Culture MCQs
Culture MCQs
Try to answer these 30 Culture MCQs and check your understanding of the Culture subject.
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1: What did cultural materialist Marvin Harris argue about the Jewish taboo on pork?
A. It is a way of avoiding diseases such as trichinosis.
B. It is the result of universal mental categories of “clean” and “unclean.”
C. It is a way of signaling devotion to the faith.
D. It is a way of adapting to the ecological conditions of the Middle East.
2: In anthropological terminology, the process of social interaction through which people acquire culture is called ______.
A. Socialization
B. Social learning
C. Symbolic learning
D. Enculturation
3: Contemporary anthropologists note that culture is “contested.” What does this mean?
A. Cultures are involved in an ongoing contest with each other.
B. The existence of culture is not universally agreed upon.
C. People may disagree and struggle over the specifics of culture.
D. Acquiring culture involves passing a number of formal and informal tests.
4: Humans, wolves, and chimpanzees are capable of learning by observing the actions and outcomes of the behavior of others. What is this type of learning called?
A. Symbolic learning
B. Situational learning
C. Social learning
D. Synchronic learning
5: Ethnocentrism is a universal phenomenon.
A. True
B. False
6: According to the text, society is the byproduct of culture.
A. True
B. False
7: According to Brown’s concept of the Universal People, human universals are likely the outcome of ______.
A. The collective unconscious shared by all humankind
B. Theory of mind that allows humans to imagine the internal states of others
C. Cultural diffusion encouraging the rapid spread of cultural behaviors around the world
D. Commonly shared physical and social challenges that all societies face
8: The Shrine of the Virgin of Guadalupe in Mexico City is an example of ______ that is also a powerful symbolic communication.
A. Nonmaterial culture
B. Symbolic culture
C. Material culture
D. Historical culture
9: According to Sir Edward Burnett Tylor’s definition of culture, culture is distinct from our human biological characteristics and genetics.
A. True
B. False
10: Which anthropological concept and method is used to combat ethnocentrism in the study of culture?
A. Cultural diffusionism
B. Cultural relationism
C. Cultural relativism
D. Cultural centrism
11: Beliefs are specific cultural conventions concerning_____ assumptions shared by a particular group.
A. True
B. False
C. Both
D. None
12: Cultural Hegemony is the control over _____ exercised by the dominant group in a society.
A. Beliefs
B. Values
C. Norms
D. All of these
13: Cultural Relativism is the view that cultural traditions must be understood within the context of a particular society’s responses to_____
A. Problems
B. Cultural practices
C. Values
D. All of these
14: Essential behavioral characteristics of humans found in all societies refers to _____
A. Cultural Hegemony
B. Cultural Relativism
C. Cultural Universals
D. Both a and b
15: Culture is a shared way of life that includes_____ products that are transmitted within a society or social group.
A. Material
B. Non material
C. Both
D. None
16: The process of social interaction through which people learn their culture is known as Enculturation.
A. True
B. False
17: Ethnic Group is a group that _____ a culture.
A. Renovates
B. Changes
C. Shares
D. All of these
18: Ethnicity cultural differences among populations, usually based on attributes such as _____ and cultural ideas about common descent or specific territory.
A. Language
B. Religion
C. Lifestyle
D. All of these
19: Norms guiding ordinary usages and conventions of everyday life refer to _____
A. Mores
B. Folkways
C. Ideal culture
D. Real culture
20: Ideal Culture is what people say _____
A. They do
B. They do not
C. They should do
D. Both a and c
21: Ideology means cultural symbols and beliefs that_____ the interests of specific groups within a society.
A. Reflect
B. Support
C. Change
D. Both a and b
22: Non tangible products of human society refers to Material Culture.
A. True
B. False
23: Mores are _____ norms than folkways.
A. Similar
B. Stronger
C. Weaker
D. Both a and b
24: Values, beliefs, and norms are considered in _____
A. Material Culture
B. Non material Culture
C. Both
D. None
25: Shared rules that define how people are supposed to behave under certain circumstances refers to _____
A. Values
B. Ideology
C. Norms
D. Schemas
26: People’s actual behaviors, as opposed to ideal culture is known as_____
A. Final culture
B. Fake culture
C. Real culture
D. Both a and c
27: The mental codification of experience that includes a particular organized way of perceiving cognitively and responding to a complex situation or set of stimuli is known as Schemas.
A. True
B. False
28: Signs are units of meaning that are directly associated with concrete _____ phenomena.
A. Physical
B. Mental
C. Artificial
D. Both a and b
29: Situational Learning is a type of learning in which an organism adjusts its behavior in response to _____ experience.
A. Direct
B. Indirect
C. No
D. Any of these
30: ______ is a type of learning in which an organism observes another organism’s response to a stimulus and then adds that response to its own collection of behaviors.
A. Behavioral Learning
B. Social Learning
C. Situational Learning
D. Both a and b
31: Sty is a group of people who_____
A. Reside within a specific territory
B. Share a common culture
C. Share diverse cultures
D. Both a and b
32: The ability to use and understand symbols is known as_____
A. Signs Learning
B. Situational Learning
C. Symbolic Learning
D. Both a and c
33: Signs are arbitrary units of meaning that can stand for different _____ phenomena.
A. Concrete
B. Abstract
C. Symbolic
D. Both a and b
34: Standards by which a society defines what is desirable and undesirable are known as_____
A. Values
B. Norms
C. Beliefs
D. All of these
35: __________ are judgments about what is intrinsically important or meaningful.
A. Values
B. Taste
C. Culture Wars
D. Symbol
E. Habitu
36: Popular culture is practiced by a diverse and __________ group of people.
A. Small
B. Well-educated
C. Homogeneous
D. Heterogeneous
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