Answer the following questions in review for our Unit test which covers Culture (ch2) and Social
Movements (ch 21). The word in bold will be used in a word bank that will be used in a bingo game for
our test review.
Culture Chapter 2
1. What is culture and how important is it in our culture?
2. What is the difference between material and non-material culture?
3. Who is William Sumner and what impact has he had on Sociology?
4. What is meant by cultural relativism? Think of one example from our class. IE Movie
5. How do symbolic culture and non-material culture fit together?
6. What are gestures and what do sociologists say about the universality of gestures?
7. How are the following aspects of language linked together: Communication, Symbols, and
Culture.
8. Explain one example in which the author of this text experienced culture shock?
9. What is meant by being ethnocentric?
10. How does the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis affect language?
11. What is a moral holiday? List two examples from the book.
12. List two examples from the book of sub-cultures. Be able to reference them.
13. List two examples of countercultures from the book. Be able to reference them.
14. What makes up a pluralistic society?
15. Who is Robin Williams and define the following US values: Material comfort and efficiency.
16. How are value clusters formed? What are they based on?
17. What is meant by value contradictions and what can it often lead to?
18. What are the four emergent values and what does this mean?
19. What do Sociobiologist mean when they say humans are prisoners of their own genes? (Page
57)
20. What did sociologist William Ogden mean by cultural lag?
21. How does cultural diffusion work? How might this be illustrated in Milwaukee?
22. What occurs when values clash in culture wars?
23. What are the differences between positive and negative sanctions?
24. How do norms shape and alter our behavior? What do they set?
25. What is the difference between ideal and real culture?
26. How did George Murdock affect the study of culture?
27. How can cultural leveling help in understanding similarities within cultures?
28. How is the picture in page 48 a great example of a more?
Collective Behavior and Social Movements Ch 21
29. Discuss what collective behavior is and how it relates to actions such as lynchings.
30. What did Charles Mackay note about country folks behavior in a crowd?
31. What term did Robert Park use to explain the back and forth communication between members
of a group?
32. How does Richard Berk incorporate economics into sociology and the study of crown behavior?
33. What does Herbert Blumer add to the understanding of crowd behavior?
34. Who is Gustave LeBon and how did his study of collective mind help us better understand
crowd behavior?
35. Define what Turner and Killian described as emergent norms. Be able to identify each of their
differences.
36. What is a moral panic and give one example from the book.
37. What is a riot and give one example from the book.
38. What are some of the background conditions that effect why urban riots occur?
39. What is the importance of a precipitating event?
40. How does role extension work and what was the example used in the book to help explain it?
41. Describe what how rumors are created and why they exist.
42. What did psychologist Hadley Cantril state was the reasoning behind the panic behind the War
of the Worlds?
43. What are crazes and what are two examples from the book?
44. What are the different types of social movements? Be able to differentiate which levels they
target.
45. Sociologist Alfred and Elizabeth Lee discusses how propaganda plays a part in social movements.
Be able to understand concepts such as the “Plain Folks” strategy.
46. How does the mass society theory help to explain why people join social movements?
47. How does the Deprivation Theory help to explain why people join social movements?
48. Who is one of the most important gatekeepers in the movement’s success in social movements?
Use the following word bank to complete your Ch2 & 21 Bingo Sheet
Culture
Collective Behavior and Social Movements
Material and Non Material Culture
Collective Behavior
William Sumner
Charles Mackay
Cultural Relativism
Robert Park
Symbolic Culture
Richard Berk
Gestures
Herbert Blumer
Language
Gustave LeBon
Language
Turner and Killian Emergent Norms
Culture Shock
Moral Panic
Ethnocentric
Riot
Sapir Whorf Hypothesis
Urban Riots
Moral Holiday
Precipitating events
Sub Cultures
Role Extension
Robin Williams
Rumors
Value Clusters
War of the Worlds
Value Contradictions
Crazes
Emergent Norms
Types of social movements
Sociobiologist
Alfred and Elizabeth Lee
Cultural Lag
Mass Society Theory
Cultural Diffusion
Deprivation Theory
Culture Wars
Gatekeepers
Positive and Negative Sanctions
Ideal and Real Culture
George Murdock
Cultural Leveling
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