Chapter 2 Quiz

* not completed

. When we teach children to eat with a fork rather than eat with chopsticks, we are engaging in

indoctrination correct incorrect

normative behavior correct incorrect

acculturation correct incorrect

enculturation correct incorrect

* not completed

. Enculturation starts

around five years old correct incorrect

around two years old correct incorrect

as soon as we are born correct incorrect

after puberty correct incorrect

* not completed

. One of the first steps that an anthropologist must take to understand other cultures is to

be patriotic correct incorrect

overcome ethnocentrism correct incorrect

form opinions on beliefs and practices based on secondary literature correct incorrect

obtain an advanced degree correct incorrect

* not completed

. Your schooling has led you to believe that all assigned homework must be passed in on time. This is an example of

the invention of tradition correct incorrect

ethnocentrism correct incorrect

implicit enculturation correct incorrect

cultural relativism correct incorrect

* not completed

. Some anthropologists believe we should move beyond cultural relativism and adopt critical relativism, which is the idea that

all human actions are the product of culture correct incorrect

one should only take a stance on a practice or belief after trying to understand it in its cultural context correct incorrect

there is no ethical way to adopt the symbols of another culture correct incorrect

anthropologists are only qualified to study their own cultural groups correct incorrect

* not completed

. What is the opposite of ethnocentrism?

absolutism correct incorrect

cultural relativism correct incorrect

norms correct incorrect

traditions correct incorrect

* not completed

. Cultural determinism is

the idea that culture waxes and wanes according to population size correct incorrect

the idea that culture is determined by human evolution correct incorrect

the belief that culture is determined by environment correct incorrect

the belief that culture is responsible for all human action correct incorrect

* not completed

. The alphabet and numbers are examples of

culture correct incorrect

symbols correct incorrect

traditions correct incorrect

norms correct incorrect

* not completed

. Values are

symbolic expressions of intrinsically desirable principles of qualities correct incorrect

typical patterns of behavior viewed as rules of how things should be done correct incorrect

the most enduring and ritualized aspects of culture correct incorrect

something that conventionally stands for something else correct incorrect

* not completed

. Traditions are

symbolic expressions of intrinsically desirable principles of qualities correct incorrect

typical patterns of behavior viewed as rules of how things should be done correct incorrect

the most enduring and ritualized aspects of culture correct incorrect

something that conventionally stands for something else correct incorrect

* not completed

. Norms are

symbolic expressions of intrinsically desirable principles of qualities correct incorrect

typical patterns of behavior viewed as rules of how things should be done correct incorrect

the most enduring and ritualized aspects of culture correct incorrect

something that conventionally stands for something else correct incorrect

* not completed

. Symbols are

expressions of intrinsically desirable principles of qualities correct incorrect

typical patterns of behavior viewed as rules of how things should be done correct incorrect

the most enduring and ritualized aspects of culture correct incorrect

something that conventionally stands for something else correct incorrect

* not completed

. Norms are

ethnocentric correct incorrect

stable over time correct incorrect

invisible correct incorrect

flexible correct incorrect

* not completed

. Marriage is

a norm correct incorrect

a tradition correct incorrect

a social institution correct incorrect

symbolic correct incorrect

* not completed

. Why do so many Americans prefer cereal for breakfast?

it fulfills most of our required nutrition for the day correct incorrect

it is the cheapest option available correct incorrect

it is seen as patriotic correct incorrect

it has become the norm through social institutions, beliefs, power relations, and daily life correct incorrect