SOCIOLOGY UNIT 2 REVIEW

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Across
  1. 4. Ideas – intangibles that include cultural ideas, beliefs, social roles, rules, ethics, and attitudes of a society or culture
  2. 5. cultural group or subculture whose values and norms of behavior run opposite/against those of the society’s social mainstream
  3. 6. things - refers to the physical tangible objects, resources, & items that people use to define their culture or share outside culture
  4. 10. delays/takes time for cultural aspect to catch up with other innovations; may result in social problems caused by this delay/gap
  5. 11. smaller & personal - emphasizes the importance of the group. The group is more important than the individual (more Mayberry)
  6. 12. when members of a majority adopt cultural elements of a minority in an exploitative, disrespectful, amusing or stereotypical way
  7. 13. structure of language determines/influences thinking & our limited word choices/vocabulary limit understanding & communication
  8. 15. best described as concepts, social constructs, or patterns of behavior that are common to & exist in ALL human cultures
  9. 18. one seeks to understand/learn about another culture in an effort to broaden perspective, understand, connect & respect them
  10. 19. spread of cultural trends across locations & societies; Beliefs, practices, & aspects/ideas get shared from one to another culture
  11. 20. hostile attitude- the beliefs, thoughts, feelings, and attitudes someone holds about another out-group or culture
  12. 21. hostile actions/treatment of people and out-groups based on characteristics such as race, gender, age, or sexual orientation
  13. 22. large/impersonal - prioritization or emphasis of the individual over the group; people are motivated by their own preferences
Down
  1. 1. culture that is held or seems the most “normal” to large amount/majority of people & media that live in a society (both high & low)
  2. 2. belief one's own culture is correct & often better than another; can lead to judging someone else's culture negatively.
  3. 3. characteristics cultures attribute to groups to classify/exaggerate them that are often negative & have some vestige of truth
  4. 7. not judging a cultural action or aspect as ethnocentric right or wrong – instead we should try to understand its function in culture
  5. 8. pattern of cultural experiences and attitudes that exist in the highest class & elite segments of a society/culture (uppity/elitist)
  6. 9. measures how consistently actions/aspects of a culture fit or mesh together; how complicated the culture is vs how simple
  7. 14. the forms of popular culture with mass appeal, often broadly appealing to majority -middle or lower classes of any given society.
  8. 16. a society’s total way of life; shared languages, customs, beliefs, rules, arts, knowledge, collective identities, memories & more
  9. 17. identifiable group within a society or culture, characterized by beliefs or interests a bit unique/different than the larger group