Sociology Crossword

1. The practice of assigning people to central or noncentral athletic positions on the basis of race or ethnicity.
4. Media executives, editors, or reporters who can open or close the "gate" on a particular news story.
7. A belief system in which moral principles have a sacred quality.
13. A system of roles and norms organized around the sacred realm the binds people together in social groups.
14. A system of roles and norms that ensures the transmission of knowledge, values, and patterns of behavior from one generation to the next.
15. A section of the Education Amendment Act of 1972 that bars discrimination on the basis of gender in any program.
17. A system in which non-English-speaking students are taught academic subjects in their native languages until they are prepared to attend classes taught in English.
18. The assignment of students to different types of educational programs.
21. A system in which a child's main education is undertaken by parents at home.
22. Anything that is considered to be part of the supernatural world and that inspires awe, respect, and reverence.
24. The belief in a god or gods.

1. The process of moving from the realm of the sacred to that of the profane.
2. The gap between those with access to new technologies and those without.
3. The processes by which every feature of human behavior becomes subject to calculation, measurement, and control.
5. A type of religious organization in which all people in the society are members by virtue of their birth.
6. Competitive games that are won or lost on the basis of physical skills and played according to specific rules.
8. Anything considered to be part of the ordinary world, and this commonplace and familiar, not sacred.
9. The social networks and the reciprocal norms associated with these networks that encourage people to do things for each other.
10. The belief that there is only one god.
11. A small unorthodox religious group.
12. Transmission by schools of cultural goals that are not openly acknowledged.
16. A belief system in which natural objects such as plants and animals are embodied spirits, which are active in influencing human life.
19. schools Alternative schools that are funded by public money, but are privately operated.
20. The belief in more than one god.
23. An established pattern of behavior through which a group of believers experiences the sacred.