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A visitor keeps her metro pass, boards the bus and waits at its shelter. All those physical things are:Read the answer and worked solution →The ideas, attitudes and beliefs a society holds, none of which can be touched, make up its:Read the answer and worked solution →Every society studied finds food, marks birth and treats illness in some way. Such shared elements are called:Read the answer and worked solution →An anthropologist went looking for shared elements across cultures while studying kinship systems. He was:Read the answer and worked solution →A traveller decides a country's eating habits are simply wrong because they differ from home. That judging is:Read the answer and worked solution →A student insists everything about a foreign culture is better than anything at home. That belief is:Read the answer and worked solution →A researcher weighs a custom by the standards of the culture it belongs to, not by her own. That practice is:Read the answer and worked solution →Landing abroad, a visitor is knocked sideways by differences she never expected. That reaction is:Read the answer and worked solution →One country deliberately presses its own values onto another country's way of life. That is cultural:Read the answer and worked solution →The convictions people hold to be true, learned from deeply embedded values, are their:Read the answer and worked solution →Written, established rules exist in every society and can be pointed to in black and white. Those are:Read the answer and worked solution →Casual behaviours that nearly everyone follows are picked up by watching and copying others. Those are:Read the answer and worked solution →Norms that carry a group's moral views and principles are its:Read the answer and worked solution →Norms with no moral weight behind them, such as how people queue, are:Read the answer and worked solution →A group withholds approval until a member falls back into line. Such tools of social control are:Read the answer and worked solution →Cosplayers form a smaller cultural group living inside the larger culture. That group is a:Read the answer and worked solution →A group turns its back on some of the larger culture's norms and values outright. That group is a:Read the answer and worked solution →Knowing the opera repertory is set against knowing the pop charts. The first of the pair is called:Read the answer and worked solution →Sociologists sort cultural change into two kinds. One is innovation, meaning new, and the other is:Read the answer and worked solution →An object or an idea turns up in a society for the very first time. Sociologists call that an:Read the answer and worked solution →Trade knits markets together and nations across regions grow interdependent. That process is:Read the answer and worked solution →Two linguists in the 1920s argued that the language you speak shapes how you see the world. Their claim is:Read the answer and worked solution →Catch what you can touchRead the answer and worked solution →Pop the ways of judgingRead the answer and worked solution →Run the culture gatesRead the answer and worked solution →Slice the norm wordsRead the answer and worked solution →Touch it or think itRead the answer and worked solution →Sort the culture wordsRead the answer and worked solution →Type the numberRead the answer and worked solution →Culture bingoRead the answer and worked solution →

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A visitor keeps her metro pass, boards the bus and waits at its shelter. All those physical things are:

  1. Material culture
  2. Monetary culture
  3. Personal culture
  4. Political culture
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Correct answer: A. Material culture

1. Tokens, buses and shelters can be touched. 2. Physical objects form one half of culture. 3. They are material culture. _Source: OpenStax Introduction to Sociology 3e, Chapter 3, Culture._

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The ideas, attitudes and beliefs a society holds, none of which can be touched, make up its:

  1. Material culture
  2. Nonmaterial culture
  3. Municipal culture
  4. Commercial culture
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Correct answer: B. Nonmaterial culture

1. Nothing here has physical form. 2. It is the other half of culture. 3. It is nonmaterial culture. _Source: OpenStax Introduction to Sociology 3e, Chapter 3, Culture._

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Every society studied finds food, marks birth and treats illness in some way. Such shared elements are called:

  1. Cultural universals
  2. Cultural mores
  3. Cultural taboos
  4. Cultural sanctions
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Correct answer: A. Cultural universals

1. They turn up everywhere. 2. They cluster around survival and shared experience. 3. They are cultural universals. _Source: OpenStax Introduction to Sociology 3e, Chapter 3, Culture._

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