SOCIOLOGY: CULTURAL VARIATION QUIZ (100%)



1.) Organized crime families and the hippie movement of the 1960s are examples of countercultures in the United States.
**Answer**
True.

2.) The tendency to view one’s own culture and group as superior is called
**Answer**
D. Ethnocentrism.

3.) An attitude of cultural relativism is
**Answer**
B. the belief that cultures should be judged by their own standards rather than by applying the standards of another culture.

4.) Most subcultures do not reject all of the values and practices of the larger society.
**Answer**
True.

5.) Margaret Mead, in the 1940s, compiled a list of more than 65 cultural universals after examining hundreds of different cultures.
**Answer**
False.

6.) Which of the following are not examples of a subculture?
**Answer**
C. the Navajo of the Southwest.

7.) A group that shares values, norms, and behaviors that are not shared by the entire population.
**Answer**
F. Subculture.

8.) The anthropologist that conducted a now-classic study of cultural variation in the 1930s was
**Answer**
C. Margaret Mead.

9.) Certain features that are developed to ensure the fulfillment of some needs of society and are common to all cultures.
**Answer**
B. Cultural Universals.

10.) The Arapesh and the Mundugumor were two societies in New Guinea that Margaret Mead conducted a study of cultural variation on in the 1930s.
**Answer**
True.