Robert Bierstedt viewed culture as having three major dimensions. Name and describe them

What will be an ideal response?


The principal dimensions of culture are: ideas, norms, and material culture. Ideas are identified as ways of thinking that organize human consciousness. Norms are defined as accepted ways of doing or carrying out ideas. Material culture refers to the patterns of possessing and using the products of culture.

Sociology

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Researchers have found that exposure to different races, ethnicities, religions, and social classes may in fact lead to exclusion. What idea does this highlight?

A. Exposure to different people or things may heighten the threat level that people feel. B. Exposure to different people or things may heighten inclusive feelings. C. Exposure to different people or things may heighten a group leader’s power. D. Exposure to different people or things may heighten coalition.

Sociology

Generally, when self-injurers found stability and joy in their lives, what did they do in terms of the Internet sites to which they belonged?

a. They stayed on them and helped others in support of trying to get them to desist from self-injurious behavior. b. They switched to different sites, anti-self-injury ones, that preached the problems and concerns of self-injurers. c. They mostly left the self-injury cyber community feeling as if they no longer needed it for support. d. They stayed on the same sites and pretended to still be self-injuring so that members of the community would still accept them.

Sociology

Although Americans are most concerned with __________ crime, the most economically damaging crimes are __________

A) street; corporate B) corporate; white-collar C) white-collar; street D) organized; street

Sociology

Which sociological perspective holds the view that people create their social worlds through interaction and manipulation of symbols?

A. global B. functionalist C. interactionist D. conflict

Sociology