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In this assignment you will learn about culture, the shared system of beliefs and feelings that guides people's customary behavior as members of society and that gives each society its unity and unique identity.
You will learn to distinguish between ideal and real culture, You will become familiar with the role of feelings such as ethnocentrism in perpetuating people's allegiance to their way of life while inhibiting understanding of other cultures.
You also will learn about culture shock and about the anthropological concept of cultural relatively as an anthropological tool for better understanding the meanings of customs.
Finally you will learn about the two basic approaches anthropologists use to understand cultures: humanistic interpretation of cultures and scientific explanation of cultures.
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Question: the idea that culture is a system that is governed by rules that are not explainable in terms of human biology but that must be studied as a phenomenon in its own right to identify the lawful characteristics that govern cultural processes
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society
culture
subculture
ethnic group
ideology
belief
emotion
attitude
values
morality
etiquette
piety
aesthetics
real culture
ideal culture
acculturation
assimilation
culture shock
ethnocentrism
cultural relativism
super-organic
Question: A regional or social variant of a culture is called a(n) _______________.
Choices:
subculture
ethnic group
minority group
local culture
Question: How are the terms morality and piety related in this text?
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Piety is a form of morality.
Morality is a form of piety.
Morality controls relationships between people, while piety controls relationships with the supernatural.
Both are kinds of beliefs.
Question: Ruth Benedict’s book Patterns of Culture illustrated which of the following:
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Cultures do not differ much in the kinds or amounts of emotions they encourage a people to express.
Cultures differ in the kinds and amounts of emotions they encourage a people to express.
Cultures provide guidelines that mold people’s behavior, but many members in any society deviate from those guidelines.
Cultures encourage emotional reactions to similar situations but cannot control emotional intensity.
Question: Which of the following best characterizes culture?
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Cultures are homogeneously shared by members of society.
Diversity within a culture exists primarily because different specialists require different
"Culture" is really just an abstraction, since each individual has his or her own culture.
Although culture is said to be shared, everyone in a society does not share it equally.
Question: Which of the following is true of belief systems?
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Scientific beliefs are found only in complex societies.
Scientific beliefs are a distinctive trait of western cultures.
All cultures include beliefs that may be characterized as scientific.
Scientific beliefs are simply beliefs that are objectively true.
Question: Which of the following best defines culture?
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the pattern of ideas and feelings of a people and the customs that are related to them.
the pattern of a people’s ideas and the customs based on them
a people’s customs and rules for living, based on a pattern of legal concepts
biologically predetermined behavior patterns
Question: Etiquette is best defined as _______________.
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rules that define good and bad treatment of other people.
rules about religious obligations.
rules that govern manners and define what are considered courteous or civil ways of communicating.
any kind of value.
Question: Which of the following is NOT a cultural universal?
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youthful vitality and health are regarded as sexually attractive.
parents are expected to care for their young.
play and play-fighting function to establish status hierarchies.
a preference among men for women with high social status as mates.
Question: Which of the following is NOT an example of ideological communication?
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small talk
greetings
a lecture on physics
being sworn in before giving testimony in court
Question: According to the text, religious beliefs are _____________.
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not based on real experiences
truths from a higher source
expressions of human feelings
beliefs that are informally organized
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