Across
- 4. Practice of comparing another culture to one’s own culture and often believing one’s own culture is superior.
- 6. theoretical perspective that focuses on symbols, social interaction and socialization in order to explain society as a whole.
- 9. Family, schools and peers are all considered these, because they teach us cultural beliefs, values and norms.
- 10. A research method when the researcher is part of the group that they are studying
- 12. A group within a larger culture who participate in the broader culture, yet have cultural traits that are differ and are unique.
- 13. In the classic debate, this refers to social influences that determine our human behavior.
- 14. “Hypothesis” that argues that the language we use shapes our perception of reality. (The answer is the hyphenation of the two theorists’ names.)
- 16. Type of society in which industry is no longer a big part of the economy, and information and service shape the type of work people do.
- 17. A problem affecting many individuals the source of which lies in the social structure and culture of a society
Down
- 1. It encompasses all that we say, know, make, and do in our efforts to survive and thrive.
- 2. Term refers to going along with the preferences of one's peers
- 3. The expectations as to how to behave in society.
- 5. Our social and physical traits, such as our gender, race, social class, religion, etc., deemed to be important by our society
- 6. A science in which sociologists engage in organized and systematic study of phenomena to enhance understanding of the interdependence between individuals and society.
- 7. A variable we think can affect another variable.
- 8. A period of disorientation that an individual feels when they enter into a new cultural setting.
- 11. The process of adopting new behavioral patterns in place of old ones as one moves through different transitions and stages of life.
- 15. Nonmaterial element of culture that represents what is desirable for people.