Socio-Cultural Concepts

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Across
  1. 1. The process of adopting and internalizing the schemas of your culture
  2. 3. A widely held but fixed and oversimplified image or idea of a particular type of person or thing
  3. 5. Adhering to the social norms of the group
  4. 7. What is the word for the belief that you are capable of doing something?
  5. 8. Predicts that relationships among diverse individuals can improve through interaction
  6. 10. A dynamic system of rules, explicit and implicit, that are shared by a group and transmitted across generations. Culture allows the group to meet basic needs of survival, pursue happiness and well being, and derive meaning from life.
  7. 13. This theory says that we categorize ourselves into groups, identify with certain groups and compare ourselves to others
  8. 15. The risk of confirming negative stereotypes about one’s social group
  9. 17. The process in which an individual adopts, acquires and adjusts to a new cultural environment
  10. 19. When one has a strong global identity but fails to identify with their local culture
  11. 21. Values equality over hierarchy
  12. 24. A response in relation to a request, even if the person making the request has no power to enforce it
  13. 25. The passing on of culture from generation to generation
  14. 26. When you conform because you don’t want to rock the boat
  15. 27. Interaction and integration among people, companies, and governments worldwide
  16. 28. What is one way we become enculturated?
Down
  1. 2. Difficulty integrating oneself into a single “identity” as one tries to determine one’s values and place in society
  2. 4. When you conform because you are a part of the same group
  3. 6. The psychological impact of adaptation to a new culture. As with any type of stress, long term acculturative stress also may lead to reduced mental and physical health
  4. 9. States that behavior is learned through observing others and witnessing reinforcements
  5. 11. Those who have the power, authority and/or influence to uphold ideas, beliefs, and values in society and culture
  6. 12. When you conform because you think others know something you don’t
  7. 14. When one person can cause others to conform
  8. 16. Loss of a sense of individuality in a group
  9. 18. Assume we can judge some aspects of culture relative to another
  10. 20. The act of judging another culture and believing that the values and standards of one's own culture are superior
  11. 22. Values the success of the group above the individual
  12. 23. Common behaviors and values in a society or culture