Lesson 01A.1.2
01A.1.2 Types of culture: subculture, high, popular, global and consumer Quiz: OCR Sociology, Unit 1
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The 20 questions
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Which type of culture is traditionally associated with the elite arts and education?
- Popular culture
- Global culture
- Consumer culture
- High culture
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What term describes culture that is widely accessible to the masses through mass media?
- Popular culture
- Global culture
- High culture
- Subculture
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Which culture type focuses heavily on buying and owning manufactured goods and services?
- Consumer culture
- Subculture
- Folk culture
- High culture
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What is a smaller group within mainstream society with distinct norms and values called?
- Global culture
- Mass culture
- High culture
- Subculture
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Which cultural form features brands, media and commodities shared across international borders?
- Global culture
- Folk culture
- Local subculture
- High culture
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An art critic attending an exclusive opera performance is participating in which type of culture?
- Subculture
- High culture
- Consumer culture
- Popular culture
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Teenagers dressing in a specific style and listening to niche underground music form a what?
- Mass culture
- Subculture
- Global culture
- High culture
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Buying the latest branded smartphone purely for status is an example of participating in what?
- Subculture
- Folk culture
- High culture
- Consumer culture
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Millions of people worldwide watching the same Hollywood blockbuster film exemplifies what?
- Folk culture
- High culture
- Subculture
- Popular culture
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Eating at the same fast-food chain in Tokyo, London and New York represents what process?
- Folk culture
- High culture
- Subculture
- Global culture
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Which concept suggests that cultural boundaries are blurring due to the mixing of high and popular arts?
- Feminism
- Postmodernism
- Marxism
- Functionalism
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Who famously argued that high culture represents civilization whereas popular culture is 'mass culture' trash?
- Talcott Parsons
- Matthau Arnold
- Howard Becker
- Karl Marx
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Which sociological perspective views popular culture as a tool used by capitalists to maintain false consciousness?
- Marxism
- Functionalism
- New Right
- Interactionism
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What term describes the adoption of global products into local cultural practices?
- Glocalisation
- Secularisation
- Polarisation
- Homogenisation
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The process whereby Western cultural products dominate and erode local traditions worldwide is called what?
- Cultural assimilation
- Subcultural resistance
- Cultural imperialism
- Cultural pluralism
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A street art movement that deliberately challenges mainstream aesthetic standards is an example of a what?
- Subculture
- Global culture
- High culture
- Consumer culture
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Visiting a local museum to view rare classical paintings is an engagement with which cultural domain?
- Consumer culture
- Popular culture
- High culture
- Global culture
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Purchasing fast fashion items weekly based on social media influencer trends is driven by what?
- High culture
- Folk culture
- Consumer culture
- Subculture
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Which sociological approach sees shared popular culture as a positive force that creates social solidarity?
- Functionalism
- Marxism
- Feminism
- Interactionism
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What do sociologists call the shared set of values, beliefs and practices that define a specific group?
- Culture
- Genetics
- Biology
- Instincts
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