Quiz 2: Chapters 3 & 4

these are answers purely from the test, make sure to study from the textbook as well.

Use the sociological perspective to explain human behavior.  

Your Answer:

Sociological perspective is looking at human behavior with the context of culture and society around them. For example, social media may be seen as a positive thing to teenagers as a way to keep up to date on the latest trends, but parents may see social media as a distraction because it takes up too much of the teenager's time. 

How is sociology different from psychology?

Sociology studies human interactions, while psychology mostly focuses on an individual.

Which society was the first to have permanent housing?

Horticultural

This society is often labeled as the dawn of civilization because of the development of thoughtful activities, such as music and poetry.

Agricultural

Emile Durkheim’s ideas about society can best be described from a _______________ theorist perspective.

Functionalist

In 1966 sociologists Peter Berger and Thomas Luckmann wrote a book called The Social Construction of Reality.  In it, they argued that society is created by humans and human _____________________, which they called habitualization.  

Interaction

Xenocentrism is the belief that your culture is less than someone else's culture. True or False?

True

The belief that people cannot feel or experience something that they do not have a word for can be explained by ___________________________.

Sapir-Whorf hypothesis

The Amish is an example of what part of culture?

Counterculture

Your eighty-three-year-old grandmother has been using a computer for some time now.  As a way to keep in touch, you frequently send emails of a few lines to let her know about your day. She calls after every email to respond point by point, but she has never emailed a response. This is best described as  _________________________.

Cultural lag

Cultures differ in their values about what kinds of physical closeness are appropriate in public. Former President George W. Bush was photographed holding hands with the Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia in 2005. A gesture, such as hand-holding, carries symbolic differences across cultures. True or false?

True

Formal norms are casual behaviors that are widely conformed to but informal norms are written rules that are established in society. True or False?

False