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 (C)</p> Signup and view all the answers

What happens during cultural contact?

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

Socialization is

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

What is enculturation?

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

What does socialization prepare people for?

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

How do people learn enculturation?

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

What do norms and values depend on?

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

What is the importance of social experience for humans?

<p>To learn their culture and survive (C)</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 (B)</p> Signup and view all the answers

What are norms?

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

What are values?

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

What do norms do to social relations?

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

What is the relationship between norms and individual attitudes?

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

What is the definition of status?

<p>The relative social position inside a group (C)</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 (D)</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 (C)</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 (A)</p> Signup and view all the answers

What does retreatism mean?

<p>Withdrawal from society (A)</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 (C)</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 (D)</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 (C)</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 (B)</p> Signup and view all the answers

What does retreatism mean?

<p>Withdrawal from society (C)</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 (A)</p> Signup and view all the answers

What does innovation involve?

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

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