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Across
  1. 2. Belief that one's own culture and group is superior to others
  2. 4. A pluralist society is one in which many different groups and political parties are allowed to exist.
  3. 5. All of the tangible products created by human interaction. Can be held or touched. Examples are clothing, buildings, car, computers, prepared food, etc.
  4. 7. Negative sanctions are actual or threatened punishments.
  5. 12. A subculture that opposes the values and norms of the dominant culture. Often lives apart from the dominant culture. Sometimes seeks to change the values and norms of the dominant culture to those of the Counterculture.
  6. 16. Cultures should be judge by their own values. Verstehen.
  7. 17. Shared rules of conduct that tell people how to act in a specific social situation. An expectation, not the actual behavior.
  8. 19. a threatened penalty for disobeying a law or rule.
  9. 20. Shared beliefs about good and evil, right and wrong, Types of values determine the character and behavior of the members of a society.
  10. 22. a social or religious custom prohibiting or forbidding discussion of a particular practice or forbidding association with a particular person, place, or thing.
  11. 23. The term cultural lag refers to the notion that culture takes time to catch up with technological innovations, and the resulting social problems that are caused by this lag.
  12. 25. the feeling of disorientation experienced by someone who is suddenly subjected to an unfamiliar culture, way of life, or set of attitudes.
  13. 26. Symbolic culture, or nonmaterial culture, is the ability to learn and transmit behavioral traditions from one generation to the next by the invention of things that exist entirely in the symbolic realm.
  14. 27. All of the intangible products created by human interaction. Cannot be held or touched. Examples are family pattern, language, economic system, work practices, etc.
  15. 28. The core values of an organization are those values we hold which form the foundation on which we perform work and conduct ourselves.
Down
  1. 1. Cultural leveling is the process by which different cultures approach each other as a result of travel and communication.
  2. 3. a hypothesis, first advanced by Edward Sapir in 1929 and subsequently developed by Benjamin Whorf, that the structure of a language determines a native speaker's perception and categorization of experience.
  3. 6. the spreading out and merging of pieces from different cultures.
  4. 8. A value system by itself is internally inconsistent or contradictory if its values contradict each other, and its exceptions are highly situational and inconsistently applied.
  5. 9. a series of interrelated values that together form a larger whole
  6. 10. the essential or characteristic customs and conventions of a community.
  7. 11. a movement of part of the body, especially a hand or the head, to express an idea or meaning.
  8. 13. A type of Norm. Does not have great moral significance. No official sanction for violating a folkway.
  9. 14. Positive sanctions can include celebration, congratulation, praise, social recognition, social promotion, and approval, as well as formal sanctions such as awards, bonuses, prizes, and titles.
  10. 15. Organized system of written symbols or spoken sounds that allow communication among members of a culture.
  11. 18. Anything that stands for or represents something and has shared meaning attached to it.
  12. 21. A smaller culture within a dominant culture that has a way of life different in some way from the dominant culture.
  13. 24. All of the common ideas, beliefs, behaviors, and products common to, and defining, a group's way of life.