A. adolescence and gender roles varied between societies and so were culturally determined
B. gender roles in three New Guinea societies were identical and so must be biologically determined
C. adolescence in the USA is a time of relative calm compared to the experience in Japan and Europe
D. anthropological fieldwork can be problematic because the researcher’s values affect the way they interpret their observations
Related Mcqs:
- Mead presented the idea that each individual is a composite of expectations one believes others hold toward one Mead named it as_____________?
A. looking glass self
B. Self-perception
C. generalized other
D. None of these - In Symbolic Interactionist Theory Mead defined the generalized other as______________?
A. the group of structural theories of society that he was reacting against
B. the overall impression of ourselves that we try to give off to others
C. a significant figure in early childhood who teaches us the general values of society
D. an image of how people in the wider society might perceive our behavior - According to Mead the socialized self means that_____________?
A. we are constantly learning
B. we are capable of achieving at a maximum capacity
C. we are shaped by the primary agents of socialization in our life
D. we think before we act
E. we have learned enough to function independently - According to Mead the earliest stage of socialization is called the ___________ stage?
A. play
B. maturation
C. game
D. infancy
E. preparatory - Role-learning theory suggests that______________?
A. we internalize and take on social roles from a pre-existing framework
B. we create and negotiate our roles through interaction with others
C. social roles are not fixed or stable but fluid and pluralistic
D. roles have to be learned to suppress unconscious motivations - New-style terrorism differs from the old-style in that______________?
A. it is less predictable than previous manifestations
B. it has ambitions that are global in scope
C. it is rooted in religious ideologies
D. it concerns local territorial disputes - Mass-society theory suggests that______________?
A. the content of the media is determined market forces
B. the subordinate classes are dominated by the ideology of the ruling class
C. the media manipulate the masses as vulnerable passive consumers
D. audiences make selective interpretations of media messages - Critics of the concept of relative poverty argue that______________?
A. it concentrates too much on kinship ties
B. the government should be raising benefit levels
C. in modern affluent societies no one is truly poor
D. it is wrong to make comparisons between countries - One strength of ethnography is that______________?
A. the influence of specific variables can be controlled by the investigator
B. it usually generates richer and more in-depth information than other methods
C. it is essential when a study is primarily historical or has a historical dimension
D. it can only be used to study relatively small groups or communities - Post-modernist writers have argued that______________?
A. we live in a world of superficial fragmented images
B. no theory is better than any other anything goes
C. society has changed, and we need new kinds of theory
D. all of the above
