Some anthropologists and sociologists believe in the importance of _____, the idea that the customs of a society should not be evaluated by our standards, but evaluated in light of the culture and the functions of those customs for that society.
a. evolutionary destiny
b. integrative understanding
c. cultural relativism
d. sociological relativity
Question 2_____ was the 19th century belief or doctrine that it was the destiny of the United States to expand its territory over all of North America.
a. Jim Crow
b. Oriental Exclusion Act
c. Roe v. Wade
d. Manifest destiny
Question 3When school systems were required to teach that the dominant culture was better than other cultures, they were being told to teach a(n) _____ version of history.
a. evolutionary
b. ethnographic
c. ethnonormative
d. socialized
Question 4Ethnocentrism is defined as a(n)
a. prejudice found among some Christians who consider non-Christians to be evil.
b. universal tendency for people to think of their own culture's ways as right and all others as wrong.
c. belief that human beings are divided into fixed races or ethnicities.
d. idea that other cultures have secret wisdom not found in highly developed societies.
Question 5Traits such as age, sex, race, religion, and social class affect not only the way others perceive individuals but also the way they
a. perceive others in return.
b. perceive themselves.
c. internalize references.
d. transpose society.
Question 6One way culture is internalized is by psychological identification with _____ to which the individual belongs or wants to belong.
a. reference groups
b. social groups
c. belief systems
d. integration systems
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