Midterm Definitions

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Across
  1. 2. study of specific relationships between individuals or small groups
  2. 4. wide-scale view of the role of social structures within a society
  3. 5. spread of material and nonmaterial culture from one culture to another
  4. 6. group's shared practices, values, and beliefs
  5. 7. visible and invisible rules of conduct through which societies are structured
  6. 10. way that people understand the world based on their form of language
  7. 12. direct, appropriate behavior in the day-to-day practices and expressions of a culture
  8. 13. cultural patterns of a society's elite
  9. 15. evaluation and judgement of another culture based on one's own cultural norms
  10. 17. groups that share a specific identification, apart from a society's majority, even as the members exist within a larger society
  11. 18. mainstream, widespread patterns among a society's population
  12. 19. philosophical and theoretical frameworks used within a discipline to formulate theories, generalizations, and the experiments performed in support of them
  13. 21. gap of time between the introduction of material culture and nonmaterial culture's acceptance
  14. 24. theory that looks at society as a competition for limited resources
  15. 25. cultural patterns of a society's lowest segments
  16. 26. new objects or ideas introduced to culture for the first time
Down
  1. 1. set of assumptions about reality that inform the questions we ask and the kinds of answers we arrive at as a result
  2. 2. moral views and principles of a group
  3. 3. gestures or objects that have meanings associated with them that are recognized by people who share a culture
  4. 8. theoretical perspective through wich scholars examine the relationship of individuals within their society by studying their communication (language & symbols)
  5. 9. cultural norms and values derive their meaning within a specific social context
  6. 11. integration of international trade and finance markets
  7. 14. groups that reject and oppose society's widely accepted cultural patterns
  8. 16. theoretical approach that sees society as a structure with interrelated parts designed to meet the biological and social needs of individuals which make up that society
  9. 20. tendency to value others culture, values, styles, products, etc, more than our own
  10. 22. systematic study of society and social interaction
  11. 23. groups of people who live in a defined geographical area who interact with one another and who share a common culture