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Please select the word from the list that best fits the definition

culture

values

folkways

cultural universals

cultural relativism

subculture

society

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An attitude of cultural relativism is

the belief that cultures should not be judged by their own standards.

the belief that cultures should be judged by their own standards rather than by applying the standards of another culture.

the belief that one’s own culture and group is superior to others.

the belief that all cultures can be judged by the same standards.

The physical objects that people create and use form a group’s

nonmaterial culture.

material culture.

language.

values.

____ help(s) sociologists and anthropologists understand practices that seem strange or different from those of their own culture.

Ethnocentrism

Cultural relativism

Cultural universals

Values

The following are examples of nonmaterial culture except

books.

family patterns.

political systems.

work practices.

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