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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 →Murdock listed universals including personal names, jokes and:Read the answer and worked solution →A study found an isolated tribe responded to melody. That suggests music is a kind of:Read the answer and worked solution →Comparing societies, which are more common, cultural differences or universals?Read the answer and worked solution →A traveller judges another country by the rules of his own. That attitude is:Read the answer and worked solution →Judging others by your own standards can cause conflict, stereotyping and:Read the answer and worked solution →A researcher judges a community by its own standards, not by his. That practice is cultural:Read the answer and worked solution →Practising cultural relativism first demands an:Read the answer and worked solution →A student believes a foreign culture is better than his own. That belief is:Read the answer and worked solution →The term culture shock was first coined in 1960 by the anthropologist:Read the answer and worked solution →Withholding approval to discourage an unwanted act is a form of social:Read the answer and worked solution →Behaviours reflecting what a society calls good and right are called:Read the answer and worked solution →Written, established rules that exist in every society are called:Read the answer and worked solution →Casual everyday behaviours that most people follow without written rules are:Read the answer and worked solution →Children pick up unwritten rules by socialisation, imitation and:Read the answer and worked solution →Norms split further into two classes: folkways and:Read the answer and worked solution →Norms that carry the moral views and principles of a group are called:Read the answer and worked solution →Norms with no moral weight that guide daily habits are called:Read the answer and worked solution →Cosplayers form a smaller cultural group inside a larger one. That is a:Read the answer and worked solution →Catch the culture termsRead the answer and worked solution →Pop the touchable cultureRead the answer and worked solution →Run the culture gatesRead the answer and worked solution →Slice the sociology wordsRead the answer and worked solution →Written or unwrittenRead the answer and worked solution →Sort the culture ideasRead the answer and worked solution →Type the numberRead the answer and worked solution →Culture bingoRead 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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