Across
- 4. Institutionalized norms embedded in laws used to help maintain social control.
- 6. The sum total of the social environment in which we are raised and continue to be socialized throughout our lives.
- 8. (two words) A sense of disorientation and confusion that results when placed in unfamiliar surroundings where aspects of the material and nonmaterial culture are new or unknown.
- 9. (two words) According to Durkheim, a recurring pattern by which people respect norms and follow them, because they have internalized them through early socialization practices.
- 12. Mores that are considered wrong in and of themselves.
- 14. (two words) The first language learned at home in childhood that is still understood by an individual.
- 16. (two words) An ability to understand another culture in its own terms sympathetically enough so that the culture appears to be a coherent and meaningful design for living.
- 17. A type of norm related to rules concerning behaviours we are expected to perform.
- 19. An object, image, or event used to represent a particular concept.
- 20. A form of culture based on intangibles produced by intellectual or spiritual development.
- 23. A type of norm related to rules concerning behaviours we are expected to refrain from doing.
- 25. A term used by sociologists to refer to specific behavioural expectations of any society.
- 26. (two words) Activities shared by the social elite.
- 27. Gestures with direct verbal equivalents.
- 28. A set of ideas that support the needs and views of a particular group.
Down
- 1. Informal norms based on accepted traditions.
- 2. (two words) Someone who consumes elements of both popular and high culture.
- 3. A type of subculture that strongly opposes central aspects of mainstream culture.
- 5. A group that can be differentiated from mainstream culture by its divergent traits involving language, norms, beliefs, or values.
- 7. The tendency to believe that one’s cultural beliefs and practices are superior and should be used as the standard to which other cultures are compared.
- 10. (two words) Common practices shared by all societies.
- 11. A shared system of communication that includes spoken, written, and signed forms of speech as well as nonverbal gestures used to convey meaning.
- 13. (two words) Material indicators of wealth and prestige.
- 15. (two words) Observable social phenomena external to individuals that exercise power over them.
- 18. (two words) Practices engaged in by the majority of people in a given society.
- 21. (two words) Cultural values a majority of people identify with in a given society.
- 22. A form of culture based on tangible or physical items that people have created for use and give meaning to in a given culture.
- 24. (two words) ______ ________ hypothesis is the assertion that language helps shape reality for those experiencing it.