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Andersen/Taylor Sociology: The Essentials, 7
edition
CHAPTER 2 WORKSHEET
1. What is culture?
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2. What is cultural relativism and why is it an important perspective?
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3. Does language shape culture or does culture shape language? Explain your answer and be
sure to incorporate the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis into your explanation.
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4. Describe ethnomethodology and explain how it contributes to an understanding of the
normative order.
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