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Buses, metro passes and bus stops are objects you can touch. They belong to:Read the answer and worked solution →The ideas, attitudes and beliefs held by a society make up:Read the answer and worked solution →A school building is material culture. The teaching methods inside it are:Read the answer and worked solution →Every human society has some family structure. Such a shared feature is a cultural:Read the answer and worked solution →

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Buses, metro passes and bus stops are objects you can touch. They belong to:

  1. Material culture
  2. Magnetic culture
  3. Mineral culture
  4. Monetary culture
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Correct answer: A. Material culture

1. All the items listed are physical things. 2. Culture that you can touch has one name. 3. That is material culture. _Source: OpenStax Introduction to Sociology 3e, Chapter 3, Culture._

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The ideas, attitudes and beliefs held by a society make up:

  1. Nonmonetary culture
  2. Nonmaterial culture
  3. Nonmagnetic culture
  4. Nonmineral culture
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Correct answer: B. Nonmaterial culture

1. None of these can be picked up. 2. They live in people's minds. 3. That is nonmaterial culture. _Source: OpenStax Introduction to Sociology 3e, Chapter 3, Culture._

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A school building is material culture. The teaching methods inside it are:

  1. Nonmaterial
  2. Nonmagnetic
  3. Nonmineral
  4. Nonmonetary
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Correct answer: A. Nonmaterial

1. Methods cannot be touched or carried. 2. They are ideas about how to teach. 3. So they are nonmaterial. _Source: OpenStax Introduction to Sociology 3e, Chapter 3, Culture._

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