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A social condition in which values are conflicting weak or absent is called____________?
A. Assimilation
B. Hawthorne affect
C. invasion
D. anomie
Social facts have their independent existence and must be studied likewise Who remarked above when discussing scientific method ?
A. Ibn-e-khaldun
B. Emile Durkheim
C. Auguste Conte
D. None of these
The view of things in which ones won group is superior to others is_____________?
A. Counter Culture
B. Ethnocentrism
C. Xenocentrism
D. None of these
Which sociological perspective emphasizes that ethnocentrism that ethnocentrism serves to maintain a sense of solidarity by promoting group pride ?
A. functionalist perspective
B. conflict perspective
C. interactionist perspective
D. dramaturgical perspective
The psychological stress caused when a person faces rapid cultural change is called_____________?
A. Cultural shock
B. role strain
C. role conflict
D. None of these
Which sociological perspective argues that a common culture serves to maintain the privileges of some groups while keeping others in a subservient position ?
A. functionalist perspective
B. conflict perspective
C. interactionist perspective
D. each of the above
A subculture ?
A. is always at odds with the ways of the larger society
B. is a set of patterned and recurrent aspects of life that appear in all known societies?
C. includes members of a group that participate in the main culture while sharing another culture
D. uses a value-free approach that views people from the perspective of their own culture
The use of language label people can lead to a_______________?
A. self-fulfilling prophecy
B. sense of ethnocentrism
C. cultural lag
D. cultural adaptation
E. development of a subculture
While vacationing in Great Britain you discover that the British drive on the “wrong” side of the road are critical of your United States accent and will not accept dollars in stores You feel disoriented and out of place and thus are experiencing ?
A. xenocentrism
B. the Hawthorne effects
C. the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis
D. culture shock
Diffusion of innovations among the cultures means______________?
A. Travelling of traits and patterns space/territory
B. Transmission of trait complexes time
C. Both A and B
D. None of the above
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