Tenets or convictions that people hold to be true are called?

• A. Beliefs
• B. Values
• C. Cultural Universals
• D. Material culture

Answer: (A)

Beliefs are the propositions about reality that people accept as true. Tenets or convictions that people hold to be true describe exactly what a belief is: cognitive commitments—claims about how the world is or what is real—that individuals or groups take for granted.

Values, by contrast, are standards of what is desirable or morally good; they guide behavior and judgments, but they express what is valued rather than what is believed to be true.

Cultural universals are features that appear across all cultures, not specific claims about truth or belief.

Material culture refers to tangible objects created by a culture, not the ideas people hold.

So the best fit for those statements is beliefs.