Upon returning home to the U.S. after a long stay overseas, Rene felt like she was going crazy.. She hated American television telling her to buy products in order to be liked. She was experiencing
a. institutional completeness.
b. cultural relativity.
c. reentry shock.
d. cultural transmission.
Question 2__________ are/is the physical, behavioral, and mental or emotional traits believed to be characteristic of females.
a. Secondary sex characteristics
b. Gender
c. Femininity
d. Primary sex characteristics
Question 3An individual who adopts cultural relativism aims to _________ a cultural practice.
a. understand
b. condone
c. discredit
d. praise
Question 4An elementaryage student is asked how his life would be different if he were a girl. He replies, I would have to shave my whole body.. This response implies that he thinks in terms of how his __________ would be different.
a. secondary sex characteristics
b. life chances
c. biological reality
d. primary sex characteristics
Question 5The view that a behavior or way of thinking must be examined in its cultural context is
a. ethnocentrism.
b. cultural relativism.
c. cultural genocide.
d. cultural borrowing.
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