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A group of people who share a community and a culture is given which name?Read the answer and worked solution →The objects and belongings of a group of people make up which part of culture?Read the answer and worked solution →Which element of culture sets the standard for what is good and just in a society?Read the answer and worked solution →Established, written rules of behavior are known as which kind of norms?Read the answer and worked solution →Which system of symbols do people use to communicate and to pass culture on?Read the answer and worked solution →Judging another culture by the standards of your own culture is called what?Read the answer and worked solution →A smaller cultural group living inside a larger culture is called what?Read the answer and worked solution →Patterns or traits found in every society on the globe are known as what?Read the answer and worked solution →Which anthropologist first recognized cultural universals while studying kinship systems?Read the answer and worked solution →A traveler who feels disoriented and frustrated by an unfamiliar way of life is going through what?Read the answer and worked solution →Assessing a culture by its own standards rather than through your own is which practice?Read the answer and worked solution →Which norms carry moral weight, so that breaking them brings serious consequences?Read the answer and worked solution →Norms with no moral weight that guide day-to-day manners are called what?Read the answer and worked solution →Values describe an ideal culture. What does real culture describe?Read the answer and worked solution →What separates a counterculture from an ordinary subculture?Read the answer and worked solution →Which sociologist coined the term culture lag?Read the answer and worked solution →What separates a discovery from an invention?Read the answer and worked solution →A student hands in an essay copied from a website and is expelled for it. Which kind of norm was broken?Read the answer and worked solution →An aid agency brings its own farming methods into a region and overlooks local varieties better suited to it. Which practice is that?Read the answer and worked solution →The Sapir-Whorf hypothesis makes which claim about language?Read the answer and worked solution →How would a conflict theorist read a society's cultural norms?Read the answer and worked solution →Which perspective treats culture as created and remade in face-to-face interaction?Read the answer and worked solution →Drop each item into its cultureRead the answer and worked solution →Knock out the false norm claimsRead the answer and worked solution →Spot the one that does not fitRead the answer and worked solution →

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A group of people who share a community and a culture is given which name?

  1. A folkway
  2. A society
  3. A symbol
  4. A sanction
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Correct answer: B. A society

1. Culture and society are close in everyday speech but separate for a sociologist. 2. A culture is the set of beliefs and practices a group holds. 3. A society is the group of people who share that community and culture. _Source: OpenStax Introduction to Sociology 2e (CC BY 4.0), Ch 3 "Culture", Ch 4 "Society and Social Interaction" and Ch 5 "Socialization", section 3.1 What Is Culture?_

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The objects and belongings of a group of people make up which part of culture?

  1. Ideal culture
  2. Popular culture
  3. Real culture
  4. Material culture
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Correct answer: D. Material culture

1. Culture has a side you can touch and a side you cannot. 2. The objects and belongings of a group are its material culture. 3. Ideas, attitudes and beliefs make up nonmaterial culture instead. _Source: OpenStax Introduction to Sociology 2e (CC BY 4.0), Ch 3 "Culture", Ch 4 "Society and Social Interaction" and Ch 5 "Socialization", section 3.1 What Is Culture?_

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Which element of culture sets the standard for what is good and just in a society?

  1. Values
  2. Symbols
  3. Sanctions
  4. Folkways
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Correct answer: A. Values

1. Every culture holds some things up as worth wanting and pushes others away. 2. Values are the standard for discerning what is good and just in a society. 3. Beliefs are the separate convictions people hold to be true. _Source: OpenStax Introduction to Sociology 2e (CC BY 4.0), Ch 3 "Culture", Ch 4 "Society and Social Interaction" and Ch 5 "Socialization", section 3.2 Elements of Culture_

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