Chapter 3 Sociology Vocab

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Across
  1. 3. groupings of persons who share social characteristics
  2. 4. an automatic response to physical stimuli
  3. 7. ideas, knowledge, and beliefs that influence people’s behavior
  4. 12. a group that is part of the dominant culture but that differs from it in some important respects
  5. 14. the theory stating that our idea of reality depends largely on language
  6. 16. norms that lack moral significance
  7. 17. A norm that is formally defined and enforced by officials
  8. 19. a subculture deliberately and consciously opposed to certain central beliefs or attitudes of the dominant culture
  9. 20. norms that have moral dimensions
  10. 22. the impulse to reduce discomfort
  11. 23. a rule of behavior, the violation of which calls for strong punishment
  12. 24. Judging others in terms of one’s own cultural standards
  13. 25. sanctions imposed by persons given special authority
Down
  1. 1. rewards and punishments used to encourage people to follow norms
  2. 2. the concrete, tangible objects of a culture
  3. 5. general cultural traits that exist in all cultures
  4. 6. broad ideas about what is good or desirable shared by people in a society
  5. 8. a group of people who inhabit a specific territory and share a common culture
  6. 9. innate patterns of behavior
  7. 10. the ways in which a culture expresses universal traits
  8. 11. rewards or punishments that can be applied by most members of a group
  9. 13. actual behavior patterns of members of a group
  10. 15. cultural guidelines that group members claim to accept
  11. 18. ideas about the nature of reality
  12. 21. the study of how biology influences human behavior