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Understanding Culture, Society, and Politics
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- 1. Multiple ChoiceTrue or False:
Sociology is about how different people can be, but it also tries to find out in what sense it can be said that all humans have something in common.TrueFalse - 2. Multiple ChoiceTrue or False:
Ethnocentrism refers to the evaluation other people’s culture from one’s own vantage-point and describing them in one’s own terms.TrueFalse - 3. Multiple ChoiceTrue or False:
Ethnocentrism and Cultural relativism are both on the same spectrum in viewing culture.TrueFalse - 4. Multiple ChoiceTrue or False:
Anthropology is the comparative study of cultural and social life. Its most important method is participant observation, which consists in lengthy fieldwork in a particular social setting.TrueFalse - 5. Multiple ChoiceTrue or False:
According to St. Augustine of Hippo, state was a necessary evil and that man needs state to guide him to perfection.TrueFalse - 6. Multiple ChoiceTrue or False:
Stoics believe that individuals and communities can exist without any authority ruling over themTrueFalse - 7. Multiple ChoiceTrue or False:
Skeptics believe that affairs of the state were not their business and not worth their attention.TrueFalse - 8. Multiple ChoiceTrue or False
Neo Evolutionism believes that all social institutions thus appear as functional; if they are not functional, they vanish.TrueFalse - 9. Multiple ChoiceTrue or False:
Internet transcends dualisms such as local/global and small scale/large scaleTrueFalse - 10. Multiple ChoiceTrue or False:
Traditions are learned behaviors as well as the beliefs, attitudes, values, and ideals that are characteristic of a particular societyTrueFalse - 11. Multiple ChoiceThis body of knowledge tries to account for the social and cultural variation in the world, it also deals with conceptualizing and understanding similarities between social systems and human relationships.AnthropologyHistoryPoliticsSociology
- 12. Multiple ChoiceSchool of thought in Cultural Anthropology that believes that all cultures undergo the same development stages in the same order.Cultural EvolutionismDiffusionismFunctionalismMaterialism
- 13. Multiple ChoiceA consistent pattern of thoughts, feelings and actions displayed by individuals.ConformityDeviancePersonalitySocialization
- 14. Multiple ChoiceThis refers to the perspective that sees cultures as qualitatively different and have their own unique inner logic, and that it is therefore scientifically absurd to rank them on a scale.Cultural diversityCultural equalityCultural equityCultural relativism
- 15. Multiple ChoiceAristotle and Rousseau consider __________ as the highest of all social organization.ChurchGovernmentSocietyState
- 16. Multiple ChoiceHe believed that "every citizen was part of the state, but not all could rule."AristotleKarl MarxPlatoSt. Augustine
- 17. Multiple ChoiceWhich among the following is not one of the three basic attitudes towards politics?ApathyActive participationIndifferenceRejection
- 18. Multiple ChoiceHe is the scholar who defined politics as any activity involving human beings associated together in relationship of power and authority where conflict occurs.Bernard CrickDavid EastonMichael OakeshottRobert Dahl
- 19. Multiple ChoiceWhich among the following is not a school of thought in Anthropology?CommunismDiffusionismFunctionalismNeo Evolutionism
- 20. Multiple ChoiceIt includes all norm violations, from the trivial to the tragic - from sleeping in class or wearing weird clothes to drowning one’s child and blaming it on a carjacker.CrimeDevianceLawsSubculture
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