SOC Ch2, Ch3, and Ch4
SOC 100, Fall, 2020, Chapter 2 Dr. Smith
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Chapter 2
1. What is culture?
2. What do sociologists mean by culture within us?
3. What is ethnocentrism?
4. What is cultural relativism?
5. What point does Edgerton make in his book Sick Societies?
6. What do you think of the practice of eating brains scooped out of a living monkey?
(‘Cultural Diversity’ box, p. 40).
7. The sociological significance of language is ..... what?
8. What are values?
9. What are norms?
10. Explain ‘Party Cove’ -- the ‘moral holiday place’ in the Lake of the Ozarks.
11. What are folkways?
12. What are mores?
13. What is a taboo?
14. What are subcultures?
15. What are countercultures?
16. What are the 13 U.S. values listed by Henslin?
17. Hensling writes about how ‘Values as Distorting Lenses’. How is the American value of individualism a blinder, according to Henslin?
18. What did George Murdock find regarding ‘cultural universals’?
19. How does ‘sociobiology’ view human behavior?
20. ‘Simply put, ….genes don’t determine people’s behavior. Rather, their influence is…..what?
21. Henslin writes that human behaviors are not controlled by instincts, like the behaviors of pigs and spiders. ‘We humans, in contrast’….. what?
22. ‘Because we humans are not prisoners of our genes, we have developed…….what’