SOC 1101 Week 2 Quiz

The famous anthropologist Margaret Mead said that the United States of America is the best place to raise a female child. Her assertion is an example of

Ethnocentrism

Which term describes a policy of honoring diverse racial, ethnic, national, and linguistic backgrounds?

Multiculturalism

Which of the following is accurate about the process of socialization?

Society shapes the individual, and the individual shapes society.

Many people in the United States express disgust at the idea of people snacking on grasshoppers and crickets despite the fact that people do so in places such as Thailand. This suggests that, in the United States, eating insects is a

Taboo

Jill is visiting her boyfriend's family in China. She points at him with her index finger during a conversation, which his family doesn't seem to like. Her boyfriend later explains that she should point with an open hand instead of using a finger. Why is this instruction needed?

The meaning of gestures is not universal

Which of the following terms is used to describe a group with values and norms that oppose the dominant culture?

counterculture

The controversy surrounding North Carolina's 2016 HB2 law is an example of which of the following concepts?

culture wars

An example of something that would be part of the material culture of an individual or society would be

weapons of war

________ occurs when the dominant culture succeeds in imposing its values and ideas on all of society.

Hedemony

Oftentimes, a larger number of people claim that they voted in their recent local elections than the number that actually did vote. This is perhaps because more people believed that they should have voted. This belief is an example of

Ideal Culture

Examples of _______ are designer labels on purses and logos on shirts

Material culture

Individuals who are not socialized

are unable to fully develop without contact with others

A college student plans to go to graduate school because she thinks of herself as having excellent critical thinking skills and a brilliant mind. Where would Charles Cooley's theory of the looking-glass self suggest that she got these ideas?

These ideas come from teachers and students expressing admiration.

Which of the following is a step in Charles Cooley's model of the looking-glass self?

We interpret others reactions to us

At the beginning of the twenty-first century, some people placed signs with crudely painted skeletons holding cell phones near roadways, usually facing freeway ramps. These signs indicated disapproval of using cell phones while driving, which is a practice some states have now made illegal. As a result of this social movement,

an informal norm has become a law.

What is an example of a culture war?

anti-abortion advocates demonstrating in front of a family planning clinic

Sigmund Freud's most significant contribution to the understanding of the self is

his theory of the unconscious mind

According to Sigmund Freud, the mind's ________ is composed of biological drives and is the source of psychic energy.

id

"Each to each a looking-glass, / Reflects the other that doth pass." This line of poetry, associated with sociologist Charles Cooley, indicates that our sense of self originates in

interactions with other people.

A cultural group that exists harmoniously within a larger, dominant, culture is called

subculture

In the movie Mean Girls, students identify each other using categories like "jocks," "cheerleaders," "skaters," and "nerds." These classifications of different groups represent what aspect of culture?

the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis

Unlike folkways, mores are closely related to

the core values of a group

Julian is a child who consistently earns mediocre grades and is often picked last for team games. He likes to make silly jokes and play pranks, and he notices that people laugh when he does so. The child starts to think that others are laughing with him, not at him. Charles Cooley would say this development is part of

the looking-glass self

Ethnocentric people tend to view other cultures as abnormal because

they use their own culture as a standard of judgement

A goal of socialization is

to teach norms and values and beliefs