The practice of understanding another culture on its own terms and using its own standards is called ________
a. ethnocentrism.
b. cultural relativism.
c. cultural diffusion.
d. cultural integration.
Answer: b
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A. cohabitation. B. adoption. C. heterogamy. D. endogamy.
Within content analysis, defining the type of unit of analysis clearly has a major impact upon:
a. measuring latent content. b. measuring manifest content. c. determining the ideal types. d. selecting a sampling strategy. e. coding the data
In class systems, categories in the social hierarchy are more clearly and rigidly defined than they are in caste systems
Indicate whether the statement is true or false.
New immigrants differ from past generations of immigrants in that they are:
a. more likely to follow a path of reverse assimilation. b. less likely to follow traditional assimilation patterns. c. more likely to achieve high-income status. d. less likely to adopt English as their primary language.