Sociology - Week One

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Across
  1. 5. Coined term “sociology”
  2. 9. ideology Set of cultural beliefs and practices that help maintain powerful interests
  3. 10. Construct for evaluating specific cases
  4. 12. Study of physical features of nature and the ways they interact and change
  5. 14. Loss of direction felt in a society when social control of individual behavior becomes ineffective
  6. 15. Systematic study of how biology affects human social behavior
  7. 17. Feeling disoriented, uncertain, out of place, or fearful when immersed in an unfamiliar culture
  8. 19. Large number of people who live in same territory, who are relatively independent of people outside that area, and who participate in a common culture
  9. 20. Scientific study of social behavior and human groups
  10. 21. Tendency to assume that one’s own culture and way of life represents the norm or is superior to others
  11. 23. perspective assumes social behavior best understood in terms of conflict or tension between competing groups
Down
  1. 1. Abstract system of word meanings and symbols for all aspects of culture
  2. 2. Totality of learned, socially transmitted customs, knowledge, material objects, and behavior
  3. 3. Norms governing everyday behavior
  4. 4. Perspective that emphasizes the way parts of a society are structured to maintain its stability
  5. 6. Penalties and rewards for conduct concerning social norm
  6. 7. Process through which principles of fast-food industry dominate certain sectors of society
  7. 8. Study of social features of humans and the ways they interact & change
  8. 10. Generalizes about everyday forms of social interaction to explain society as a whole
  9. 11. Period of maladjustment when nonmaterial culture struggles to adapt to new material conditions
  10. 13. Collective conceptions of what is good, desirable, and proper – or bad, undesirable, and improper
  11. 16. Established standards of behavior maintained by a society
  12. 18. Norms deemed highly necessary to the welfare of a society
  13. 22. Segment of society that shares distinctive pattern of mores, folkways, and values that differs from larger society