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Andersen/Taylor Sociology: The Essentials, 7th edition
CHAPTER 2 WORKSHEET
1. What is culture?
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2. What is cultural relativism and why is it an important perspective?
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3. Does language shape culture or does culture shape language? Explain your answer and be
sure to incorporate the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis into your explanation.
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4. Describe ethnomethodology and explain how it contributes to an understanding of the
normative order.
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5. Explain the difference between a subculture and a counterculture. Give an example of each.
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6. Give an example of ethnocentrism from your own experience (as either a target or a
perpetrator of it).
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7. Describe what sociologists mean by a global culture.
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8. Explain the difference between popular culture and elite culture. Also give examples of each.
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9. Explain the statement, “News is actually manufactured in a complex social process.”
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10. What is cultural hegemony, and how does it contribute to political resistance?
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11. Explain what is meant by cultural capital and describe how it is displayed. What are its
positive and negative consequences?
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12. Explain how the application of a symbolic interaction perspective can help with
understanding culture.
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13. Give an instance in which you experience cultural shock. Explain why it happened and how
you felt.
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14. Describe an example of cultural diffusion that you have experienced.
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15. Give an example of a powerful group imposing a new culture on a society, and a movement
that developed to resist that imposition.
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