| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| An example of high culture is _________, whereas an example of popular culture would be ____________. | Dostoevsky style in film; “American Idol” winners medical marijuana; film noir country music; pop music political theory; sociological theory |
| The Ku Klux Klan is an example of what part of culture? | Counterculture Subculture Multiculturalism pop culture |
| Modern-day hipsters are an example of: | subculture ethnocentricity counterculture high culture |
| Your eighty-three-year-old grandmother has been using a computer for some time now. As a way to keep in touch, you frequently send emails of a few lines to let her know about your day. She calls after every email to respond point by point, but she has never emailed a response back. This can be viewed as an example of: | cultural lag Sapir-Whorf hypothesis Ethnographic imagery bilingualism |
| Some jobs today advertise in multinational markets and permit telecommuting in lieu of working from a primary location. This broadening of the job market and the way that jobs are performed can be attributed to: | globalization cultural lag diffusion discovery |
| The major difference between invention and discovery is: | Discovery involves finding items that already exists, but invention puts things together in a new way Invention is based on technology, whereas discovery is usually based on culture Invention refers to material culture, whereas discovery can be material or theoretic, like laws of physics Invention is typically used to refer to prehistoric objects, whereas discovery refers to local culture |
| McDonald’s restaurants are found in almost every country around the world. What is this an example of? | diffusion globalization culture lag xenocentrism |
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