Question

TRUE OR FALSE

Experiencing an unfamiliar culture can generate culture shock.?

Symbols refer to anything that carries meaning that is recognized by people who share a culture.?

Through the use of symbols, people make sense of their surroundings.?

Most people in the United States share the value that everyone should not only have equality of opportunity, but also equality in all aspects of social standing.?

Mores are norms that have great moral significance.?

Values and norms help to define a society’s “ideal culture.”?

Most people participate in numerous subcultures without necessarily becoming very committed to any of them.?

The fact that hip-hop music and the DJ scene were invented in the low-income, African American neighborhoods of New York show that people of all social positions help create U.S. cultural patterns.?

The Harlow studies found that six months of social isolation was sufficient to permanently damage infant rhesus monkeys.?

What we know about the later lives of socially isolated children such as Isabell and Genie supports the findings of the Harlow’s research.?

The “id” in Freud’s work represents the human being’s basic drives, which are unconscious and demand immediate satisfaction.?

Mead’s concepts of the “I” and the “me” are close parallels of Freud’s concepts of the id and the superego.?

A community college is correctly considered to be a good example of a total institution?

Answer 1

·        Experiencing an unfamiliar culture can generate culture shock. True. This is because an interaction with another culture brings one face to face with many cultural elements that one may not be familiar with.

·        Symbols refer to anything that carries meaning that is recognized by people who share a culture. True. Symbols are objects that carry with them a commonly agreed upon meaning.

·        Through the use of symbols, people make sense of their surroundings. True. Since symbols have commonly understood meanings, they are an important means of communication between people.

·        Most people in the United States share the value that everyone should not only have equality of opportunity, but also equality in all aspects of social standing. False. Research and studies conducted in this area report otherwise.

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