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Culture

Academic Paper Summary by: DrKUTTIMSU     

Original Author: Dr.C.S.Rangarajan

51. The concept of 'cultural lag' is associated with whose name? 
a) MacIver (b) Specer

(c) Krober (d) Ogburn.
52. A period of maladjustment during which material and non-material elements of culture keep differential pace is called     a) Culturl shock
 (b) Cultural relativism (c) Culture bound syndrome (d) Cultural lag.
53. The term 'cultural lag' refers to (a) Material Culture (b) Non-material culture (c) Material culture and non-material culture (d) Hiatus between material and non-material culture.
54. 'Cultural lag' arises because of (a) People object to new inventions
b) Some race lack inventive genius (c) Some societies are more backward than others. (d) Technology changes more rapidly than values.
55. A decrease of adjustment between two correlated parts of culture that results from one part changing faster than the other part is called
a) Cultural borrowing (b) Cultural trait (c) Culture blind (d) Cultural lag.
56. The elements in a society do not change at the same speed or with the same intensity and completeness. This is known as (a) Cultural statics
b) Cultural stagnation (c) Cultural dynamism (d) Cultural lag.
57. A delay between a change in material culture and the adjustment of non-material culture to the change is called (a) Cultural dynamism (b) Cultural pluralism (c) Cultural stagnation (d) Cultural lag.
58. The strain that exists between two correlated parts of cultur which change at unequal rates of speed is called (a) Cultural dynamism
b) Cultural pluralism (c) Cultural stagnation (d) Cultural lag.
59. The nature of growth of material culture bears resemblance  to the compound interest curve: Who said this?
a) Lewis Morgan (b) Stuart Chapin (c) Nimkoff (d) Ogburn.
60. 'Cultural drift' means (a) Change which is slow (b) Change is which is abrupt (c) Change which is planned (d) Change which is unplanned.
61. A sub-culture that rejects societal norms and values and seeks alternative  life-style is called (a) Cultural transmission (b) Cultural travesty
c) Cultural universals  (d) Counter culture.
62. A sub-culture whose values, norms and life-styple are fundamentally  at variance with the dominant culture is called (a) Cultural transmission
b) Cultural travesty (c)  Cultural universals (d) Counter culture.
63. The term ..........is used to designate those groups which differ from prevailing patterns of culture and sharply challenge them. (a) Cultural travesty (b) Counter culture (c) Cultural pluralism (d) Contra culture.
64. The 'hippie' is an example of (a) Counter culture (b) Sub culture
c) Cultural pluralism (d) Contra culture.
65. .......... is a group culture within a larger culture, and its membership is limited to a certain age group in a particular generation of people.
a) Sub culture (b) Counter culture (c) Relative culture (d) Contra culture.
66. A group simply presupposes or inverts the values of the culture in which they are 'inner negative participants'. (a) Sub culture (b) Counter culture (c) Cultural relativism (d) Contra culture.
67. The term ...... refers to the thoughts and actions of people and groups which are simply reactive to the culture in which they are embedded.
a) Sub culture (b) Counter culture (c) Cultural relativism (d) Contra culture.
68. Tendency to view one's own cultural patterns as the only 'right way' is called (a) Cultural universals (b) Cultural pluralism (c) Cultural travesty
d) Culture blind.
69. Incapable of behaving or acting without being influenced by the culture one has experienced is called (a) Cultural universals (b) Cultural pluralism (c) Culture blind (d) Culture bound.
70. The adoption by one culture of practices, behaviours, techniques or products from another culture is called (a) Culture bound (b) Cultural pluralism (c) Cultural  universals (d) Cultural borrowing.
71. Groups in society who hold norms and values different  from the dominant group is (a) Cultural shock (b) Cultural pluralism (c) Cultural
travesty (d) Sub culture.
72. Any segment of population which is distinguishabe  from the wider society by its cultural pattern is (a) Cultural travesty (b) Cultural pluralism
c) Cultural shock (d) Sub culture.
73. Any segment of society which shares a distinctive pattern of mores, folkways and values that differ from the pattern of  of the larger society is called (a) Cultural shock (b) Cultural travesty (c) Cultural pluralism
d) Sub culture.
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NOTE: All (d)s are the  correct answers to questions from 51 to 73.
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Published: May 16, 2009
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