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In the United States, a gang whose members drive big motorcycles they call pigs, wear leather clothes, never bathe and thrive on selling drugs, robbing banks and murder-for-hire, would be called a

A) subculture.
B) ghetto culture.
C) materialistic culture.
D) violent culture.
E) counter culture.

F) A) and B)
G) D) and E)

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Discuss the essential differences between formal and informal sanctions.

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The fact that one can visit McDonald's, Burger King, and Hard Rock Cafe, all over the world is an example of cultural

Culture is frequently divided into two categories: Normative culture and symbolic culture.

McIntyre asserts that symbols are powerful. Explain what a symbol is, and why it is powerful. In your answer, provide at least three examples of symbols-including one symbol that you can justify as being particularly powerful.

The term ideology is simply a fancy word for belief.

According to Karl Marx

A grade of "A"on a sociology exam is a formal sanction.

Each of the following statements about subcultures is true, except:

The elements of culture can be divided into two categories:

As a local farmer, you are fully aware of the fact that nothing other than white wheat has been grown in your area for hundreds of years. However, you decide to break with tradition and plant beans. At the next annual meeting of the Farmer's Grange association, you are awarded a giant stuffed green bean and everyone laughs at you. This is an example of what a sociologist would call

Which of the following statements is FALSE?

Consider the following statements, then indicate which "summary" (given below) is accurate. • Norms are shared guidelines or rules for behavior. • Folkways are "gentle" Norms. • Some form of sanction is attached to every norm. • People who violate norms are subject to negative sanctions. Summaries

This college/university is a good example of what sociologists mean by the term institution.

List two behaviors that violate folkways, two behaviors that violate mores, and two behaviors that violate taboos in your culture. Explain how you know that each behavior is a violation of a norm in the first place, and how you determined that it violates the particular sort of norm that you specified. For example, for the two behaviors that violate folkways, how do you know these are violations of a norm in the first place? Then, how you know they violate folkways and not, for example, mores?

At a formal dinner party, Richard slurped his soup rather too loudly. This action would be described most accurately by a sociologist as a breach of

By definition, idiocultures are larger than subcultures.

Yesterday, you received a letter from Phi Beta Kappa, a national academic honor society. Because you have maintained a 3.95 grade point average, they have invited you to become a member. Should you accept their invitation, you will receive a lapel pin and a certificate of membership (and the opportunity to learn the secret handshake) . This is an example of

According to most sociologists, people's shared ideas about what is real are called cultural

All norms are attached to certain rewards and punishments. Sociologists call these