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COMPREHENSION EXERCISES

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I. Reread the text and answer the following questions.

1) How do members of a society learn, transmit and preserve their distinctive culture? 2) Why do you think the study of culture is an important part of contemporary sociological work? 3) What cultural universals do anthropologists consider to be the most common for all human societies? 4) What do cultural universals have in common and what differs them? 5) How do human cultures change and expand? 6) Why do you think sociologists make a useful distinction between elements of material and nonmaterial culture? 7) How can you account for the fact that nonmaterial culture is more resistant to change than material culture?

II. Define the following key terms and memorize the definitions:

society, culture, cultural universals, innovation, discovery, invention, diffusion, material culture, nonmaterial culture.

III. Speak on human culture and Its aspects in brief and illustrate your reports with examples and situations of your own.

IV. Name the cultural universals and comment on them. Why do you think anthropologists have selected these items of human culture as cultural universals?

V. Comment on the statement that culture is the totality of learned, sociallytransmitted behavior.

VI. Give your own examples of innovations (both discoveries and inventions) and diffusions in our daily life.



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COMPREHENSION EXERCISES | Revision Exercises on Unit One | Text III. WHAT IS SCIENTIFIC METHOD? | VOCABULARY PRACTICE | COMPREHENSION EXERCISES | Text IV. RESEARCH DESIGNS FOR COLLECTING DATA. ETHICS OF RESEARCH | VOCABULARY PRACTICE | COMPREHENSION EXERCISES | Revision Exercises on Unit Two | Text V. DEVELOPMENT OF CULTURE |

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