Cultural Variation Answers

The Arapesh and the Mundugumor were two societies in New Guinea that Margaret Mead conducted a study of cultural variation on in the 1930s.

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Which of the following are not examples of a subculture?

A group that accepts the major values, norms, and practices of the larger society is a subculture sociologists refer to as a counterculture.

The anthropologist that conducted a now-classic study of cultural variation in the 1930s was

Some groups in society share values, norms, and behaviors that are not shared by the entire population. The unique cultural characteristics of these groups form a

Organized crime families and the hippie movement of the 1960s are examples of countercultures in the United States.

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Most subcultures do not reject all of the values and practices of the larger society.

Margaret Mead, in the 1940s, compiled a list of more than 65 cultural universals after examining hundreds of different cultures.

An attitude of cultural relativism is

The tendency to view one’s own culture and group as superior is called

____ help(s) sociologists and anthropologists understand practices that seem strange or different from those of their own culture.

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Cultural universals are