Basics of Culture

3. The cultural pattern of a society's elite
5. The way that people understand the world based on their form of language
7. A symbolic system of communication
9. The practice of evaluating another culture according to the standards of one's own culture
11. An experience of personal disorientation when confronted with an unfamiliar way of life
12. The moral views and principles of a group
14. Groups that reject and oppose society's widely accepted cultural patterns
16. The ideas, attitudes, and beliefs of a society

1. A group's shared practices, values, and beliefs
2. A culture's standard for discerning what is good and just in society
4. Mainstream, widespread patterns among a society's population
5. A way to authorize or formally disapprove of certain behaviors
6. The objects or belongings of a group of people
8. Direct, appropriate behavior in the day-to-day practices and expressions of a culture
10. Groups that share a specific identification, apart from a society's majority, even as the members exist within a larger society
13. Tenets or convictions that people hold to be true
15. Gestures or objects that have meanings associated with them that are recognized by people who share a culture