Chapter 5 Practice Quizzes

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. Which of the following is NOT a characteristic of Canada's dominant culture?

Imposing values through political and economic power correct incorrect

Imposing values and language on a given society correct incorrect

Imposing ways of behaving and interpreting behaviour on a given society correct incorrect

Imposing values of the lower income class onto other social groups correct incorrect

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. Culture is expressed in the following ways except:

Behaviour correct incorrect

Beliefs correct incorrect

Buildings correct incorrect

Language correct incorrect

Decipherment correct incorrect

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. What term does Jean Baudrillard use to refer to stereotypical cultural images produced and reproduced like commodities?

Memes correct incorrect

Tropes correct incorrect

Simulacra correct incorrect

Trinkets correct incorrect

Symbols correct incorrect

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. What is ethnocentrism?

The patriarchal dominance of men over women correct incorrect

An egotistical feeling of personal superiority over others correct incorrect

The belief that products made elsewhere are superior correct incorrect

A research method that relies on fieldwork correct incorrect

Holding up a culture as the standard by which all others should be judged correct incorrect

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. __________ is characterized by a greater appreciation for context in understanding and evaluating culture.

Ethnocentrism correct incorrect

Cultural relativism correct incorrect

Presentism correct incorrect

Eurocentrism correct incorrect

Cultural globalization correct incorrect

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. Sociolinguistics looks at language in relation to the sociological factor of

Race correct incorrect

Ethnicity correct incorrect

Aged correct incorrect

Gender correct incorrect

All of the answers listed are correct correct incorrect

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. The way we view and understand the world is shaped by the language we speak. This is the principle of _________

Cultural relativism correct incorrect

Linguistic determinism correct incorrect

Sociolinguistics correct incorrect

Presentism linguistics correct incorrect

Dialects correct incorrect

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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 correct incorrect

Sweat lodge correct incorrect

Potlatchd) Vision quest correct incorrect

Round dance correct incorrect

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. Which of the following is NOT an example of a positive sanction?\

A smile correct incorrect

A high-five correct incorrect

A financial bonus at work correct incorrect

A glare or eye-roll correct incorrect

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. According to Sumner, which of the following encompasses simple day to day etiquette (such as teaching someone table manners?)

Taboos correct incorrect

Mores correct incorrect

Folkways correct incorrect

None of the answers listed are correct correct incorrect

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. In 1884, the Canadian government banned the potlatch, making participation in the Indigenous ceremony a misdemeanour.

True correct incorrect

False correct incorrect

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. Cannibalism is an example of a taboo

True correct incorrect

False correct incorrect

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. Sociologists have used the term ethnocentrism to describe the one-way flow of cultural ideas from the West to the rest of the world.

True correct incorrect

False correct incorrect

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. Culture symbols that are physical objects are sometimes called cultural artifacts.

True correct incorrect

False correct incorrect

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. Values have long been a topic of interest to sociologists. Max Weber's identification of the Protestant work ethic is one early example of a sociological study of values.

True correct incorrect

False correct incorrect

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. Mores do not change over time.

True correct incorrect

False correct incorrect

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. Sociologists are an example of a counterculture

True correct incorrect

False correct incorrect

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. In Canada, the dominant culture consists of white, English and French speaking, heterosexual, male university graduates of European background between the ages of 30 and 55, in good health. Many own homes in middle class neighbourhoods of cities and suburbs, in Ontario and Quebec, for example.

True correct incorrect

False correct incorrect

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. Cultural capital refers to the knowledge and skills needed to acquire the sophisticated tastes that mark someone as a person of high culture. The more cultural capital you have, the higher your cultural class.

True correct incorrect

False correct incorrect

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. "Goths" are a good example of a counterculture.

True correct incorrect

False correct incorrect