Question

Most cultures have been found to identify laughter as a sign of humor, joy, or pleasure. Likewise, most cultures recognize music in some form. Music and laughter are examples of:
relativism
ethnocentrism
xenocentrism
universalism

Answer 1

The correct answer is D. Universalism

Explanation:

In sociology, the term universalism refers to cultural elements that are shared in multiple cultures rather than different in each culture as proposed by cultural relativism. Although there are more elements that are particular to each culture, there are few ones that are commonly shared by all cultures around the world such as music, laugh, religion as each human group or culture had some form of music, religion and their members use laugh to show joy or similar emotions which implies these elements of culture are global or universal. Therefore, in this case, music and laughter are examples of universalism as these are shared by different cultures or applied universally which is the main principle of universalism.