Eitzen, In Conflict and Order: Understanding Society, 14th Edition, Test Bank
Chapter Three: Culture
Multiple Choice Questions
TB_Q3.1.1
Defined as cultural patterns that are widespread, _____ constantly shifts as technology advances and as the media
promotes new or different ideas and behaviors.
a. Emergent culture
b. Popular culture
c. Socialization
d. Culturecentrism
Learning Objective: LO 3.1: Understand the characteristics and components of a society’s culture.
Topic/Concept: Culture: The Knowledge That People Share
Difficulty Level: Easy
Skill Level: Remember the Facts
TB_Q3.1.2
Karen is a newborn baby. She does not know anything about her culture yet, but she will learn it quickly through a
process called
a. socialization.
b. internalization.
c. osmosis.
d. appropriation.
Learning Objective: LO 3.1: Understand the characteristics and components of a society’s culture.
Topic/Concept: Culture: The Knowledge That People Share
Difficulty Level: Easy
Skill Level: Apply What You Know
TB_Q3.1.3
Culture is essential to maintain social systems because it provides two crucial functions: stability and
a. socialization.
b. acculturation.
c. predictability of action.
d. operant conditioning.
Learning Objective: LO 3.1: Understand the characteristics and components of a society’s culture.
Topic/Concept: Culture: The Knowledge That People Share
Difficulty Level: Moderate
Skill Level: Remember the Facts
TB_Q3.1.4
Chapter Three: Culture
Which of the following is the process by which society’s demands become part of the individual, acting to
control her or his behavior?
a. Integration
b. Socialization
c. Segmentation
d. Internalization
Learning Objective: LO 3.1: Understand the characteristics and components of a society’s culture.
Topic/Concept: Culture: The Knowledge That People Share
Difficulty Level: Moderate
Skill Level: Remember the Facts
TB_Q3.1.5
One way culture is internalized is by psychological identification with _____ to which the individual belongs or wants
to belong.
a. reference groups
b. social groups
c. belief systems
d. integration systems
Learning Objective: LO 3.1: Understand the characteristics and components of a society’s culture.
Topic/Concept: Culture: The Knowledge That People Share
Difficulty Level: Moderate
Skill Level: Understand the Concepts
TB_Q3.1.6
Traits such as age, sex, race, religion, and social class affect not only the way others perceive individuals but also
the way they
a. perceive others in return.
b. perceive themselves.
c. internalize references.
d. transpose society.
Learning Objective: LO 3.1: Understand the characteristics and components of a society’s culture.
Topic/Concept: Culture: The Knowledge That People Share
Difficulty Level: Moderate
Skill Level: Analyze It
TB_Q3.1.7
Ethnocentrism is defined as a(n)
a. prejudice found among some Christians who consider non-Christians to be evil.
b. universal tendency for people to think of their own culture’s ways as “right” and all others as “wrong.”
c. belief that human beings are divided into fixed races or ethnicities.
d. idea that other cultures have secret wisdom not found in highly developed societies.
In Conflict and Order, 14th edition
Learning Objective: LO 3.1: Understand the characteristics and components of a society’s culture.
Topic/Concept: Culture: The Knowledge That People Share
Difficulty Level: Moderate
Skill Level: Understand the Concepts
TB_Q3.1.8
When school systems were required to teach that the dominant culture was better than other cultures, they were
being told to teach a(n) _____ version of history.
a. evolutionary
b. ethnographic
c. ethnonormative
d. socialized
Learning Objective: LO 3.1: Understand the characteristics and components of a society’s culture.
Topic/Concept: Culture: The Knowledge That People Share
Difficulty Level: Moderate
Skill Level: Apply What You Know
TB_Q3.1.9
_____ was the 19th century belief or doctrine that it was the destiny of the United States to expand its territory over all
of North America.
a. Jim Crow
b. Oriental Exclusion Act
c. Roe v. Wade
d. Manifest destiny
Learning Objective: LO 3.1: Understand the characteristics and components of a society’s culture.
Topic/Concept: Culture: The Knowledge That People Share
Difficulty Level: Moderate
Skill Level: Remember the Facts
TB_Q3.1.10
Some anthropologists and sociologists believe in the importance of _____, the idea that the customs of a society
should not be evaluated by our standards, but evaluated in light of the culture and the functions of those customs for
that society.
a. evolutionary destiny
b. integrative understanding
c. cultural relativism
d. sociological relativity
Learning Objective: LO 3.1: Understand the characteristics and components of a society’s culture.
Topic/Concept: Culture: The Knowledge That People Share
Difficulty Level: Moderate
Skill Level: Understand the Concepts
TB_Q3.1.11
Chapter Three: Culture
What must knowledge be in order for it to affect culture?
a. Accurate
b. Symbolic
c. Normative
d. Shared
Learning Objective: LO 3.1: Understand the characteristics and components of a society’s culture.
Topic/Concept: Culture: The Knowledge That People Share
Difficulty Level: Moderate
Skill Level: Understand the Concepts
TB_Q3.1.12
In their comparison of Hopi and Anglo use of language, Sapir and Whorf demonstrated _____, the idea that
language shapes thought.
a. linguistic relativity
b. cultural relativity
c. language relativism
d. cultural relativism
Learning Objective: LO 3.1: Understand the characteristics and components of a society’s culture.
Topic/Concept: Culture: The Knowledge That People Share
Difficulty Level: Moderate
Skill Level: Remember the Facts
TB_Q3.1.13
_____ refers to the information, techniques, and tools used by people to satisfy their varied needs and desires.
a. Symbology
b. Technology
c. Culture
d. Socialization
Learning Objective: LO 3.1: Understand the characteristics and components of a society’s culture.
Topic/Concept: Culture: The Knowledge That People Share
Difficulty Level: Easy
Skill Level: Remember the Facts
TB_Q3.1.14
When a carpenter builds a table based on the knowledge and skills that she learned from her teachers and
through her own experience, she is drawing on
a. objective culture.
b. cultural ideology.
c. material technology.
d. social technology.
In Conflict and Order, 14th edition
Learning Objective: LO 3.1: Understand the characteristics and components of a society’s culture.
Topic/Concept: Culture: The Knowledge That People Share
Difficulty Level: Moderate
Skill Level: Apply What You Know
TB_Q3.1.15
A citizen who knows how to fill in the correct forms to register to vote and how to vote in an election is using
a. voter education materials.
b. social knowledge.
c. material technology.
d. social technology.
Learning Objective: LO 3.1: Understand the characteristics and components of a society’s culture.
Topic/Concept: Culture: The Knowledge That People Share
Difficulty Level: Moderate
Skill Level: Apply What You Know
TB_Q3.1.16
Which of the following is the correct definition of the term ideologies?
a. Shared beliefs about the physical, social, and metaphysical worlds
b. The knowledge, beliefs, and customs that the members of a social organization share
c. Norms that are viewed as less important and are not severely punished if violated
d. The arrangement of people in order of importance
Learning Objective: LO 3.1: Understand the characteristics and components of a society’s culture.
Topic/Concept: Culture: The Knowledge That People Share
Difficulty Level: Moderate
Skill Level: Understand the Concepts
TB_Q3.1.17
Judy always wears a ballgown to class or football games. Her friends laugh at her because she is violating a(n)
a. college dress code.
b. societal norm.
c. minor law.
d. outmoded dress requirement.
Learning Objective: LO 3.1: Understand the characteristics and components of a society’s culture.
Topic/Concept: Culture: The Knowledge That People Share
Difficulty Level: Moderate
Skill Level: Apply What You Know
TB_Q3.1.18
Chapter Three: Culture
Which of the following is the subdiscipline of sociology that seeks to discover and understand the shared meanings
that implicitly guide social behavior?
a. Ethnosociology
b. Multisociology
c. Ethnomethodology
d. Cultural scriptology
Learning Objective: LO 3.1: Understand the characteristics and components of a society’s culture.
Topic/Concept: Culture: The Knowledge That People Share
Difficulty Level: Moderate
Skill Level: Understand the Concepts
TB_Q3.1.19
Which of the following can be defined as societal norms that are viewed so important that to violate them is to
violate the morals of a society?
a. Norms
b. Values
c. Mores
d. Laws
Learning Objective: LO 3.1: Understand the characteristics and components of a society’s culture.
Topic/Concept: Culture: The Knowledge That People Share
Difficulty Level: Moderate
Skill Level: Understand the Concepts
TB_Q3.1.20
A person’s _____ could be defined as the position that person occupies within any of the many organizations or
institutions to which he or she belongs.
a. value
b. mores
c. couvade
d. status
Learning Objective: LO 3.1: Understand the characteristics and components of a society’s culture.
Topic/Concept: Culture: The Knowledge That People Share
Difficulty Level: Easy
Skill Level: Understand the Concepts
TB_Q3.1.21
Within a group, certain people have high status and corresponding advantages and others have low status and few
advantages, while many are somewhere in between. This arrangement of people in order of importance is called a(n)
a. hierarchy.
b. social ladder.
c. chain of command.
d. affront to democracy.
In Conflict and Order, 14th edition
Learning Objective: LO 3.1: Understand the characteristics and components of a society’s culture.
Topic/Concept: Culture: The Knowledge That People Share
Difficulty Level: Moderate
Skill Level: Understand the Concepts
TB_Q3.1.22
For many people, the fact that President Obama is African American is his _____, the characteristic that has the
greatest significance for social identity.
a. defining quality
b. master status
c. ascribed status
d. achieved status
Learning Objective: LO 3.1: Understand the characteristics and components of a society’s culture.
Topic/Concept: Culture: The Knowledge That People Share
Difficulty Level: Moderate
Skill Level: Apply What You Know
TB_Q3.1.23
Kaitlyn is a 65-year-old white woman and, as such, certain attitudes and behaviors are expected of her in her
small New England town. Those statuses over which she has no control and yet lead others to have certain
expectations of her would be considered her
a. master status.
b. ascribed status.
c. achieved status.
d. role.
Learning Objective: LO 3.1: Understand the characteristics and components of a society’s culture.
Topic/Concept: Culture: The Knowledge That People Share
Difficulty Level: Moderate
Skill Level: Apply What You Know
TB_Q3.1.24
Status that is obtained through accomplishment or occupation is called
a. master status.
b. ascribed status.
c. achieved status.
d. role.
Learning Objective: LO 3.1: Understand the characteristics and components of a society’s culture.
Topic/Concept: Culture: The Knowledge That People Share
Difficulty Level: Moderate
Skill Level: Understand the Concepts
TB_Q3.1.25
Chapter Three: Culture
A person occupying a status in a group is expected to behave according to his or her
a. master status.
b. ascribed status.
c. achieved status.
d. role.
Learning Objective: LO 3.1: Understand the characteristics and components of a society’s culture.
Topic/Concept: Culture: The Knowledge That People Share
Difficulty Level: Moderate
Skill Level: Understand the Concepts
TB_Q3.2.26
When a sociologist uses a questionnaire to ask people what they believe is good, bad, moral, immoral, desirable, or
undesirable, it is possible to have big discrepencies between what the people say and what they actually do. However,
the results will still be a valid indicator of their
a. values.
b. policies.
c. choices.
d. consensus.
Learning Objective: LO 3.2: Explain the factors that lead to both (a) common dominant values in the United States and (b)
disagreement over values in the United States.
Topic/Concept: The Ties That Bind: Cultural Values in the United States
Difficulty Level: Moderate
Skill Level: Analyze It
TB_Q3.2.27
Which of the following is defined as the criteria used in evaluating objects, acts, feelings, or events as to their
relative desirability, merit, or correctness?
a. Standards
b. Values
c. Mores
d. Status
Learning Objective: LO 3.2: Explain the factors that lead to both (a) common dominant values in the United States and (b)
disagreement over values in the United States.
Topic/Concept: The Ties That Bind: Cultural Values in the United States
Difficulty Level: Moderate
Skill Level: Understand the Concepts
TB_Q3.2.28
In Conflict and Order, 14th edition
Mr. Smith sees a homeless man begging on a street corner and angrily tells him to “get a job.” Mr. Smith believes
that his own hard work and continual striving prove that he is favored by God. Mr. Smith is exhibiting
a. countercultural beliefs.
b. cultural relativity.
c. the Protestant ethic.
d. internalization.
Learning Objective: LO 3.2: Explain the factors that lead to both (a) common dominant values in the United States and (b)
disagreement over values in the United States.
Topic/Concept: The Ties That Bind: Cultural Values in the United States
Difficulty Level: Moderate
Skill Level: Analyze It
TB_Q3.2.29
What is the type of success that is most commonly used to measure success in American culture?
a. Community
b. Familial
c. Artistic
d. Economic
Learning Objective: LO 3.2: Explain the factors that lead to both (a) common dominant values in the United States and (b)
disagreement over values in the United States.
Topic/Concept: The Ties That Bind: Cultural Values in the United States
Difficulty Level: Easy
Skill Level: Understand the Concepts
TB_Q3.2.30
In the chapter’s discussion of reality television, the author points out that contest-based shows teach certain life
lessons. Which of the following is NOT one of those lessons?
a. There is only one winner.
b. Ability is more important than personality.
c. Success, fame, and winning are possible without an education.
d. Fame is its own reward.
Learning Objective: LO 3.2: Explain the factors that lead to both (a) common dominant values in the United States and (b)
disagreement over values in the United States.
Topic/Concept: The Ties That Bind: Cultural Values in the United States
Difficulty Level: Moderate
Skill Level: Apply What You Know
TB_Q3.2.31