres are intimately ______________.

. Without understanding culture interlinkages with the economic dimension ___________.

. To understand the cultural forms of the present in-depth, ______________.

. The "Asian values" thesis is an example of elites using cultural propaganda to obtain legitimacy.

. It is not possible to achieve social justice without some appeal to universalism.

. Modernization theory argues that "traditional" cultural forms are obstacles to economic development.

. Culture and development are different categories. They cannot be interlinked.

. Culture is as marked by relations of power as any other sphere in society and is continuously changing according to the nature of contestation and struggle.

. Classic texts such as Edward Said's Orientalism deconstructed many commonplace assumptions about the Orient.

. According to Amartya Sen, culture is only an end of development, not a means to it.

. Since the Enlightenment in eighteenth-century Europe, Western thought has been dominated by an outlook that placed its faith in human reason instead of in an extraneous supernatural authority

. Max Weber's theory of the Catholic ethic argues that specific traits of Catholics (like discipline and hard work) played a major role in the origin of capitalism.

. The value system central to capitalist modernization is the "culture ideology of consumerism."

. The materialist view of cultures asserts the primacy of culture over material factors in social change.

. Modern science and technology could not have originated unless the belief in the sacredness of nature had been substantially altered.

. The practice of cultural forms and the enjoyment of symbolic objects are activities devoid of ideology.

. Cultural relativism asserts that cultural practices are not necessarily right or wrong.

. A major flaw in the postmodern theoretical framework is the nearly total absence in it of an analysis of material relationships.

. Garnham does not advise to study multiculturalism by studying the movement of labour and people that created it in the first place.

. It is hard to acknowledge any inextricable linkages between culture and development.

. Technology plays a crucial role in present-day culture.

. Technology shows that culture exist in a vacuum.

. Communication technologies like the Internet and mobile phones have had a significant impact on the cultural meanings of human relationships and interaction.

. Communication technologies like the Internet and mobile phones have had a significant impact on the cultural meanings of human relationships and interaction, but not in the Global South.

. One of the most important debates within the social science tradition since its origin has been the materialism versus socialism debate.

. Paradoxes produced by the coexistence of modern and traditional ways of life in the Global South are very pronounced.

. The chivalry story genre would not have been possible in any age other than the scientific age.

. Even as the economic mode of production, along with the level of science and technology, sets a limit to the kinds of cultural forms that are produced, this relationship is not mechanical.

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