SOCIOLOGY: CULTURAL VARIATION QUIZ (100%) 1.) Organized crime families and the hippie movement of the 1960s are examples of countercultures in the United States.
**Answer**
True.

2.) The tendency to view one’s own culture and group as superior is called
**Answer**
D. Ethnocentrism.

3.) An attitude of cultural relativism is
**Answer**
B. the belief that cultures should be judged by their own standards rather than by applying the standards of another culture.

4.) Most subcultures do not reject all of the values and practices of the larger society.
**Answer**
True.

5.) Margaret Mead, in the 1940s, compiled a list of more than 65 cultural universals after examining hundreds of different cultures.
**Answer**
False.

6.) Which of the following are not examples of a subculture?
**Answer**
C. the Navajo of the Southwest.

7.) A group that shares values, norms, and behaviors that are not shared by the entire population.
**Answer**
F. Subculture.

8.) The anthropologist that conducted a now-classic study of cultural variation in the 1930s was
**Answer**
C. Margaret Mead.

9.) Certain features that are developed to ensure the fulfillment of some needs of society and are common to all cultures.
**Answer**
B. Cultural Universals.

10.) The Arapesh and the Mundugumor were two societies in New Guinea that Margaret Mead conducted a study of cultural variation on in the 1930s.
**Answer**
True.

Select the correct answer. in this excerpt from "a modest proposal" by johnathan swift, what does the author list? i can think of no one objection, that will possibly be raised against this proposal, unless it should be urged, that the number of people will be thereby much lessened in the kingdom. this i freely own, and 'twas indeed one principal design in offering it to the world. i desire the reader will observe, that i calculate my remedy for this one individual kingdom of ireland, and for no other that ever was, is, or, i think, ever can be upon earth. therefore let no man talk to me of other expedients: of taxing our absentees at five shillings a pound: of using neither cloaths, nor houshold furniture, except what is of our own growth and manufacture: of utterly rejecting the materials and instruments that promote foreign luxury: of curing the expensiveness of pride, vanity, idleness, and gaming in our women: of introducing a vein of parsimony, prudence and temperance: of learning to love our country, wherein we differ even from laplanders, and the inhabitants of topinamboo: of quitting our animosities and factions, nor acting any longer like the jews, who were murdering one another at the very moment their city was taken: of being a little cautious not to sell our country and consciences for nothing: of teaching landlords to have at least one degree of mercy towards their tenants. lastly, of putting a spirit of honesty, industry, and skill into our shop-keepers, who, if a resolution could now be taken to buy only our native goods, would immediately unite to cheat and exact upon us in the price, the measure, and the goodness, nor could ever yet be brought to make one fair proposal of just dealing, though often and earnestly invited to it.a. reforms that had failed to improve ireland's situation b. the unrealistic measures discussed by irish government officials c. viable measures that could improve ireland's situation d. measures that would unify the populace of ireland

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