Sociology Word Scramble

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the language, beliefs, values, norms, behaviors, and even material objects that are passed from one generation to the next	culture
the material objects that distinguish a group of people, such as their art, buildings, weapons, utensils, machines, hairstyles, clothing, and jewelry	material culture
a group's way s of thinking and doing	nonmaterial culture
the disorientation that people experience when they come in contact with a fundamentally different culture and can no longer depend on their taken-for-granted assumptions about life	culture shock
the use of one's own culture as a yardstick for judging the ways of other individuals or societies, generally leading to a negative evaluation of their values, norms, and behaviors	ethnocentrism
not judging a culture but trying to understand it on its own terms	cultural relativism
another term for nonmaterial culture	symbolic culture
something to which people people attach meanings and then use to communicate with others	symbol
the ways in which people use their bodies to communicate with one another	gestures
a system of symbols that can be combined in an infinite number of ways and can represent not only objects but also abstract thought	language
Edward Sapir's and Benjamin Whorf's hypothesis that language creates ways of thinking and percieving	Sapir-Whorf hypothesis
the standards by which people define what is desirable or undesirable, good or bad, beautiful, or ugly	values
expectations, or rules of behavior, that reflect and enforce values	norms
expressions of approval or disapproval given to people for upholding or violating norms	sanctions
a reward or positive reaction for following norms, ranging from a smile to a prize	positive sanction
an expression of disapproval for breaking a norm, ranging from a mild, informal reaction such as a frown to a formal reaction such as a prison sentence or an execution	negative sanction
norms that are not strictly enforced	folkways
norms that are strictly enforced because they are thought essential to core values or the well-being of the group	mores
a norm so strong that it often brings revulsion if violated	taboo
the values and related behaviors of a group that distinguish its members from the larger culture; a world within a world	subculture
a group whose values, beliefs, and related behaviors place its members in opposition to the broader sulture	counterculture
a society made up of many different groups	pluralistic society
values that together form a larger whole	value cluster
values that contradict on another; to follow the one means to come into conflict with the other	value contradiction
the ideal values and norms of a people; the goals held out for them	ideal culture
the norms and values that people actually follow	real culture
a value, norm, or other cultural trait that is found in every group	cultural universal
a framework of thought that views human behavior as the result of natural selection and considers biological factors to be the fundamental cause of human behavior	sociobiology
in its narrow sense, tools; its broader sense includes the skills or procedures necessary to make and use those tools	technology
the emerging technologies of an era that have a significant impact on social life	new technology
Ogburn's term for human behavior lagging behind technological innovations	cultual lage
the spread of cultural characteristics from one group to another	cultural disffusion
the process by which cultures become similar to one another; refers especially to the process by which the U.S. culture is being exported and disffused into other nations	cultural leveling
smaller group (ex. high school students)	sub culture
something way outside mainstream (atheists)	counter culture

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