Practice Quiz: Chapter 02

. In Marxist terminology, the economic mode of production forms the "base" of society upon which rests which of the following?

. Erving Goffman is associated with which framework?

. The statement "when cultural practices fail to unite people, society can become very unstable" is most likely linked to which classical school of thought?

. Which of the following is NOT an example of culture?

. Which term do Marxists use to refer to the capitalists, or those who own the means of production in society?

. Which term did Antonio Gramsci use to refer to the domination of the masses by ideas and cultural forms that are important to the smaller but more dominant group within a society?

. Which term does Arnold van Gennep use to refer to rituals that transform people's status within a society?

. Dignity Village in Portland, Oregon was the first of which type of space in US history?

. Which term did Emile Durkheim develop to recognize social organization in smaller communities where people have strong common values and beliefs?

. Which term refers to formal norms scripted into laws and regulations within a society that people are expected to follow?

. Sociobiology is a pro-cultural approach. The dimensions of physical and social space are entirely independent of each other.

. Organic solidarity occurs in smaller communities where people have strong common values and beliefs.

. Marxists are interested in explaining social order, and they see culture as a key factor in creating social stability.

. The proletariat are the members of the ruling class.

. Language is a logic-based and shared symbolic system that structures how people communicate with each other.

. Material culture includes things such as tools, natural resources, weaponry, and even clothes. Aesthetics refers to a system of principles for the appreciation of the beautiful.

. Sociobiology is an anti-cultural approach.

. Differences in culture rarely produce conflict.

. Symbols can have physical as well as non-physical forms.

. Michel Foucault said that all cultures produce places for alternative cultural practices.

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