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