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2.2 Cultural Variation Review 2
2.2 analyze factors related to cultural variation
1. ___ includes people who are dissimilar in regard to social characteristics such as nationality, race,
ethnicity, class, occupation, or education
(a) Heterogeneous societies
(b) Homogeneous societies (c) Cultural diversity (d) Subculture
2. ___ is a gap between the technical development of a society and its moral and legal institutions
(a) Cultural Lag
(b) Diffusion
(c) Discovery
(d) Invention
3. ___ is the process of learning about something previously unknown or unrecognized.
(a) Cultural Lag
(b) Diffusion
(c) Discovery
(d) Invention
4. ___ is a group of people who share a distinctive set of cultural beliefs and behaviours that differ in
some significant way from that of the larger society
(a) Counterculture
(b) Culture Shock
(c) Ethnocentrism
(d) Subculture
5. ___ refers to the wide range of cultural differences found between and within nations.
(a) Heterogeneous societies
(b) Homogeneous societies (c) Cultural diversity (d) Subculture
6. ___ is the process of reshaping existing cultural items into a new form.
(a) Cultural Lag
(b) Diffusion
(c) Discovery
(d) Invention
7. ___ includes people who share a common culture and are typically from similar social, religious,
political and economic backgrounds
(a) Heterogeneous societies
(b) Homogeneous societies (c) Cultural diversity (d) Subculture
8. ___ is the transmission of cultural items or social practices from one group or society to another.
(a) Cultural Lag
(b) Diffusion
(c) Discovery
(d) Invention
9. ___ is the tendency to regard one's own culture and group as the standard, and thus superior,
whereas all other groups are seen as inferior
(a) Counterculture
(b) Cultural Relativism
(c) Ethnocentrism
(d) Subculture
10. ___ is a group that strongly rejects dominant societal values and norms and seeks alternative
lifestyles
(a) Counterculture
(b) Culture Shock
(c) Ethnocentrism
(d) Subculture
11. ___ refers to the disorientation that people feel when they encounter cultures radically different
from their own
(a) Counterculture
(b) Culture Shock
(c) Ethnocentrism
(d) Subculture
12. The skinheads are an example of a(n) ___. They are associated with hate crimes and values that
include racial group superiority and the justification of physical violence as a means of expressing
anger toward immigrants, gays and lesbians, people of colour, and Jews.
(a) Counterculture
(b) Culture Shock
(c) Ethnocentrism
(d) Subculture
13. ___ refers to the belief that the behaviours and customs of any culture must be viewed and analyzed
by the culture's own standards
(a) Cultural Diversity
(b) Cultural Lag
(c) Cultural Relativism
(d) Culture Shock
14. The Hutterites are an example of a(n) ___. Their values, norms, and appearance differ from society.
(a) Counterculture
(b) Culture Shock
(c) Ethnocentrism
(d) Subculture