Across
- 3. Behavior. The rights and obligations expected of someone occupying a particular status or in a particular situation.
- 4. Move within the same level of the Social Stratification of a society. Status does not change.
- 5. Social ranking or hierarchy in a society. It implies unequal access to social rewards and sharing of resources
- 7. Features common to all cultures such as cooking, feasting, religion, myths and folklore, music, housing, funeral ceremonies, marriage ceremonies.
- 8. A position a person occupies in society
- 9. A behavior that individuals are expected to perform toward others
- 13. Cultural modification of an individual, group, or culture by adapting to or borrowing traits from another culture
- 15. A social position that is acquired through personal effort.
- 17. A smaller culture within a dominant culture that has a way of life different in some way from the dominant culture.
- 18. 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.
- 20. Organized system of written symbols or spoken sounds that allow communication among members of a culture.
- 22. All of the intangible products created by human interaction. Cannot be held or touched. Examples are family pattern, language, economic system, work practices, etc.
- 23. A social position that is assigned according to standards that are beyond a person's control. Examples are age, gender, ethnic group, and race.
- 24. Written rules of conduct enacted and enforced by the government. Serious consequences if violated.
- 25. The ability of individuals or groups to move from one level to another level in a stratification system of the society.
- 28. Shared beliefs about good and evil, right and wrong, Types of values determine the character and behavior of the members of a society.
- 31. All of the common ideas, beliefs, behaviors, and products common to, and defining, a group's way of life.
- 32. A condition in which the performance of a role in one status interferes with the performance of a role in another status
- 34. All of the tangible products created by human interaction. Can be held or touched. Examples are clothing, buildings, car, computers, prepared food, etc.
- 35. The values and norms that are actually practiced by the members of a group.
- 36. Unequal treatment of people based on group membership
- 37. The values and norms the members of group proclaim to accept and follow.
Down
- 1. Answers the unanswerable, establishes morality, deals with death and the afterlife.
- 2. Moves up or down within the Social Stratification of a society. Status can go up or down.
- 6. The process of a cultural group losing its identity and being absorbed in a dominant culture.
- 10. All of the statuses that an individual occupies at any particular time
- 11. Social movement experienced by a family member from one generation to another. Example is an adult child has a job or career that carries a higher social status than a parent.
- 12. Primary social group. Purposes are to reproduce, nurture the members; particularly the children, and to teach the values and mores of the culture.
- 14. Shared rules of conduct that tell people how to act in a specific social situation. An expectation, not the actual behavior.
- 16. Cultures should be judge by their own values. Verstehen.
- 19. Belief that one's own culture and group is superior to others
- 21. A behavior that individuals can expect from others
- 26. Anything that stands for or represents something and has shared meaning attached to it.
- 27. Role that becomes more important than all other roles.
- 29. Exaggerated, often negative generalization about a group of people
- 30. A type of Norm. Does not have great moral significance. No official sanction for violating a folkway.
- 33. A preconceived and irrational attitude toward people based on group membership.