Chapter 4 Global

The belief in the superiority of one's own culture is known as:

ethnocentrism

The emphasis on individualism in the United States results in all of the following disadvantages except:

executives are not exposed to different ways of doing business

This is a less rigid form of social stratification in which social mobility is possible.

Class system

Which of the following is not true regarding culture?

Culture is static

_____ are social conventions concerning things such as the appropriate dress code in a particular situation, good social manners, eating with the correct utensils, neighborly behavior, and the like.

Folkways

During the 1960s and 1970s, class divisions in _____ raised the cost of doing business there, relative to other European countries.

Great Britain

According to sociologists, which of the following branches of Christianity has the most important economic implications?

Protestant

Ethical systems are:

a set of moral principles, or values, that are used to guide and shape behavior.

A _____ is a closed system of stratification in which social position is determined by the family into which a person is born, and change in that position is usually not possible during an individual's lifetime.

caste system

The system of values and norms that are shared among a group of people and that when taken together constitute a design for living best defines:

culture

According to Max Weber:

devout Hindus would be less likely to engage in entrepreneurial activity than devout Protestants

A central value of Japanese culture is the importance attached to

group membership

The social organization of Western society tends to emphasize on:

individual achievement

The _____ dimension of Hofstede's study explores how a society deals with the fact that people are unequal in physical and intellectual capabilities.

power distance

Which of the following refers to the extent to which individuals can move out of the strata into which they are born?

social mobility

An act, as simple as shaking hands when meeting new people is an example of:

symbolic behavior

The individualism vs. collectivism dimension of Hofstede's study explored:

the relationship between the individual and his/her fellows

The emergence of class consciousness in Great Britain can be attributed to:

the relative lack of class mobility

According to Islam, those who hold property are regarded as:

trustees