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