True/False
Indicate whether the sentence or statement is true or
false.
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Anthropologists
have found no characteristics which all cultures share.
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In humans, the
police and similar institutions are the most important factor in setting the limits of behaviour and
guiding it along predictable paths.
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3.
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Children’s
play has little cultural significance.
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4.
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Humans' major mode
of adaptation enabling them to live effectively in diverse environments is bipedal
locomotion.
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The most important
symbolic aspect of culture is language.
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6.
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Not all learned
behaviour is cultural.
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Culture is simply
observable behaviour within a group.
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8.
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A society may
contain more than one cultural group.
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Everyone within a
culture is likely to share the same opinions and values
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10.
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Most subcultures
within Canadian society have found ways to adapt to Canadian pluralism.
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Multiple Choice
Identify the letter of the choice that best
completes the statement or answers the question.
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Harvey Feit acted
as an adviser to the James Bay Cree ________________. a. | when their subsistence strategy was threatened by garbage trucked in
from Montreal | b. | when their subsistence
strategy was threatened by a hydroelectric project | c. | when their subsistence strategy was threatened by hotel
development | d. | when their subsistence
strategy was threatened by urban migration | e. | when their subsistence strategy was threatened by natural climate
change | | |
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_________________
conducted a pioneering study of exchange in the Trobriand Islands, but failed to recognize the
importance of women’s property exchanges.
a.a. R. Radcliffe-Brown a. | _________________ conducted a pioneering study of exchange in the
Trobriand Islands, but failed to recognize the importance of women’s property
exchanges.
a.a. R. Radcliffe-Brown | b. | Leslie White | c. | Margaret Mead | d. | Bronislaw Malinowski | e. | Gary Palmer | | |
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_______________
re-studied the Trobriands and discovered some of the gaps in Malinowski’s account, while
confirming many aspects of his findings. a. | Margaret Mead | b. | Franz Boas | c. | Annette Weiner
d.a. R. Radcliffe-Brown | d. | _______________ re-studied the Trobriands and discovered some of the
gaps in Malinowski’s account, while confirming many aspects of his
findings. | e. | Edward
Sapir | | |
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Trobriand
women’s wealth consists of ________________. a. | pots | b. | skirts and banana leaves | c. | arm shells and shell necklaces | d. | strings of dogs’ teeth | e. | stone discs | | |
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The natural process
by which organisms achieve a beneficial adjustment to an available environment is called
____________. a. | natural
selection | b. | acculturation | c. | adaptation | d. | assimilation | e. | enculturation | | |
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Which of the
following would not be something a culture needs to do to survive? a. | satisfy the basic needs of those who live by its
rules | b. | provide for its own
continuity | c. | furnish an orderly existence
for the members of its society | d. | promote the self interests of individuals over the needs of a society
as a whole | e. | any of the
above | | |
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The Hutterites
____________________. a. | are rapidly being integrated into the larger Canadian
society | b. | thrive within Canada despite
rejecting many values which most Canadians accept | c. | represent a danger to mainstream Canadian
values | d. | actively seek converts among
other Canadians | e. | maintain a society in which there is no inequality of any
kind | | |
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Which of the
following used to be true in Canada? a. | Husbands could legally beat their wives. | b. | Women could not take out bank loans without a male
co-signer. | c. | Husbands had the legal right
to imprison their wives. | d. | all of the above | e. | both a and b but not c | | |
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The modern concept
of culture was first developed by _____________ toward the end of the nineteenth
century. a. | sociologists | b. | psychologists | c. | historians | d. | physicists | e. | anthropologists | | |
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Sexual
behaviour a. | is natural and has little to
do with culture | b. | is always tightly regulated by culture to the degree that individuals
become frustrated | c. | may be strictly limited by culture or more freely available, but is
always subject to rules | d. | would not happen if culture didn’t require
it | e. | is forbidden outside of
marriage by most of the world’s cultures | | |
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Which of the
following is true of the history of First Nations peoples of Canada? a. | They have rejected most aspects of the wider Canadian
culture. | b. | They lived longer, happier
lives after they took up European style agriculture. | c. | There are few evidences today of distinct First Nations
cultures. | d. | First Nations peoples are
reclaiming their heritage after centuries of disruption. | e. | Relations between Europeans and First Nations people were, almost
always, mutually beneficial. | | |
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The fate of ancient
Mesopotamia reveals that________________. a. | a practice that is adaptive will remain so unless there is outside
interference | b. | adaptive practices sometimes
become maladaptive because of their own effects | c. | people quickly reject maladaptive cultural
practices | d. | practices that increase food
production are always adaptive | e. | people often knowingly introduce maladaptive
practices | | |
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Ethnocentrism_________________. a. | Occurs only in modern Western cultures with European
roots. | b. | Occurs only in hunting and
gathering societies. | c. | Is rarely found in foraging societies, but is common in other types of
society. | d. | Occurs in all
societies. | e. | Occurs mainly in state
societies. | | |
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To avoid making
ethnocentric judgements, anthropologists developed the approach known as
______________. a. | formalism | b. | cultural evolutionism | c. | cultural relativism | d. | egocentrism | e. | socialism | | |
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When
anthropologists attempt to avoid ethnocentrism______________. a. | they are usually successful | b. | they generally give up rather quickly, because ethnocentrism is
inevitable | c. | they sometimes encounter
cultural practices they feel it would be wrong to condone | d. | they usually end up adopting the values of the cultures they study in
place of their own | e. | their informants usually end up adopting the values of the
anthropologist | | |
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"That complex
whole which includes knowledge, belief, art, law, morals, custom and any other capabilities and
habits acquired by man as a member of society," is ____________ definition of
culture.
a.B. Tylor's
b.Malinowski's
c.R. Radcliffe- Brown’s
d.F.C.
Wallace's a. | "That complex whole which
includes knowledge, belief, art, law, morals, custom and any other capabilities and habits acquired
by man as a member of society," is ____________ definition of
culture.
a.B. Tylor's
b.Malinowski's
c.R. Radcliffe- Brown’s
d.F.C.
Wallace's | b. | "That complex whole which
includes knowledge, belief, art, law, morals, custom and any other capabilities and habits acquired
by man as a member of society," is ____________ definition of
culture.
a.B. Tylor's
b.Malinowski's
c.R. Radcliffe- Brown’s
d.F.C.
Wallace's | c. | "That complex whole which
includes knowledge, belief, art, law, morals, custom and any other capabilities and habits acquired
by man as a member of society," is ____________ definition of
culture.
a.B. Tylor's
b.Malinowski's
c.R. Radcliffe- Brown’s
d.F.C.
Wallace's | d. | "That complex whole which
includes knowledge, belief, art, law, morals, custom and any other capabilities and habits acquired
by man as a member of society," is ____________ definition of
culture.
a.B. Tylor's
b.Malinowski's
c.R. Radcliffe- Brown’s
d.F.C.
Wallace's | e. | Leslie
White's | | |
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In anthropology,
the concept of "integration" is defined as ______________. a. | the process that transmits a society's culture from one generation to
the next | b. | the relationships of groups
within a society that hold it together | c. | the tendency for all aspects of a culture to function as an
interrelated whole | d. | the process organisms undergo to achieve a beneficial adjustment to an
available environment | e. | the belief that one's own culture is better integrated than
others | | |
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The “garbage
study” revealed that__________________. a. | people usually told the truth to social
scientists | b. | people are more concerned than
they used to be about waste and pollution | c. | garbage is a major contributor to urban decay | d. | people don’t always behave the way they think they
should | e. | physical evidence is generally
unreliable as an index to culture | | |
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Among the Kapauku
of New Guinea, pigs are cared for by a. | married women | b. | hired labourers | c. | male warriors | d. | old men | e. | children and adolescent boys | | |
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According to Walter
Goldschmidt, a culture can be regarded as successful if_____________. a. | it has a highly developed economy | b. | most of its members go to church or perform other religious
acts | c. | it can offer most of its
members survival and a reasonably fulfilling life | d. | it has a low divorce rate | e. | it encourages individual ambition | | |
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