Chapter 3 Vocabulary
Across
- 4. A group of people who inhabit a specific territory and share a common culture
- 6. Theory stating that our idea of reality depends largely on language
- 7. Ideas, knowledge, and beliefs that influence people's behavior
- 10. Norms that have moral dimensions and that should be followed by members of the society
- 13. A group that is part of the dominant culture, but that differs from it in some important respects
- 14. Judging others in terms of one's own cultural standards
- 15. Broad ideas about what is good or desireable shared by people in a society
- 16. The study of how biology influences human behavior
- 21. Ideas about the nature of reality
- 22. Actual behavior patterns of members of a group
- 23. Cultural guidelines that group members claim to accept
- 24. Sanctions imposed by persons given special authority
- 25. Rewards or punishments that can be applied by most members of a group
Down
- 1. The ways in which a culture expresses universal traits
- 2. Groupings of persons who share a social characteristic
- 3. Rewards and punishments used to encourage people to follow norms
- 5. The concrete, tangible items of a culture
- 8. A rule of behavior, the violation of which calls for strong punishment
- 9. A subculture deliberately and consciously opposed to certain central beliefs or attitudes of the dominant culture
- 11. General cultural traits that exist in all cultures
- 12. Norms that lack moral significance
- 17. Innate (unlearned) patterns of behavior
- 18. Automatic reaction to physical stimuli
- 19. A norm that is formally defined and enforced by officials
- 20. Impulse to reduce discomfort