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Test Bank
Chapter 6: The Sociorelational Context
Multiple Choice
1. Which of the following is an example of an involuntary membership group?
a. age
b. religion
c. occupation
d. education
2. Which of the following is an example of a voluntary membership group?
a. political affiliation
b. sex
c. race
d. family
3. A group whose norms, values, and aspirations shape the behaviors of its members is
called a(n) ______.
a. out-group
b. voluntary nonmembership group
c. racial group
d. in-group
4. Reference groups serve which two functions?
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a. membership and nonmembership
b. voluntary and involuntary
c. comparative and referent
d. comparative and normative
5. A role which has well-defined, perhaps even contractual behavioral, expectations is
called a(n)______ role.
a. voluntary
b. informal
c. formal
d. membership
6. A role whose behavioral expectations are learned through experience and vary
considerably from person to person is called a(n)______ role.
a. voluntary
b. informal
c. formal
d. membership
7. The total accumulation of our roles constitutes our ______.
a. membership groups
b. social identity
c. role hierarchy
d. voluntary groups
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8. The rank ordering of roles within a culture is called social ______.
a. stratification
b. differentiation
c. cohesion
d. positioning
9. In general, high-context collectivistic cultures possess ______.
a. strict hierarchical role stratification
b. strict social cohesion
c. loose social positioning
d. loose social differentiation
10. The nuclear family is prevalent in most ______cultures.
a. high-context collectivistic
b. low-context collectivistic
c. high-context individualistic
d. low-context individualistic
11. The extended family is prevalent in most ______ cultures.
a. high-context collectivistic
b. low-context collectivistic
c. high-context individualistic
d. low-context individualistic
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12. The difference between sex and gender: sex is ______.
a. learned and gender is biological
b. biological and gender is learned
c. formal and gender is informal
d. informal and gender is formal
13. An important part of marriage in Kenya is the phenomena of bridewealth, in which
______.
a. money or some form of payment is passed from the groom’s family to the bride
b. men prefer to marry only wealthy women
c. money or some form of payment is passed from the bride’s family to the groom
d. none of these
14. Which of the following countries has a compulsory military service requirement for
women and where women constitute a third of all soldiers and just over half of military
officers?
a. Kenya
b. China
c. Mexico
d. Israel
15. According to the Israeli Central Bureau of Statistics, family is defined as two or more
people who share the same household and a ______.
a. woman marries a man of higher status than her
b. man marries a woman of higher status than him
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c. man and woman live together without any legal connection
d. man may have more than one wife at a time
16. A familial phenomenon widely practiced in Kenya is hypergamy which is when a
______.
a. woman marries a man of higher status than her
b. man marries a woman of higher status than him
c. man and woman live together without any legal connection
d. man may have more than one wife at a time
17. While Japanese women enjoy more freedom than they have in the past and are
guaranteed equality under the law, according to researcher Kaori, the modern Japanese
woman’s happiness is______.
a. based on her own needs and wants
b. dependent on marriage
c. tied to her family’s approval
d. dependent on her career choice
18. In India, the socialization processes for boys and girls differ significantly. According
to researcher Laungani, ______.
a. daughters are seen as a blessing because they will take care of parents when they
get old
b. boys are seen as a burden because they are unruly
c. boys are seen as an economic asset
d. daughters are seen as a blessing because beauty is highly valued
19. In Israel, the fundamental religious group Haredi is against equal rights for women.
They prescribe strict rules for how women dress and act. Boys and girls attend separate
schools. Women may not have eye contact with a man who is not her husband. This is
called _____.
a. Hadarat nashim
b. Haredi Law
c. Yated Ne’eman
Multiple Choice
1. SELECT ALL THAT APPLY. Familial role prescriptions differ widely across cultures
about family surnames. Which of the following statement are accurate descriptions?
a. In India, there are only about 200 family names that people use.
b. In South Korea and North Korea, more than half the population uses one of five
family names.
c. In the United States, there are hundreds of thousands of family names.
d. In Bangladesh, surnames signify standing and position in the culture.
2. SELECT ALL THAT APPLY. According to Wang’s monograph, The Storm of a
Divorce, husbands in China want the following from their wives:
a. 92% of them indicated that they wanted a wife who would be aggressive in her
career.
b. 96% of them want a virtuous wife who would do most of the household chores.
c. 50% of them indicated they wanted to help their wives with household chores.
d. 78% of them want their wives to stay home and not have a career.
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True/False
1. Voluntary membership groups are those to which people consciously choose to
belong, including political affiliation and religion, among others.
2. An out-group is a group whose attributes are dissimilar from those of the in-group, or
that opposes the accomplishment of the in-group’s goals.
3. Usually, though not necessarily, voluntary membership in-groups serve as positive
reference groups.
4. Roles prescribe with whom, about what, and how to interact with others.
5. Many individualistic, low-context, and small power distance cultures possess a
relatively strict hierarchical role stratification.
6. Many individualistic, low-context, small power distance cultures profess equality and
minimize role stratification.
7. In collectivistic cultures, familial relations are typically hierarchical and the decision–
making process usually is not democratic.
8. One group to which every human being belongs regardless of culture is determined
by biological sex.
9. Unlike patriarchal societies, in matriarchal cultures, the natural differences between
men and women are acknowledged and respected, but they are not used to create
social hierarchies.
10. Unlike matriarchal societies, in patriarchal cultures the natural differences between
men and women are acknowledged and respected, but they are not used to create
social hierarchies.
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Essay/Short Answer
1. Compare and contrast in-groups and out-groups and how they affect behavior.
2. In all cultures people assume roles. Discuss the relationship between roles and
communication.
3. Choose two cultures and explain how sex and gender roles differ.