Question: The employees of Indian call centers can be considered

Answer: a subculture

Question: Beth travels from New York to Africa and is introduced to living in a dirt-floored hut while she works digging canals for a service trip. It is safe to say she would be experiencing

Answer: culture shock

Question: General customs and practices that are found in every culture are called

Answer: cultural universals

Question: Collective conceptions of what is considered good, desirable, and proper, as well as bad, undesirable, and improper, are known as

Answer: values

Question: An American traveling abroad observes locals eating chocolate covered crickets. She expresses disgust to her traveling companions. She is exhibiting

Answer: ethnocentrism

Question: Invention is the

Answer: combination of existing cultural items into a form that did not previously exist.

Question: English-speaking people in the U.S. commonly use words whose origins are from various African, Asian, and non-English-speaking European cultures. This is an example of

Answer: cultural diffusion

Question: Culture shock is

Answer: the feeling of surprise that is experienced when people witness cultural practices different from their own.

Question: Viewing people’s behavior from the perspective of their own culture is known as cultural relativism. (True/False)

Answer: True

Question: Which sociologist coined the phrase “the McDonaldization of society?”

Answer: George Ritzer