_____ culture consists of activities, products, and services that are assumed to appeal primarily to members of the middle and working classes. These include rock concerts, spectator sports, movies, and television soap operas and situation comedies.
a. Nonmaterial b. Popular
c. High d. Material
Question 2A(n) __________ is an abstract model that describes the recurring characteristics of some phenomenon (such as bureaucracy).
a. symbolic representation
b. ideal type
c. repetitive paradigm
d. archetype
Question 3In the United States, people have a voice in the government through democracy, whereby citizens elect representatives to serve as bridges between themselves and the government.
a. direct participatory
b. representative
c. symbolic
d. independent involvement
Question 4__________ culture consists of classical music, opera, ballet, live theater, and other activities usually patronized by elite audiences, composed primarily of members of the upper-middle and upper classes who have the time, money, and knowledge assumed to be necessary for its appreciation.
a. Ideal
b. Real
c. High
d. Popular
Question 5Which of these sociologists applied ideal type analysis and borrowed from the field of economics to study bureaucracies?
a. Irving Janis
b. Solomon Asch
c. Karl Marx
d. Max Weber
Question 6democracy requires that citizens be able to meet together regularly to debate and decide the issues of the day.
a. Representative
b. Symbolic
c. Direct participatory
d. Independent involvement
Question 7Anthropologist Marvin Harris points out that, from an ethnocentric viewpoint, people in the United States are likely to conclude that cow worship in India is a primary cause of hunger and poverty in that country. At the same time, Harris demonstrates that the Hindu taboo against killing cattle is very important to the economic system in India. His approach illustrates:
a. cultural relativism.b. reverse ethnocentrism.
c. cultural diversity. d. authoritarianism.
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