Across
- 5. Sociological perspective primarily sees inequality in our society and emphasizes the way groups compete over resources, like money and power.
- 7. “Hypothesis” that argues that the language we use shapes our perception of reality. (The answer is the hyphenation of the two theorists’ names.)
- 8. Type of stratification system in the U.S.
- 11. Process by which people learn their culture.
- 16. This sociological perspective, when viewing social stratification, implies that people move up the economic ladder based on their abilities, skills, knowledge, and, more generally, their merit.
- 18. It encompasses all that we say, know, make, and do in our efforts to survive and thrive.
- 19. Practice of comparing another culture to one’s own culture and often believing one’s own culture is superior.
- 22. Standards and expectations for behaving.
- 23. Whether a behavior is considered deviant depends on the circumstances in which the behavior occurs and not on the behavior itself.
- 24. A system of shared symbols; it includes speech, written characters, numerals, symbols, and nonverbal gestures and expressions that is the foundation of culture.
Down
- 1. The richest 1% of the U.S. population owns 40% of all of this.
- 2. A condition in which members of society have differing amounts of wealth, prestige, or power.
- 3. The process of adopting new behavioral patterns in place of old ones as one moves through different transitions and stages of life.
- 4. The ways in which people act with other people and react to how other people are acting.
- 6. This type of society features information technology and service jobs, and computers are a vital feature.
- 7. A group within a larger culture who participate in the broader culture, yet have cultural traits that are differ and are unique.
- 9. Term used by sociologists to refer to a structured ranking of entire groups of people that perpetuates unequal economic rewards and power in society
- 10. Behavior that violates a group's norms
- 12. A problem affecting many individuals the source of which lies in the social structure and culture of a society
- 13. Term used to refer to hereditary ranks that are relatively fixed, immobile, and generally dictated by religion
- 14. The movement up or down the stratification ladder.
- 15. These types of stratification systems have more vertical mobility - people can move up or even down the stratification ladder.
- 17. Drug policies, like the Rockefeller laws and mandatory minimums, that created the highest prison population in the world are part of this approach.
- 20. In the classic debate, this refers to social influences that explain why humans develop the way they do - or “become human.”
- 21. structure refers to the social patterns through which a society is organized, including the interrelated social institutions found in a society, social groups and associated patterns of group behavior, as well as statuses that individuals assume within social groups and the roles played in relation to these statuses.