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Chapter 3 Practice Quiz
Culture
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Which of the following is NOT a characteristic of Canada's dominant culture?
Heterosexuals
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Men
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University graduates
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Small-town Albertans
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Healthy people
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What was Michael Adams's finding in his study of Canadian and American values?
Canadian and American values are converging.
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Canadian and American values are based on government ideologies.
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Canadian and American values are never similar.
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Canadian and American values are based on constitutional matters.
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Canadian and American values are becoming more divergent.
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What term does Jean Baudrillard use to refer to stereotypical cultural images produced and reproduced like commodities?
Memes
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Tropes
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Simulacra
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Trinkets
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Symbols
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What is ethnocentrism?
The patriarchal dominance of men over women
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An egotistical feeling of personal superiority over others
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The belief that products made elsewhere are superior
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A research method that relies on fieldwork
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Holding up a culture as the standard by which all others should be judged
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Which sociologist was responsible for distinguishing among three different kinds of norms?
Giddens
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Sumner
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Graham
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Reid
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Williams
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Who coined the term "cultural capital" to refer to the knowledge and skills needed to acquire the sophisticated tastes that mark someone as a person of high culture?
Max Weber
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Pierre Bourdieu
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George Herbert Mead
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Erving Goffman
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Karl Marx
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Which of the following is a good example of a counterculture?
Recent immigrants
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A youth hockey team
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A biker gang
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Politicians
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A church choir
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What is the name of the Northwest Coast Indigenous ceremony that was banned by the Canadian government in 1884?
Sun dance
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Sweat lodge
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Potlatch
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Vision quest
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Round dance
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What type of culture falls outside of the cultural mainstream?
Subculture
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Counterculture
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Minority culture
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High culture
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Popular culture
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What type of culture falls outside of the cultural mainstream?
Subculture
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Counterculture
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Minority culture
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High culture
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When students are encouraged to be critical of what the media present as facts, they are expected to be able to detect simulacra.
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Cannibalism is an example of a taboo
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In 2019, 37% of the parliamentarians in Ottawa were women. This female representation means Canada's dominant culture is not male.
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The more cultural capital you have, the "higher" your cultural class.
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Cultural artifacts provide no value to researchers.
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Speakers of the same language always share the same culture.
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Sociologists are an example of a subculture
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Baudrillard describes simulacra as being "hyperreal"
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Students are encouraged to be critical of what the media present as facts, they are expected to be able to detect simulacra.
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"Goths" are a good example of a counterculture.
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