Across
- 5. The rapid development in the late 1700s and throughout the 1800s of manufacturing and industry, enabled by technological changes in machinery and power sources.
- 8. When many people suddenly buy unusually large amounts of food and other necessities, usually out of fear of a weather event, natural disaster, or disease.
- 9. The ability to do work.
- 10. Social forces that impact individual behavior and are produced by that behavior.
- 12. An ongoing struggle between opposites.
- 15. Perspective in which we think about our own personal experience in relation to a larger set of social forces that influence every aspect of our lives.
- 16. Feeling of being disconnected from others, from work, and even from one’s own sense of humanity.
- 18. Patterns of connections between people in a society
- 19. The struggle between groups that have different interests and needs.
- 20. Present in simple societies, where everyone is connected and the society is highly cohesive
- 23. Perspective that focuses on the meaning that people make of their actions.
Down
- 1. Sociological perspective that sees individuals as defined by their relationships to others and to institutions such as the economy.
- 2. How tied you are to others in your community.
- 3. Expectations for behavior.
- 4. Perspective that individuals should be at the center of any study of society.
- 6. Present in complex societies, where many members are not connected to each other personally but depend on others due to the division of labor.
- 7. How goods and resources are owned and distributed.
- 11. A society’s use of rules to monitor members’ actions
- 13. Behaviors that produce social structures.
- 14. A lack of morals or social expectations to guide behavior.
- 17. According to Weber, the values people hold that guide their behavior.
- 18. The study of how societies are organized and how the organization of a society influences the behavior of people living in it. Sociology overlaps with other disciplines, such as political science, psychology, and economics.
- 21. A group of people with similar positions in the economy and similar needs and interests (for example, workers).
- 22. Compensation for one’s labor.
- 24. Economic arrangement in which workers, and even entire communities, specialize in particular tasks or products, rather than producing everything they need themselves.
