3.2 Review Questions

QuestionAnswer
A nation’s flag is:
A symbol
A value
A culture
A folkway
The existence of social norms, both formal and informal, is one of the main things that inform ___________, otherwise known as encouraging social conformity.
social control
values
sanctions
mores
The biggest difference between mores and folkways is that
mores are linked to morality, whereas folkways are tied to commonplace behaviors
mores are absolute, whereas folkways are temporary
mores refer to material culture, whereas folkways refer to nonmaterial culture
mores refer to nonmaterial culture, whereas folkways refer to material culture
The notion that people cannot feel or experience something that they do not have a word for can be explained by:
Sapir-Whorf hypothesis
linguistics
Ethnographic imagery
bilingualism
Cultural sanctions can also be viewed as ways that society:
Regulates behavior
Establishes leaders
Determines language
Determines laws

The content of this course has been taken from the free Sociology textbook by Openstax

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