praj-17/QA-MCQ-Open-ended huggingface dataset:
Title: Culture
Context: Although anthropologists worldwide refer to Tylor's definition of culture, in the 20th century "culture" emerged as the central and unifying concept of American anthropology, where it most commonly refers to the universal human capacity to classify and encode human experiences symbolically, and to communicate symbolically encoded experiences socially.[citation needed] American anthropology is organized into four fields, each of which plays an important role in research on culture: biological anthropology, linguistic anthropology, cultural anthropology, and archaeology.

question: Who's definition of culture did anthropologist  accept? 

answer: Tylor's

question: What four fields make up American anthropology which play a vital role on its research of culture? 

answer: biological anthropology, linguistic anthropology, cultural anthropology, and archaeology.

question: In which century did "culture" as a central concept of American anthropology emerge? 

answer: 20th century
Title: Culture
Context: The sociology of culture concerns culture—usually understood as the ensemble of symbolic codes used by a society—as manifested in society. For Georg Simmel (1858–1918), culture referred to "the cultivation of individuals through the agency of external forms which have been objectified in the course of history". Culture in the sociological field can be defined as the ways of thinking, the ways of acting, and the material objects that together shape a people's way of life. Culture can be any of two types, non-material culture or material culture. Non-material culture refers to the non physical ideas that individuals have about their culture, including values, belief system, rules, norms, morals, language, organizations, and institutions. While Material culture is the physical evidence of a culture in the objects and architecture they make, or have made. The term tends to be relevant only in archeological and anthropological studies, but it specifically means all material evidence which can be attributed to culture past or present.

question: Who referred to culture as a cultivation of individuals? 

answer: Georg Simmel

question: What makes up the sociological parts of culture according to Simmel? 

answer: ways of thinking, the ways of acting, and the material objects

question: What does non-material culture refer to? 

answer: non physical ideas

question: The term material culture is only relevant to what? 

answer: archeological and anthropological studies
Title: Culture
Context: Cultural sociology first emerged in Weimar Germany (1918–1933), where sociologists such as Alfred Weber used the term Kultursoziologie (cultural sociology). Cultural sociology was then "reinvented" in the English-speaking world as a product of the "cultural turn" of the 1960s, which ushered in structuralist and postmodern approaches to social science. This type of cultural sociology may loosely be regarded as an approach incorporating cultural analysis and critical theory. Cultural sociologists tend to reject scientific methods,[citation needed] instead hermeneutically focusing on words, artifacts and symbols. "Culture" has since become an important concept across many branches of sociology, including resolutely scientific fields like social stratification and social network analysis. As a result, there has been a recent influx of quantitative sociologists to the field. Thus there is now a growing group of sociologists of culture who are, confusingly, not cultural sociologists. These scholars reject the abstracted postmodern aspects of cultural sociology, and instead look for a theoretical backing in the more scientific vein of social psychology and cognitive science. "Cultural sociology" is one of the largest sections of the American Sociological Association. The British establishment of cultural studies means the latter is often taught as a loosely distinct discipline in the UK.

question: Where did sociology culture stem from? 

answer: Weimar Germany

question: Who was the first to refer to culture as sociology? 

answer: Alfred Weber

question: What do cultural  sociologist tend to reject as key attribute of culture? 

answer: scientific methods
Title: Culture
Context: The sociology of culture grew from the intersection between sociology (as shaped by early theorists like Marx, Durkheim, and Weber) with the growing discipline of anthropology, where in researchers pioneered ethnographic strategies for describing and analyzing a variety of cultures around the world. Part of the legacy of the early development of the field lingers in the methods (much of cultural sociological research is qualitative), in the theories (a variety of critical approaches to sociology are central to current research communities), and in the substantive focus of the field. For instance, relationships between popular culture, political control, and social class were early and lasting concerns in the field.

question: Which three early theorist helped shape sociology of culture? 

answer: Marx, Durkheim, and Weber

question: What were the early concerns for the field of Sociology culture? 

answer: popular culture, political control, and social class

question: What is most of the research into sociological culture ? 

answer: qualitative
Title: Culture
Context: In the United Kingdom, sociologists and other scholars influenced by Marxism, such as Stuart Hall (1932–2014) and Raymond Williams (1921–1988), developed cultural studies. Following nineteenth-century Romantics, they identified "culture" with consumption goods and leisure activities (such as art, music, film, food, sports, and clothing). Nevertheless, they saw patterns of consumption and leisure as determined by relations of production, which led them to focus on class relations and the organization of production.

question: Which scientist was influenced by Marxism in the United Kingdom? 

answer: Stuart Hall (1932–2014) and Raymond Williams (1921–1988)

question: What did Marxist like Stuart Hall and Raymond Williams  they identify culture as? 

answer: consumption goods and leisure activities

question: What made up Leisure activities and goods as viewed by Marxist? 

answer: art, music, film, food, sports, and clothing

question: What led sociologist like Stuart and Raymond to focus on class relations and the organization of production? 

answer: saw patterns of consumption and leisure
Title: Culture
Context: In the United States, "Cultural Studies" focuses largely on the study of popular culture, that is, on the social meanings of mass-produced consumer and leisure goods. Richard Hoggart coined the term in 1964 when he founded the Birmingham Centre for Contemporary Cultural Studies or CCCS. It has since become strongly associated with Stuart Hall, who succeeded Hoggart as Director. Cultural studies in this sense, then, can be viewed as a limited concentration scoped on the intricacies of consumerism, which belongs to a wider culture sometimes referred to as "Western Civilization" or as "Globalism."

question: In the U.S what does "Cultural Studies" focus largely on in this field? 

answer: popular culture

question: Who first coined the term "Cultural Studies" in the United States? 

answer: Richard Hoggart

question: What was the name of the company founded by Hoggart in 1964? 

answer: Birmingham Centre for Contemporary Cultural Studies or CCCS

question: The CCCS has since been associated with who? 

answer: Stuart Hall
Title: Culture
Context: From the 1970s onward, Stuart Hall's pioneering work, along with that of his colleagues Paul Willis, Dick Hebdige, Tony Jefferson, and Angela McRobbie, created an international intellectual movement. As the field developed it began to combine political economy, communication, sociology, social theory, literary theory, media theory, film/video studies, cultural anthropology, philosophy, museum studies and art history to study cultural phenomena or cultural texts. In this field researchers often concentrate on how particular phenomena relate to matters of ideology, nationality, ethnicity, social class, and/or gender.[citation needed] Cultural studies has a concern with the meaning and practices of everyday life. These practices comprise the ways people do particular things (such as watching television, or eating out) in a given culture. This field studies the meanings and uses people attribute to various objects and practices. Specifically, culture involves those meanings and practices held independently of reason. Watching television in order to view a public perspective on a historical event should not be thought of as culture, unless referring to the medium of television itself, which may have been selected culturally; however, schoolchildren watching television after school with their friends in order to "fit in" certainly qualifies, since there is no grounded reason for one's participation in this practice. Recently, as capitalism has spread throughout the world (a process called globalization), cultural studies has begun[when?] to analyze local and global forms of resistance to Western hegemony.[citation needed] Globalization in this context can be defined as western civilization in other ways, it undermines the cultural integrity of other culture and it is therefore repressive, exploitative and harmful to most people in different places.

question: Who did Stuart Hall work along side with? 

answer: Paul Willis, Dick Hebdige, Tony Jefferson, and Angela McRobbie

question: What did Stuart and his colleagues create? 

answer: international intellectual movement.

question: In the field that Stuart was working, what did he and his colleagues often concentrate on? 

answer: matters of ideology, nationality, ethnicity, social class, and/or gender

question: Capitalism can be referred to as what process? 

answer: a process called globalization
Title: Culture
Context: In the context of cultural studies, the idea of a text includes not only written language, but also films, photographs, fashion or hairstyles: the texts of cultural studies comprise all the meaningful artifacts of culture.[citation needed] Similarly, the discipline widens the concept of "culture". "Culture" for a cultural-studies researcher not only includes traditional high culture (the culture of ruling social groups) and popular culture, but also everyday meanings and practices. The last two, in fact, have become the main focus of cultural studies. A further and recent approach is comparative cultural studies, based on the disciplines of comparative literature and cultural studies.[citation needed]

question: The idea of text in cultural studies can include what forms other than written language? 

answer: films, photographs, fashion or hairstyles

question: Which two practices have become the main focus in cultural studies? 

answer: high culture (the culture of ruling social groups) and popular culture

question: What makes up cooperative cultural studies?  

answer: based on the disciplines of comparative literature and cultural studies
Title: Culture
Context: Scholars in the United Kingdom and the United States developed somewhat different versions of cultural studies after the late 1970s. The British version of cultural studies had originated in the 1950s and 1960s, mainly under the influence first of Richard Hoggart, E. P. Thompson, and Raymond Williams, and later that of Stuart Hall and others at the Centre for Contemporary Cultural Studies at the University of Birmingham. This included overtly political, left-wing views, and criticisms of popular culture as "capitalist" mass culture; it absorbed some of the ideas of the Frankfurt School critique of the "culture industry" (i.e. mass culture). This emerges in the writings of early British cultural-studies scholars and their influences: see the work of (for example) Raymond Williams, Stuart Hall, Paul Willis, and Paul Gilroy.

question: Around when did the United States and United Kingdom began to develop different versions of cultural studies? 

answer: late 1970s

question: When did the British version of cultural studies emerge? 

answer: 1950s and 1960s

question: Who had influenced cultural studies in the U.K? 

answer: Richard Hoggart, E. P. Thompson, and Raymond Williams, and later that of Stuart Hall

question: Which University did research of cultural studies take place under CCCS? 

answer: the University of Birmingham
Title: Culture
Context: In the United States, Lindlof and Taylor write, "Cultural studies [were] grounded in a pragmatic, liberal-pluralist tradition". The American version of cultural studies initially concerned itself more with understanding the subjective and appropriative side of audience reactions to, and uses of, mass culture; for example, American cultural-studies advocates wrote about the liberatory aspects of fandom.[citation needed] The distinction between American and British strands, however, has faded.[citation needed] Some researchers, especially in early British cultural studies, apply a Marxist model to the field. This strain of thinking has some influence from the Frankfurt School, but especially from the structuralist Marxism of Louis Althusser and others. The main focus of an orthodox Marxist approach concentrates on the production of meaning. This model assumes a mass production of culture and identifies power as residing with those producing cultural artifacts. In a Marxist view, those who control the means of production (the economic base) essentially control a culture.[citation needed] Other approaches to cultural studies, such as feminist cultural studies and later American developments of the field, distance themselves from this view. They criticize the Marxist assumption of a single, dominant meaning, shared by all, for any cultural product. The non-Marxist approaches suggest that different ways of consuming cultural artifacts affect the meaning of the product. This view comes through in the book Doing Cultural Studies: The Story of the Sony Walkman (by Paul du Gay et al.), which seeks to challenge the notion that those who produce commodities control the meanings that people attribute to them. Feminist cultural analyst, theorist and art historian Griselda Pollock contributed to cultural studies from viewpoints of art history and psychoanalysis. The writer Julia Kristeva is among influential voices at the turn of the century, contributing to cultural studies from the field of art and psychoanalytical French feminism.[citation needed]

question: Which two wrote Cultural studies [were] grounded in a pragmatic, liberal-pluralist tradition? 

answer: Lindlof and Taylor

question: From a Marxist view, what did they believe had to be controlled  to essentially control a culture? 

answer: the economic base
Title: Culture
Context: Raimon Panikkar pointed out 29 ways in which cultural change can be brought about. Some of these are: growth, development, evolution, involution, renovation, reconception, reform, innovation, revivalism, revolution, mutation, progress, diffusion, osmosis, borrowing, eclecticism, syncretism, modernization, indigenization, and transformation. Hence Modernization could be similar or related to the enlightenment but a 'looser' term set to ideal and values that flourish. a belief in objectivity progress. Also seen as a belief in a secular society (free from religious influences) example objective and rational, science vs religion and finally been modern means not being religious.

question: How many ways did Raimon Panikkar believed cultural change can be based on? 

answer: 29 ways

question: What is the term used to describe what Modernization could be similar or related to? 

answer: enlightenment

question: What type of society was seen that came from Raimon's 29 ways? 

answer: secular society
Title: Sahara
Context: The Sahara (Arabic: الصحراء الكبرى‎, aṣ-ṣaḥrāʾ al-kubrā , 'the Greatest Desert') is the largest hot desert in the world. It is the third largest desert after Antarctica and the Arctic. Its surface area of 9,400,000 square kilometres (3,600,000 sq mi)[citation needed]—including the Libyan Desert—is comparable to the respective land areas of China or the United States. The desert comprises much of the land found within North Africa, excluding the fertile coastal region situated against the Mediterranean Sea, the Atlas Mountains of the Maghreb, and the Nile Valley of Egypt and Sudan. The Sahara stretches from the Red Sea in the east and the Mediterranean in the north, to the Atlantic Ocean in the west, where the landscape gradually transitions to a coastal plain. To the south, it is delimited by the Sahel, a belt of semi-arid tropical savanna around the Niger River valley and Sudan Region of Sub-Saharan Africa. The Sahara can be divided into several regions, including the western Sahara, the central Ahaggar Mountains, the Tibesti Mountains, the Aïr Mountains, the Ténéré desert, and the Libyan Desert. Its name is derived from the plural Arabic language word for desert (صحارى ṣaḥārā  [ˈsˤɑħɑːrɑː]).

question: What is the third hottest desert in the world? 

answer: The Sahara

question: What is the third largest desert in the world? 

answer: The Sahara

question: What is the surface area of the Sahara Desert? 

answer: 9,400,000 square kilometres (3,600,000 sq mi)

question: What is the hottest desert in the world? 

answer: Sahara
Title: Sahara
Context: The central part of the Sahara is hyperarid, with little to no vegetation. The northern and southern reaches of the desert, along with the highlands, have areas of sparse grassland and desert shrub, with trees and taller shrubs in wadis where moisture collects. In the central, hyperarid part, there are many subdivisions of the great desert such as the Tanezrouft, the Ténéré, the Libyan Desert, the Eastern Desert, the Nubian Desert and others. These absolute desert regions are characterized by their extreme aridity, and some years can pass without any rainfall.

question: What is the central part of the Sahara Desert? 

answer: hyperarid

question: What does the Sahara have little to none of? 

answer: The northern and southern reaches of the desert

question: The northern and southern reaches of the desert are spare of what items? 

answer: grassland and desert shrub

question: What does the Sahara have little of? 

answer: The northern and southern reaches of the desert

question: How often does the Sahara go without rainfall? 

answer: years
Title: Sahara
Context: To the north, the Sahara skirts the Mediterranean Sea in Egypt and portions of Libya, but in Cyrenaica and the Maghreb, the Sahara borders the Mediterranean forest, woodland, and scrub ecoregions of northern Africa, all of which have a Mediterranean climate characterized by hot summers and cool and rainy winters. According to the botanical criteria of Frank White and geographer Robert Capot-Rey, the northern limit of the Sahara corresponds to the northern limit of date palm cultivation and the southern limit of the range of esparto, a grass typical of the Mediterranean climate portion of the Maghreb and Iberia. The northern limit also corresponds to the 100 mm (3.9 in) isohyet of annual precipitation.

question: What sea is North of the Sahara Desert? 

answer: Mediterranean Sea
Title: Sahara
Context: To the south, the Sahara is bounded by the Sahel, a belt of dry tropical savanna with a summer rainy season that extends across Africa from east to west. The southern limit of the Sahara is indicated botanically by the southern limit of Cornulaca monacantha (a drought-tolerant member of the Chenopodiaceae), or northern limit of Cenchrus biflorus, a grass typical of the Sahel. According to climatic criteria, the southern limit of the Sahara corresponds to the 150 mm (5.9 in) isohyet of annual precipitation (this is a long-term average, since precipitation varies annually).

question: What is to the south of the Sahara? 

answer: Sahel

question: What kind of climate does the Sahel have? 

answer: dry tropical

question: What is the long term precipitation average of the Sahara? 

answer: 150 mm
Title: Sahara
Context: The Sahara is the world's largest low-latitude hot desert. The area is located in the horse latitudes under the subtropical ridge, a significant belt of semi-permanent subtropical warm-core high pressure where the air from upper levels of the troposphere tends to sink towards the ground. This steady descending airflow causes a warming and a drying effect in the upper troposphere. The sinking air prevents evaporating water from rising and, therefore, prevents the adiabatic cooling, which makes cloud formation extremely difficult to nearly impossible.

question: What is the world's largest low latitude hot desert? 

answer: Sahara

question: What ares is the Sahara located in? 

answer: horse latitudes

question: What makes it difficult for clouds to form? 

answer: sinking air
Title: Sahara
Context: The permanent dissolution of clouds allows unhindered light and thermal radiation. The stability of the atmosphere above the desert prevents any convective overturning, thus making rainfall virtually non-existent. As a consequence, the weather tends to be sunny, dry and stable with a minimal risk of rainfall. Subsiding, diverging, dry air masses associated with subtropical high-pressure systems are extremely unfavorable for the development of convectional showers. The subtropical ridge is the predominate factor that explains the hot desert climate (Köppen climate classification BWh) of this vast region. The lowering of air is the strongest and the most effective over the eastern part of the Great Desert, in the Libyan Desert which is the sunniest, the driest and the most nearly rainless place on the planet rivaling the Atacama Desert, lying in Chile and Peru.

question: What allows unhindered light and thermal radiation? 

answer: dissolution of clouds

question: What weather is virtually non-existent? 

answer: rainfall

question: Where is the air the strongest? 

answer: eastern part of the Great Desert
Title: Sahara
Context: The rainfall inhibition and the dissipation of cloud cover are most accentuated over the eastern section of the Sahara rather than the western. The prevailing air mass lying above the Sahara is the continental tropical (cT) air mass which is hot and dry. Hot, dry air masses primarily form over the North-African desert from the heating of the vast continental land area, and it affects the whole desert during most of the year. Because of this extreme heating process, a thermal low is usually noticed near the surface, and is the strongest and the most developed during the summertime. The Sahara High represents the eastern continental extension of the Azores High, centered over the North Atlantic Ocean. The subsidence of the Sahara High nearly reaches the ground during the coolest part of the year while it limits to the upper troposphere during the hottest periods.

question: What section of the Sahara's cloud cover are the most   accentuated? 

answer: eastern

question: What is the air mass lying above the Sahara? 

answer: hot and dry

question: What part of the country does the air masses primarily form over? 

answer: North-African desert
Title: Sahara
Context: The effects of local surface low pressure are extremely limited because upper-level subsidence still continues to block any form of air ascent. Also, to be protected against rain-bearing weather systems by the atmospheric circulation itself, the desert is made even drier by his geographical configuration and location. Indeed, the extreme aridity of the Sahara can't be only explained by the subtropical high pressure. The Atlas Mountains, found in Algeria, Morocco and Tunisia also help to enhance the aridity of the northern part of the desert. These major mountain ranges act as a barrier causing a strong rain shadow effect on the leeward side by dropping much of the humidity brought by atmospheric disturbances along the polar front which affects the surrounding Mediterranean climates.

question: What is blocked due to local surface low pressure? 

answer: air ascent

question: What mountain helps enhance the aridity of the desert? 

answer: Atlas Mountains

question: Where are the Atlas Mountains located? 

answer: Algeria