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INSTRUCTIONS:
a. A situation where the pace of change between symbolic and material culture is
uneven.
b. The state when symbolic culture does not change at all.
c. The phenomenon indicating lesser pace of change in symbolic culture compared to
material one
d. When people actively resist change
a.Cultural- traits
b.Folkways
c. Social norms
d. Mores
a. symbols
b. values
c. beliefs
d. subjects
5) When the researcher asks the respondent a face to face question, this method is
called ________.
a. Interview
b. Questionnaire
c. Observation
d. Profile guide
a. Proletariat
b. Capital
c. Anomie
d. Bourgeoisie
a. Social-conflict
b. Structural- functional
c. Symbolic-interaction
d. Gender- conflict
a. Research questions
b. Interviews
c. Ethnography
d. Surveys
Section B: Essay
Answer any TWO questions. ( 9 marks each )
13b) Discuss, with the use of no less than THREE examples, how cultural
ethnocentrism can be bad as well as good. (7 marks)
14a) List and briefly explain each step of the Scientific Method. One research example
should be used to explain each step. ( 9 marks)
15) Evaluate Karl Marx’s contribution to the concept of Alienation. Discuss different
types of Alienation given by him. (9 marks)
Section B
Question #14
Question #15
Alienation
Karl Marx’s concept of Alienation created in 1844 is a concept in which workers are
faced with the negative consequences of industrial capitalism where they feel foreign
from production created by their labor. This essay will be evaluating Karl Marx’s
contribution to the ideology of Alienation while discussing types of Alienation given by
him.
Karl Marx introduced the idea of alienation in his theory of historical materialism,
which argues that the economic framework of society was the base for all social
relations. Marx defined Alienation as the process by which people lost control over
their own lives and cut themselves off from other people, society in general