Chapter 2: Culture, Society, and Social Change
Key Terms


This section is designed to test your mastery of key terms pertaining to culture, society, and social change.


1.  

Beliefs, languages, and music are examples of __________.

ethnocentrism
nonmaterial culture
cultural relativism
material culture


2.  

Legal codes, worldviews, and language are examples of __________.

non-material culture
cultural universals
material culture
cultural relativism


3.  

Groups of people that obey a central authority and share a common culture make up a ________.

universal culture
relative culture
value system
society


4.  

When he visited India for the first time, Joe felt anxiety because he did not know the culture's _________.

norms
cultural universals
symbols
ethnocentricity


5.  

A mushroom cloud is considered a ________ because it represents something else.

language
cultural relativity
symbol
value


6.  

Yasmeen engaged in _________ when she judged the United States by the standards of her own culture.

nonmaterial culture
ethnocentrism
multiculturalism
cultural relativity


7.  

The concept of _________ began in education in the 1960s.

multiculturalism
cultural superiority
cultural relativity
ethnocentrism


8.  

_________ is the result of valuing a familiar culture over an unknown culture.

nonmaterial culture
cultural universal
cultural relativity
ethnocentrism


9.  

The _________ in the United States includes technology and mechanization.

farm movement
mode of subsistence
green revolution
transitional phase


10.  

In _________ societies, women find and prepare food while men bring home game animals.

postindustrial
agrarian
hunting and gathering
horticultural


11.  

_________ societies are dominated by service jobs.

Industrial
Postindustrial
Horticultural
Transnational


12.  

_________ societies are characterized by tradition, low technology, and a simple division of labor.

Associational
Transitional
Communal
Modern


13.  

Developments in genetic engineering have outpaced developments in our values, norms, and ideologies about it. This exemplifies _________.

material culture
cultural universal
culture lag
taboo


14.  

_________ theory assumes that the history of traditional societies will mirror the history of the United States.

Evolutionary
Modernization
Functionalism
Conflict


15.  

_________ is the process of transmission of a cultural element from one group or society to another.

Innovation
Discovery
Diffusion
Culture lag


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