Causes of Cultural Changes
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Which conditions make new customs and practices more readily adopted in a society?

  • If they are viewed as socially desirable and useful (correct)
  • If they are considered unnecessary for human survival
  • If they clash with existing customs and practices
  • If they are viewed as socially undesirable

    • What tends to produce or accelerate cultural changes?

  • Stability and consistency
  • Lack of contact with other cultures
  • Crisis (correct)
  • Resistance to change

    • Are all cultural changes equally important?

  • No, some cultural changes are more important than others (correct)
  • No, cultural changes are not necessary for human survival
  • Yes, cultural changes are only introduced to satisfy socially acquired needs
  • Yes, all cultural changes are equally important

    • What happens when a change is incorporated into a culture and becomes defined as a 'social necessity'?

    <p>New needs emerge, generating the desire for further changes</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What happens during cultural contact?

    <p>Changes in culture are superimposed on existing culture</p> Signup and view all the answers

    Socialization is

    <p>the process by which people develop their human potential and learn culture</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is enculturation?

    <p>The process by which people obtain values and behaviors appropriate in their culture</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What does socialization prepare people for?

    <p>Teaching them a group's shared norms and values</p> Signup and view all the answers

    How do people learn enculturation?

    <p>By observing other members of their society</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What do norms and values depend on?

    <p>How people process them through socialization</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is the importance of social experience for humans?

    <p>To learn their culture and survive</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is the role of enculturation in society?

    <p>To teach individuals a group's shared norms and values</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What are norms?

    <p>Rules and expectations that guide the behavior of a society's members</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What are values?

    <p>Culturally defined standards that people use to decide what is desirable</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is the difference between social values and individual values?

    <p>Social values have a concern for others' welfare, while individual values are enjoyed or sought by the individual</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What do norms do to social relations?

    <p>Give order to social relations</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is the relationship between norms and individual attitudes?

    <p>Norms influence individual's attitudes</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is the definition of status?

    <p>The relative social position inside a group</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is the difference between achieved status and ascribed status?

    <p>Achieved status is a social position a person takes on voluntarily, while ascribed status is a social position obtained through birth</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is the relationship between status and role?

    <p>Status is the position in the social stratification, while role is what the individual is anticipated to do</p> Signup and view all the answers

    Which response to societal goals involves accepting the goal of success but rejecting the use of legitimate means for achieving that goal?

    <p>Conformity</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What does retreatism mean?

    <p>Withdrawal from society</p> Signup and view all the answers

    When people reject and attempt to change both the goal of success and the means approved by society, it is called:

    <p>Rebellion</p> Signup and view all the answers

    Which response to societal goals occurs when people deemphasize or reject the importance of socially accepted means of achieving success?

    <p>Ritualism</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What does innovation involve?

    <p>Accepting both the cultural goal of success and the means approved by society</p> Signup and view all the answers

    Which response to societal goals involves accepting the goal of success but rejecting the use of legitimate means for achieving that goal?

    <p>Rebellion</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What does retreatism mean?

    <p>Withdrawal from society</p> Signup and view all the answers

    Which response to societal goals occurs when people deemphasize or reject the importance of socially accepted means of achieving success?

    <p>Ritualism</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What does innovation involve?

    <p>Turning instead to unconventional, illegitimate means</p> Signup and view all the answers

    When people reject and attempt to change both the goal of success and the means approved by society, it is called:

    <p>Rebellion</p> Signup and view all the answers

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