What Term Refers to the Dominant Pattern of Living, Thinking

question 58

Multiple Choice

What term refers to the dominant pattern of living, thinking, and believing that is developed and transmitted by people, consciously or unconsciously, to subsequent generations?

• A) social mores
• B) global mindset
• C) collectivism
• D) culture

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Definitions:

Social Realism

An art movement that focuses on depicting social and political conditions realistically, as in the lives of everyday people, often with a critique of the status quo.

Sociology

The study of social behavior, societies, patterns of social relationships, social interaction, and culture that surrounds everyday life.

Material Social Facts

Elements of society that have a physical or material existence, used by Durkheim to describe the objectivity of social phenomena.

Empirically Studied

Investigated or analyzed through observation or experience rather than theory or pure logic.