Chapter 1
What is making interaction between people from different cultures increasingly common?
A. communication technology
B. technology
What are the characteristics of culture?
A. dynamic, symbolic, contextual, learned, and has consequence
B. learned, transmitted from generation to generation, based on symbols, and is a dynamic and integrated system
What are the two most common forms of family?
A. nuclear and extended
B. immediate and extended
What affects perception, behavior and how people relate to other cultures?
A. a culture's history
B. a culture's future
What is a culture's orientation toward God, humanity, nature, the universe, life, death, sickness, and other philosophical issues concerning existence?
A. worldview
B. ethics
What are the two major perspectives on ethics?
A. communication and culture
B. fundamentalism and relativism
What is dynamic, symbolic, contextual, learned, and has a consequence?
A. communication
B. culture
What does the family teach?
A. teaching members of the culture about reproduction, economics, socialization, values and religion, identity, and communication
B. gender roles, views on individualism and collectivism, perceptions of aging, and social skills
What provides insight to, and help explain, national character?
A. the past
B. historical events
What is the predominant element of culture from which one's worldview is derived?
A. religion
B. communication
What culture controls the societal institutions - government, education, and social?
A. dominant
B. co-culture
What is a set of human-made objective and subjective elements that in the past have increased the probability of survival and resulted in satisfaction for the participants in an ecological niche, and thus became shared among those who could communicate with each other because they had a common language and lived in the same time and place.
A. culture
B. relativism
What are the key functions families perform in all cultures?
A. teaching members of the culture about reproduction, economics, socialization, values and religion, identity, and communication
B. gender roles, views on individualism and collectivism, perceptions of aging, and social skills
The Spanish conquest and colonization of what country instilled in the native population many cultural traits that endure today?
A. Mexico
B. Colombia
What are the six prominent religious traditions?
A. Christianity, Judaism, Islam, Hinduism, Buddhism, and Confucianism
B. Atheism, Catholicism, Judaism, Hinduism, Islam, Buddhism
A mental state that comes from the transition that occurs when you go from a familiar environment to an unfamiliar one and find that your established patterns of behavior are ineffective.
A. anxiety
B. culture shock
What are the elements that compose culture?
A. learned, transmitted from generation to generation, based on symbols, and is dynamic and integrated system
B. history, values, social organizations, and language
What dimension assesses a culture's tendency to encourage people to be unique and independent or conforming and interdependent?
A. individual-collective
B. nuclear and extended
What has helped shape the Russian national character?
A. geography and a lengthy history of authoritarian rule
B. pride and inspiration
What are the similarities between religions?
A. speculation about the after life
B. speculation about the meaning of life, sacred writings, rituals, and ethics
What focuses on appropriate behavior in interpersonal interactions, both within your own culture and when you are in another culture?
A. ethics
B. fundamentalism
What are the components of communication?
A. source, encoding, messages, channel, receiver, decoding, feedback, and noise
B. religion, history, values, social organizations, and language
What kind of cultures have a view of the world that is rather different from that of cultures that value individualism?
A. individual-collective
B. collective
What was a result of Hindu-Muslim discord that begun hundreds of years earlier?
A. The Spanish Conquest
B. The 1947 Partition of India
What is the fastest-growing of all religions?
A. Islam
B. Christianity