GLST 290 Quiz 2 Language
GLST 290 Quiz 2 Liberty University
GLST 290 Quiz: Language and Systems
- When a person purchases a sandwich at a store and pays cash for it, they engage in
- Code-switching is the same as bilingualism; speaking two different languages.
- Which subsistence strategy requires constant and intensive use of permanent fields for plant cultivation?
- Band-level political organization is most often associated with which subsistence system?
- It is possible to have wealth, but not prestige.
- In some societies, men are expected to perform tasks such as income earning, car repair, and maintenance of home electronics. These expectations are called a
- Within a given language, the rules of syntax never change.
- The notion that women are more emotional than men is a cultural universal.
- The major conflict resolution mechanism used in band societies is
- Structuralists believed that both culture and language have surfaces and deep structures.
- When societies study mobility in various societies, they look primarily at variables such as education, race, religion, sex, and income. What two elements do Anthropologists add?
- The rules of syntax control how people
- Choose the statement that most precisely explains why the word pencil is a symbol.
- Gender socialization is a cultural universal.
- Gender socialization usually begins
- Class is a cultural category describing how people are grouped according to their positions within
- Redistribution involves a centralized authority collecting goods and services, and redistributing them.
- Most societies use a mix of several subsistence strategies.
- A state may or may not be democratic.
- Saying good job! to a co-worker is an example of an informal sanction.
- A cluster of statuses (teacher, student, principal, school board member) are organized around education. This is called
- The Sapir-Whorf hypothesis posits that
- What is the most important reason why some groups practice nomadic pastoralism?
- Even in centralized systems, informal sanctions are still powerful mechanisms for influencing people.
- Who grants authority?
- Which of the following is always an achieved status?
- Which person is most clearly experiencing role strain?
- Official languages have the most coherent grammar of all languages in a society.
- The Roman Empire of Jesus’ time was an example of this kind of political organization.
- Some languages are inherently superior to other languages.
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- Worldview influences what we believe is true, what we value, what we think is best, and what we do.
- If we acknowledge that someone has a different worldview, we must agree with their worldview.
- A person with a Biblical Worldview believes that humans were made by a sovereign, all powerful creator God who knows and loves His creation.
- Worldview answers the question: “what is real?”
- Values answer the question: “what is good?”
- A Biblical Worldview is based on the teachings of popular religious leaders.
- Worldview can be described as “the way we view the world.”
- According to Kwast’s model for describing culture, beliefs are the easiest layer to identify.
- Behavior answers the question: “what is done?”
- According to Kwast’s model, worldview is at the core of culture and it shapes all of the other layers of culture.
- Beliefs answer the question: “what is true?”
- Worldview leads us to believe and value certain things about life and our purpose, and those beliefs and values lead to certain behaviors.
- Culture is more than the behaviors we see.
- We must not engage people with different worldviews.
- According to Kwast’s model, belief is at the core and it shapes all of the other layers of culture.