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Culture

Academic Paper Summary by: DrKUTTIMSU    

Original Author: Dr.C.S.RANGARAJAN

26. All are the processes in human history except one. 
a) Social Process

(b) Civilisation (c) Culture (d) Economic process.
27. ........'the group in interaction' comes first
a) Folkways (b) Mores (c) Culture (d) Society.
28. .........'the process of interaction' comes second.
a) Mores  (b) Society (c) Folkways (d) Culture.
29. Culture is
a) Autonomous (b) Overt (c) Manifest (d) Anonymous.
30. ...................is the foundation of culture.
a) Discovery (b) Invention (c) Diffusion (d) Language.
31. All are the elements of culture except one.
32. For Functionalists, language is an important .............. force.
a) Disintegrative (b) Separatist (c) Emotive (d) Integrative.
33. Conflict theorists look at the use of language as
a) Integrative (b) Emotive (c) Gratifying (d) Divisive.
34. For interactionists, people's reliance on language is for
a) Unification (b) Contact (c) Communication (d) Shared expressions.
35. Established standards of behaviour maintained by a society are called
a) Values (b) Symbols  (c) Ideology  (d) Norms.
36. Cuylture is transmitted from generation to generation next by
a) Family (b) Groups (c) Self-lkearning  (d) Symbols.
37. 'ulture is an abstraction; the reality is human conduct and ..................
a) Behaviour (b) Socialisation process (c) Learning (d) Interaction.
38. The simplest element in culture is the ................
a) Unit  (b) Reify   (c) Artefact   (d) Trait.
39. When traits combine, what they form is called is
a) Simplex (b) Multiplex  (c) Uniplex   (d) Cluster.
40. Functionally inter-related cuuster of traits is called
a) Social heritage (b) Cult  (c) Cultural pluralism  (d) Cultural pattern.
41. Functionally inter-related cluster of traits is called
a) Social heritage (b) Cult  (c) Cultural pluralism  (d) Configuration.
42. The externalisation or physical manifestation of the interaction of human beings is called   (a) Reification        (b) Non-material culture
c) Cultural pattern  (d) Material culture.
43. Which one is external, mechanical and utilitarian in character?
a) Non-material culture (b) Reification (c) Contra culture
d) Civilisation.
44. Precise standard of measurement, upward trend, effortless transmission,
and geometrical progression, among others, are differentiating qualities of
a) Culture (b) Society   (c) Living standards  (d) Civilisation.
45. Which one is internal, possesses intrinsic values, and finds expression in all modes of our living and thinking?
a) Civilisation  (b) Material culture  (c) Reification   (d) Culture.
46. Folkways, mores, and other normative expectations that emerge from
interaction  make up the   (a) Material Culture (b) Culture pattern
c) Reification  (d) Non-material culture.
47. Which of the followingis not a characteristic of culture?
a) The fact that it can be learned  (b) the fact that it assumes a normative quality  (c) the fact that it adapts to forces outside itself (d) the fact that
it is essentially static.
48. Both logically and historically, society ...................culture.
a) Follows   (b) is synonymous with  (c) Determine   (d) Precedes.
49. Which of the following is a part of material culture?
a) Traffic laws  (b) Driving skills (c) Singing music  (d) Automobiles.
50. The tendency to reify culture means
a) to look for it in the minds of people (b) to stressits importance in personality  (c) to judge other cultures in terms of one's own.
d) to endow it with life and treat it as a thing.
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NOTE: All (d)s are the correct answers to questions from 26 to 50.
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Published: May 16, 2009
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