Unit 2 Assessment Review

Front

What is the term for a social position that a person earns or chooses, reflecting personal skills, abilities, and efforts?

Back

Achieved status

Front

Which term describes a social position assigned at birth or assumed involuntarily later in life?

Back

Ascribed status

Front

What is the term for a group whose values and norms deviate from or are at odds with those of the dominant culture?

Back

Counterculture

Front

What is the process by which cultural elements are borrowed from another society and incorporated into the culture of the recipient group?

Back

Cultural diffusion

Front

Which concept refers to the practice of assessing a culture by its own standards rather than viewing it through the lens of another culture?

Back

Cultural relativism

Front

What is the term for the shared beliefs, values, and practices that members of a group use to interpret and understand the world?

Back

Culture

Front

Which term describes the culture of the most powerful group in society, which receives the most support from major institutions and constitutes the major belief system?

Back

Dominant culture

Front

What is a social group consisting of two members called?

Back

Dyad

Front

What is the belief in the inherent superiority of one's own ethnic group or culture?

Back

Ethnocentrism

Front

Which theory suggests that social behavior is the result of an exchange process to maximize benefits and minimize costs?

Back

Exchange theory