Culture
Across
- 2. A context of social relations (e.g., a profession, a community) where a particular kind of cultural capital is exchanged.
- 3. Aspect of culture that includes beliefs, values, norms, and language.
- 5. Creating and maintaining symbolic boundaries to limit group membership and access to resources.
- 8. Moral beliefs
- 11. Non-economic cultural resources (e.g., knowledge, skills, behaviors) attuned to a particular sphere of social life.
- 12. Rules for group behaviors, informed by values, specifying appropriate and inappropriate activities.
- 14. Members of a dominant culture adopting cultural goods (e.g., ideas, symbols, skills, cultural expressions, intellectual property) of other cultural groups for profit.
- 17. A group that uses alternative symbolic and material cultural goods to distinguish themselves from the wider society.
- 21. Imposition of a dominant group’s material and symbolic culture onto another group.
- 22. Routinized and highly important group activities.
- 23. Cultural goods made for and enjoyed by elite groups.
- 24. Gaining prestige by exhibiting valuable cultural goods.
- 25. Everything we make and consume, including ideas, attitudes, traditions, and practices.
Down
- 1. A set of images and words that represent a particular culture.
- 4. Physical goods, not necessarily essentials, often placed within an economic system.
- 6. Conceptual ways people separate each other into groups (e.g., traditions, styles, tastes, classifications).
- 7. Adopting a set of informal rules and manners attuned to a particular setting.
- 9. Collection of people who share similar characteristics that a community has given a certain level of prestige.
- 10. Material or immaterial objects that groups affix meaning to
- 11. Using a stash of beliefs, values, and attitudes that we learn how to deploy based upon the situation at hand.
- 13. Ritzer’s term for the increased rationalization and globalization of culture.
- 15. Heavily produced and commercialized goods made for and consumed by a large audience.
- 16. Corporations supporting cultural institutions in order to improve their reputation.
- 18. A learned disposition, based within the particular social world a person inhabits.
- 19. Weber’s term for capitalism’s trend toward increased calculability, efficiency, predictability, and control.
- 20. A very strongly held and enforced social norm.