According to Max Weber, _____produced rationality.
a. capitalism
b. Catholicism
c. Judaism
d. Protestantism
Question 2Cultural capital refers to privileges accompanying a social location that help someone in life, such as
a. having to work to help support your family while in school.
b. highly educated parents.
c. parents with a grade-school education.
d. speaking more than one language.
Question 3From Murdock's 1937 cross-cultural survey of 324 societies,
a. men's work was defined the same everywhere.
b. most countries did not distinguish men's work and women's work.
c. women's work was defined the same everywhere.
d. only metallurgy was considered men's work in all of the societies examined.
Question 4Marx believed that the rise of _____ was responsible for tradition giving way to rationality.
a. capitalism
b. socialism
c. traditional societies
d. religion
Question 5After a fairly short plane ride from New York City, Irving found himself on a dusty road with goats, chickens, and motor scooters, rather than cars.
Food, clothing, and carpets were being sold by street vendors, some of whom worked from a cloth spread on the ground, in no order that he could recognize. Irving was experiencing a. ethnocentrism.
b. culture shock.
c. a step back into history.
d. contact with people who shared none of his values.
Question 6In grade schools in Japan, all children in a class
a. study the same page from the same textbook at the same time.
b. work with a state-provided tutor.
c. progress at their individual pace.
d. are required by law to attend a cram school.
Question 7In contemporary Iran, when a woman's parents die, the woman
a. may inherit only half of what her brother inherits.
b. may inherit twice what her brother inherits.
c. can inherit nothing.
d. inherits the parents' debts.
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