Diffusion of innovations among the cultures means______________?

Related Mcqs:

1. The nuclear family means______________?

   A. a group of people sharing living accommodation and meals
   B. a network of relatives extended within or between generations
   C. the new family created when an adult leaves home and gets married
   D. a two-generation unit of parents and their-children

2. Sociology comes from a Latin word Socius means______________?

   A. Neighbor
   B. Associate
   C. Friend
   D. None of these

3. Punjabi and Sindhi cultures are_________________?

   A. Subcultures
   B. Counter Cultures
   C. Relative Cultures
   D. None of these

4. The approximately 2 million Native Americans represent a diverse array of cultures distinguishable by_____________?

   A. language
   B. family organization
   C. religion
   D. all of the above

5. Bringing music and movies into Canada from another country would be a good example of __________ diffusion ?

   A. adaptive
   B. relativistic
   C. indirect
   D. direct
   E. integrative

6. Sociologists like Bordo (1993) have attributed the epidemic of anorexia in Western cultures to_____________?

   A. a generally ascetic frugal lifestyle that can be taken to extremes
   B. traditional images of women as emotional domesticated and unassertive
   C. the social construction of mental illness through which normal patterns of behaviour are pathologized
   D. the new ideal of independent self-assured femininity combined with cultural values of achievement and control

7. Which sociological perspective acknowledges that it is not possible to change gender drastically without dramatic revisions in a cultures social structure ?

   A. functionalist perspective
   B. conflict perspective
   C. interactionist perspective
   D. both a and b

8. Sreberny-Mohammadi (1996) argues that national cultures can resist American cultural domination of the media by_____________?

   A. domesticating its content including more home-produced programmes
   B. controlling the distribution of imported products by banning satellite dishes
   C. creating reverse flows of their own programmes back to imperial societies
   D. all of the above

9. Diffusion is a _______ way process?

   A. one
   B. two
   C. three
   D. None of these

10. The division of labor among physicians into obstetricians’ internists surgeons and so forth is an example of the process that Talcott Parsons called_______________?

    A. differentiation
    B. value generalization
    C. inclusion
    D. adaptive upgrading