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Review What do American value? (Williams 1970) Achievement and success Hard work Efficiency and practicality Science and rationality Progress Material comfort Equality Freedom Democracy Statements of belief Men are stronger than women. God exists. Hard work leads to personal success. Women are smarter than men. The heart is the seat of emotion. Which of the following is an example of something that would pertain to a person’s symbolic culture? Navajo jewelry A knife, fork, and spoon Imported French wine A Rembrandt painting Belonging to a political party Which of the following is an example of something that would pertain to a person’s or a society’s material culture? Weapons of war Democracy as a political system A belief in a supreme being A preference to have health rather than wealth Hard work leads to personal success. The Sapir-Whorf hypothesis (also called the principle of linguistic relativity) suggests that: Although we have different labels for things, all humans share the same sense of social reality. Non-verbal communication is as powerful as language in social interaction. Language can structure our perceptions of reality. We relate to each other on a symbolic rather than literal level. Our perceptions of reality can affect the dialect we speak. In America, a married man who has several mistresses is violating a_______, but if he is married to more than one women at the same time he is violating a _____. Positive sanction/Negative sanction Law/Taboo Norm/Folkway Folkway/Sanction More/Law Which of the following groups in most likely to be classified as a counterculture? A group of survivalists living in Montana New York taxi drivers Students belonging to the Middle Eastern Studies Club Members of the NAACP (National Association for the Advancement of Colored People) A member of the American Bar Association A “culture war” is best illustrated by which of the following example? The presence of an ROTC unit on a college campus One Democrat and two Republican serving as County Commissioners together Pro-life advocates demonstrating in front of a family planning clinic Christians celebrating Easter, Jews celebrating Passover and Muslims celebrating Ramadan The existence of both a football team and a debate team in many high schools When Patti Sue took her world tour she was able to have lunch at a McDonald’s in Tokyo, eat dinner at a Hard Rock Café in Hong Kong, purchase clothes at a Macy’s in London, and be entertained at a Disney Show in Paris. This homogenization of cultures around the world is called: Reformulation Technological transfer Cultural leveling Cultural lag Cultural diffusion Why do ethnocentric people tend to view other cultures as abnormal? Because other cultures are extremely different from theirs. Because they understand other values and beliefs within the proper cultural context. Because they use their own culture as a standard of judgment. Because they are practicing cultural relativism. Because they are part of a counterculture. According to sociologists, what are signs? Parts of material culture that helps direct traffic Ways in which people use their bodies to communicate without words Deeply ingrained norms Ideas about what is desirable Anything designed to meaningfully represent something else When an employee is promoted over the heads of more deserving coworkers because he or she has a special relationship with the boss, this is an example of: The way the culture wars happen The role the high culture in determining status and rank The business of culture The distinction between ideal culture and real culture The importance of cultural capital How is a subculture different from a counterculture? Members of a subculture actively protest and fight to change society, while members of a counterculture drop out of society. Both are distinct from the mainstream, but only members of a subculture actively oppose important aspects of mainstream culture. Subcultures are always smaller than countercultures. Both are distinct from mainstream culture, but a counterculture actively opposes important aspects of the mainstream. Subcultures are not culturally distinct from the mainstream, they just occupy a particular geographic area.