Quiz8 Cultural Relativism Sociology Assignment

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Quiz8 Cultural Relativism Sociology Assignment

Quiz8 Cultural Relativism Sociology

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Question 8

1. Tiffany, one of the two Korean-American girls in the K-pop group Girls’ Generation thought she would be able to adjust easily to life in Korea because her parents spoke Korean at home in the U.S. But she found that she had to learn so many little things.  Tiffany was experiencing

a.
cultural relativism.
b.
re-entry shock.

c.
reverse ethnocentrism.

d.
culture shock.
1 points

Question 9

1. Which one of the following scenarios indicates that a bond of mutual expectation has developed between a baby and his or her caretaker?

a.
A baby comes to expect that if it cries, a caretaker will respond.

b.
A baby learns to comfort itself when it feels distress.

c.
A baby sleeps through the night.

d.
A baby cannot tell how its mother will react to its cries.
1 points

Question 10

1. An Israeli soldier remarks “The Palestinian boys would look at you with hatred, such hatred that it reminded me of how the Jews in concentration camps in the Holocaust looked at [the guards]. You are the most evil thing on earth right now…”. Charles Horton Cooley would argue that the guard imagining himself from the perspective of the Palestinian boys represents the dynamics of

a.
“I”.

b.
cognitive development.

c.
“me”.

d.
looking-glass self.
1 points

Question 11

1. In Israel and the Palestinian Territories, Sesame Street airs as Sesame Stories because

a.
there is no word for street in Hebrew or in the Arabic languages.
b.
Sesame Street formed a partnership with the corporation Sesame Stories.
c.
the featured scenes in the program involve Palestinians and Israelis reading stories to one another.

d.
the idea that a neutral street exists where Palestinians and Jews might gather together is not a possibility.
1 points

Question 12

1. A Korean American Catholic Church shares many of the cultural traits of mainstream Catholicism such as a clerical collar worn by priests but its statues of Mary and Jesus have Korean appearance. The Korean American church qualifies as a

a.
secondary group.
b.
subculture.
c.
primary group.

d.
counter culture.
1 points

Question 13

1. People who violate ______________ are usually punished severely – they can be ostracized, institutionalized or condemned to die.

a.
norms
b.
folkways
c.
beliefs
d.
mores
1 points

Question 14

1. American sociologists studying Korean bathhouses would be struck by the

a.
casual interactions between adult men and women.
b.
private nature of the bath.
c.
tense atmosphere.
d.
lack of self-consciousness regarding the body.
1 points

Question 15

1. Nature refers to __________, and nurture refers to _________.
a.
interaction factors; biological factors

b.
learned traits; inborn traits
c.
social capacities; biological potential
d.
genetic factors; social experiences
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