Sociology- Chapter 2 Study Guide



Vocabulary Questions: Please choose 10 Vocabulary Words from Chapter 2 and write them in the left column. Scramble the definitions in the right column.

|Vocabulary Words |Definitions |

|Subculture |An intensive analysis of a person, group, event or Problem. |

|Ethnocentrism | Extreme self-centeredness |

|Cultural Lag |Exists when a change in one variable is regularly associated with a |

| |change in another variable. |

|Material Culture |Is a commitment to the full development of one’s personality, talents |

| |and potential |

|Society |Formed by the physical objects that people create and use. |

|Folkways |The time between changes, when ideas and beliefs are adapting to new |

| |material conditions. |

|Self-Fulfillment |The tendency to view ones own culture and group as superior. |

|Narcissism |A group of interdependent people who have organized in such a way as |

| |to share a common culture and feeling of unity. |

|Correlation |Do not reject all of the values and practices of a larger society. |

|Case Study |Norms that describe socially acceptable behavior but do not have great|

| |moral significance attached to them. |

Multiple Choice Questions: Please write ten (10) Multiple Choice Questions for chapter 2 using this format.

1. What is Culture?

a. A group of tigers

b. Shared products of Tigers

c. A group of humans

d. All the shared products of human groups

2. What are Norms?

a. Shared rules of conduct

b. Benefits of a culture

c. People of a culture

d. Animals of a culture

3. What is a subculture?

a. A group who rejects all of the dominant cultures values

b. A group that follows all of the values but none of the dominant cultures practices

c. A group that does not reject all of the values and practices of the dominant culture.

d. A group that does not follow any of the dominant cultures practices or values.

4. Which is not an example counterculture?

a. Cyberpunk movement

b. Anarchist

c. Organized Crime Families

d. Emo kids

5. What is Cultural Leveling?

a. The joining of two cultures

b. The separating of two cultures

c. When cultures become more and more alike

d. When cultures become more and more different

6. Out of the following choices which two are Traditional American values?

a. Personal Achievement

b. Community

c. Work

d. Darwinism

7. A person who suffers from Narcissism usually shows extreme _______

a. Self-centeredness

b. Bias

c. Racism

d. Care

8. A hypothesis is

a. A review of existing literature on the topic

b. A recognized problem

c. A statement that predicts the relationship between two or more variables

d. An objective

9. What comes after choosing a research design?

a. Collecting the data

b. Analyzing the data

c. Presenting Conclusions

d. All of the above

10. What is a Variable?

a. A differentiating characteristic between one individual, group or situation.

b. A characteristic shared by more than one individual, group and situation

c. A characteristic that strictly applies to one fixed quantity

d. All of the above

True or False Questions: Please write ten (10) True or False Questions for chapter 2 using this format.

21. The combination of objects and rules is often referred to as technology

True False

22. Values are shared beliefs about what is good or bad, right or wrong, desirable or undesirable

True False

23. All groups create Norms to enforce their religion

True False

24. Folkways are norms that describe socially acceptable behavior

True False

25. Arts and Leisure are examples of Cultural Universals

True False

26. Subcultures Reject all of the values and practices of larger societies

True False

27. Self-Fulfillment is a commitment to the full development of a groups talents and potential

True False

28. Sociologists follow a seven step process when conducting empirical research

True False

29. A correlation occurs when a change in one variable is regularly associated with a change in another variable.

True False

30. In an experiment data is gathered at random conditions.

True False

Answer Key:

1. I

2. G

3. F

4. E

5. H

6. J

7. D

8. B

9. C

10. A

11. D

12. A

13. C

14. D

15. C

16. A and C

17. A

18. C

19. D

20. A

21. True

22. True

23. False

24. True

25. True

26. False

27. False

28. True

29. True

30. False

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