Across
- 3. the study of expressions, symbolic gestures, and other small individual components of society
- 6. the tendency for a segment of a society to become increasingly controlled by bureaucracies, or organizations governed by rigid administrative rules and formal hierarchies
- 8. positions that we earn through our own accomplishment
- 10. unintentional negative consequence of a societal structure
- 12. a group that one uses to compare oneself to
- 13. the spread of a cultural practice or tradition from one group to another (or between individuals in a single group)
- 14. an intentional or main result of a social structure
- 18. this theory relates to the logical deliberation between options by way measuring the social exchanges that could occur in consequence. Some choices yield more benefits than punishments, others are the opposite, and still others seem to have a neutral exchange value.
- 19. a group within an experimental design that does not receive the experimental conditions
- 20. this theory describes how the expectations that a teacher transmits to a student can cause the student to act in accordance to these expectations
- 22. a political situation where a small group of people effectively run society
- 23. an organization where members are paid or otherwise compensated, such as a job
- 25. the continuation of a cultural tradition through successive generations. The "passing down" of cultural behaviors and knowledge from adults, usually parents, to children.
- 26. sociology the study of the way distinct groups compete for resources
- 27. the implicit or unspoken values that are taught in school
- 28. a phenomenon where material culture advances faster than symbolic culture
- 29. this theory accounts for the fact that we agree upon certain gestures, words, and other symbols, to which we assign meaning.
- 30. an organization that is voluntarily joined and exists to perform some moral activity
Down
- 1. something that occurs when a person has trouble meeting multiple demands of the same role
- 2. a smaller group within a society whose members share values, often an environment, and common goals
- 4. when one party begins to blend aspects of other culture into their own
- 5. this type of culture includes tangible objects or "things"
- 7. an action that is strongly disapproved of by society; these behaviors may or may not have associated legal sanctions as well
- 9. positions that we are born with or assigned
- 11. this theory explains how groups compete for resources to attain power or superiority
- 15. this theory explains how we assign importance or "value" to certain social constructs
- 16. a socially constructed role that individuals enter when they become ill.
- 17. when an individual leaves a role
- 21. a group that includes long-lasting, close relationships, such as a family or tight-knit group of friends
- 24. an unattended benefit of a social structure