Culture

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Across
  1. 3. The persistence of inequality to people's access to electronic information
  2. 5. A mechanism of social control that enforces norms
  3. 6. The abstract standards in a society or group that define ideal principles
  4. 8. The feeling of disorientation that can come when one encounters a new or rapidly changed cultural situation
  5. 9. The complex system of meaning and behavior that defines the way of life for a given group in society
  6. 10. The beliefs, practices, and objects that are part of every traditions; "low culture"
  7. 11. The pervasive and excessive influence of one culture throughout society
  8. 14. The general standards of behavior adhered to by a group
  9. 16. The type of culture that consists of the tangible objects created in a society
  10. 17. Channels of communication that are available to very wide segments of the population
  11. 18. The type of culture that consists of intangible ideas in a culture, like norms, laws, customs, ideas, and beliefs
  12. 19. The culture of groups whose values and norms of behavior are somewhat different from those of the dominant culture
  13. 20. The delay in cultural adjustments to changing social conditions
  14. 21. A hypothesis that language determines other aspects of culture because language provides the categories through which social reality is defined and perceived
  15. 22. The hypothesis that mass media reflects the values of the general population
  16. 23. The habit of seeing things only from the perspective of your own group
  17. 27. A subculture created as a reaction against the values of the dominant culture
  18. 28. Shared ideas held collectively by people within a given culture
Down
  1. 1. The variety of group experiences that result from the social structure of society
  2. 2. The culture of the most powerful group in a society
  3. 4. A technique for studying human interaction by deliberately disrupting social norms and observing how individuals attempt to restore normalcy
  4. 5. A term used to refer to the vast networks of social interaction that new media has created
  5. 7. The beliefs, practices, and objects shared by only a select few but is highly valued; "high culture"
  6. 9. The idea that something can be understood and judged only in relationship to the cultural context in which it appears
  7. 12. The diffusion of a single culture throughout the world
  8. 13. The specific cultural expectations for how to behave in a given situation
  9. 15. A thing or behavior to which people give meaning
  10. 24. A behavior that brings the most serious sanctions; a forbidden behavior
  11. 25. Cultural resources that are socially designated as being worthy and that give advantages to groups who have them
  12. 26. Strict norms that control moral and ethical behavior