Sociology Pop Culture to Social Structure 3rd Edition By Brym - Test Bank

Chapter 2 - Culture

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Student Learning Objectives

After reading Chapter 2, students should be able to:

1.     Define culture and its main functions.

2.     Explain how culture helps humans adapt and thrive in their environments.

3.     Recognize how culture can make people freer.

4.     Analyze the ways in which culture is becoming more diverse, multicultural, and globalized.

5.     Recognize how culture can place limits on people’s freedom.

Multiple Choice Questions

1.       Sociologists call all the ideas, practices, and material objects that people create to deal with real-life problems _____.

a.   abstractions

b.   culture

c.   norms

d.   methods

e.   sociology

      ANS: b      TYPE: factual             PG: 29             SOURCE: pickup       LO: 1

2.       The sociological concept of culture

a.   is limited to what is commonly called “popular culture.”

b.   is limited to what is commonly called “high culture.”

c.   has the same meaning as “mass culture.”

d.   includes “high,” “popular,” and “mass” culture, as well as ordinary aspects of everyday life.

e.   cannot be applied to everyday experience.

ANS: d     TYPE: conceptual      PG: 29             SOURCE: new           LO: 1

3.       What is the difference between society and culture?

a.   Society is a group of people who share territory and may share culture.

b.   Cultures are generally more geographically defined than societies.

c.   Societies refer to shared practices; cultures are shared boundaries.

d.   Society is shared, culture is not.

e.   There is no difference in meaning between society and culture.

ANS: a     TYPE: conceptual      PG: 29             SOURCE: new           LO: 1

4.       Which of these is not one of the reasons that humans have been better able to survive than other animals over hundreds of thousands of years?

a.   they were smarter than other animals

b.   they created cultural survival kits

c.   they had more sophisticated brains than other animals

d.   their means of survival were flexible and complex

e.   they had greater physical endowments than other animals

      ANS: e      TYPE: factual             PG: 30             SOURCE: new           LO: 1  

5.       The three main tools in the human cultural survival kit are _____.

a.   symbols, production, language

b.   abstraction, production, cooperation

c.   norms, values, technology

d.   cooperation, symbols, language

e.   thinking, feeling, sensing

      ANS: b      TYPE: conceptual      PG: 30-31       SOURCE: new           LO: 2

6.       Human survival was based on the capacity to create general ideas or ways of thinking that are not linked to specific or particular instances.  These ideas are called _____.

a.   abstractions

b.   culture

c.   norms

d.   methods

e.   sociology

      ANS: a      TYPE: factual             PG: 30             SOURCE: pickup       LO: 2

7.     When Kyle holds up two fingers in the peace sign, she is using _____.

a.   values

b.   a symbol

c.   a norm

d.   a method

e.   sociology

      ANS: b      TYPE: applied            PG: 30             SOURCE: modified    LO: 2