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Culture Study Guide
1. What is culture?
2. What is material culture? Nonmaterial culture?
3. What are the five components of culture?
4. What is the difference between Norms, Folkways, Mores, Taboos, and Laws? Give
examples.
5. What is a sanction? What is the difference between formal and informal sanctions?
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6. List the 12 American values identified by Robin Williams (The sociologist, not the
comedian)
7. What is a cultural universal? Give an example.
8. Explain what a value contradiction is and give an example.
9. Explain what internalization is and why it is the most effective form of social control.
10. What is role strain? Give an example.
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11. Give an example of a status and role you have. Is this an achieved or ascribed status?
(explain why) Give a potential role conflict that you face because of this status.
12. What is a subculture? Give an example.
13. What is a counterculture? Give an example.
14. What is the theory of linguistic relativity? Give an example that would support this
theory.
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15. During the Stanford prison experiment the psychologist was talking about the parole
officer and said, “He took on a role, or rather the role took over him.” Explain what he
means by this. What can we learn from this experiment?
16. In 1928 the sociologist W.I. Thomas stated, “If men define situations as real, they are real
in their consequences.” How does the Thomas Theorem relate to the Stanford prison
experiment?
17. How did the social structure of Abu Ghraib prison contribute to the mistreatment of
prisoners?
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18. What are the four functions of sports in society?
19. What is a sport paradox? Give an example.
20. How can sports reflect inequality in society? Give an example.
21. How can sports lead to social change? Give an example.