Cultural Diversity and Change Quiz

What is the term for cultural patterns that are popular with most people in a society?

• High culture

• Mainstream culture

• Counter-culture

• Subculture

What is the school of thought that re-centers historical and sociological study on the contributions of Africans and African-Americans?

• Ethnocentrism

• Afrocentrism

• Multiculturalism

• Eurocentrism

What is the term for cultural traits spreading from one culture to another?

• Cultural diversity

• Cultural change

• Cultural lag

• Cultural diffusion

What is the role of counter-cultures in society?

• Support mainstream culture

• Promote ethnocentrism

• Maintain the status quo

• Encourage cultural change

What is the term for the practice of judging one culture by the standards of another?

• Multiculturalism

• Cultural diffusion

• Ethnocentrism

• Afrocentrism

What is the perspective that sees society as about the shared reality and shared culture that we create?

• Symbolic interactionism

• Ethnocentrism

• Structural functionalism

• Conflict theory

What is the term for cultural patterns that distinguish a society’s elite?

• Subculture

• Mainstream culture

• Low culture

• High culture

What is the term for cultural patterns that set apart a segment of a society’s population?

• Subculture

• Low culture

• Mainstream culture

• High culture

What is the perspective that believes having a shared culture provides points of similarity that encourage cooperation and help societies function?

• Symbolic interactionism

• Conflict theory

• Structural functionalism

• Ethnocentrism

What is the term for the preference for European cultural patterns?

• Ethnocentrism

• Multiculturalism

• Afrocentrism

• Eurocentrism