Between 1870 and 1920 Native Americans were sent to boarding schools to ensure total immersion into ...

Between 1870 and 1920 Native Americans were sent to boarding schools to ensure total immersion into white culture and rejection of their own culture. This practice is guided by a position known as
 
  a. reentry shock.
  b. cultural shock.
  c. cultural relativity.
  d. ethnocentrism.

Question 2

The rationale underlying medical intervention to correct intersexed conditions is the belief that
 
  a. doctors, not parents, can make objective decisions.
  b. being intersexed is a disease.
  c. a parent should be able to choose the sex of the baby.
  d. having an intersexed child is a tragic event about which something must be done.

Question 3

According to sociologist Everett Hughes, One can think so exclusively in terms of his or her own social world that he or she has no set of concepts for comparing one social world to the next.. Hughes is describing
 
  a. cultural genocide.
  b. a kind of ethnocentrism.
  c. institutional completeness.
  d. a state of cultural relativity.

Question 4

Breast development is considered a
 
  a. primary sex characteristic.
  b. secondary sex characteristic.
  c. gendered characteristic.
  d. reproductive trait.

Question 5

The tendency to hold one culture as a standard against which the ways of other cultures are judged is
 
  a. cultural relativity.
  b. cultural awareness.
  c. ethnocentrism.
  d. multiculturalism.