Across
- 3. The potential power of individuals and groups to contest cultural norms, values, mental maps of reality, symbols, institutions, and structures of power
- 4. A system of knowledge, beliefs, patterns of behavior, artifacts, and institutions that are created, learned, shared, and contested by a group of people
- 7. rules about how people should behave in particular situations or toward certain other people
- 8. The complete collection of microorganisms in the human body's ecosystem
- 10. A conceptural framework that sees culture primarily as a symbolic system of deep meaning.
- 13. A conceptual framework positing that each element of society serves a particular function to keep the entire system in equilibrium
- 15. The idea, attributed to Franz Boas, that cultures develop in specific way because of their unique histories
- 16. Anything that represents something else
Down
- 1. Fundamental beliefs about what is important, what makes a good life, and what is true, right, and beautiful
- 2. Cultural classifications of what kinds of people and things exist, and the assignment of meaning to those classifications
- 5. The theory proposed by 19th century anthropologists that all cultures naturally evolve through the same sequence of stages from simple to complex
- 6. The ability of a dominant group to create consent and agreement within a population without use of threat of force
- 9. An area of study in the field of genetics exploring how environmental factors directly effect the expression of genes in way that may be inherited between generations
- 11. The uneven distribution of resources and privileges among participants in a group or culture
- 12. The process of learning culture
- 14. the ability or potential to bring about change through action or influence