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Test 2, Sp12

True/False

Indicate whether the statement is true or false.

____ 1. Culture is the total way of life of a group of people.

____ 2. Even when sociologists study their own cultures, they often still engage in the process of “othering” the people that they study.

____ 3. When sociologists study culture, they need to emphasize the exceptional and unusual and avoid studying the mundane or everyday.

____ 4. Culture shock is almost never useful in helping sociologists to see that even what is most familiar to us can be bizarre.

____ 5. When we try to understand a culture on its own terms, we are practicing cultural relativism.

____ 6. Cultural relativism and ethnocentrism are extremely similar concepts.

____ 7. Values and norms are symbolic culture in action.

____ 8. Culture wars is a term used to refer to the extreme clashes in values that occur when there are efforts to change core values in society.

____ 9. Cases of children raised in social isolation demonstrate that all people are born with the instincts necessary to fully develop into a functioning human being.

____ 10. According to the symbolic interactionist George Herbert Mead, all children are born with an essential sense of self.

____ 11. According to the symbolic interactionist George Herbert Mead, a distinct sense of self is developed in play through a process of “role-taking,” when young children learn the guidelines and expectations associated with a variety of roles.

____ 12. According to Charles Cooley, there can be no sense of self without society.

____ 13. Most of the time, individuals can count on those around them to support the version of the self that they project.

____ 14. Sociologists argue that no behavior, not even one designed to kill a great number of people, is inherently deviant.

____ 15. Higher crime rates in poor urban areas may not actually be the result of increased criminal behavior.

Multiple Choice

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