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Sociology Vocab
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. A household or family unit created by one male and one female from their previous marriages as well as children from the present marriage
issue
Blended family
folkways
Ethnic
2. A household or family unit created by one male and one female from their previous marriages as well as children from the present marriage
direct learning
Urbanization
Blended family
Funeralization
3. The method by which the social values are internalized
indirect learning
overt conduct
Rite
Enculturation (socialization)
4. A division - or smaller identifiable unit of culture - connected to that culture
Blended family
Subculture
Rule
Primitive funeral rite
5. Any event performed in a solemn and prescribed manner
Cultural universal
Rule
Rite
Modern
6. Immediate disposition of the body with no form or funeral rite at the time of disposition
Funeral
Folkways
Cultural relativism
direct disposal
7. One who participates in an event simply by listening and observing rather than by overt actions
Matriarchal
Law
Industrialization
passive participant
8. A funeral rite that is in essence devoid of religious
Mores
Agarian
overt conduct
Humanistic funeral rite
9. Behaviors which are construed as somewhat less compulsive than mores of the same society
thanatology
Sociology
Agarian
Folkways
10. Two unrelated adults of the opposite sex sharing the same living quarters.
folkways
Cohabitants
Rule
Primitive funeral rite
11. Individual crafting of products is replaced by manufacture of goods
Beliefs
Industrialization
Immediate disposition
Folkways
12. Any society which exists in a stage of develpment prior to the invention of the written word in their culture
Taboos
pre-literate society
Demographic
Cohabitants
13. Of or characteristic of the present or recent times; not ancient - often used to
Urbanization
issue
Bureaucratization
Modern
14. Behaviors which are construed as somewhat less compulsive than mores of the same society
Non-traditional funeral rite
folkways
Primitive funeral rite
Extended (joint) family
15. An all-inclusive term used to encompass all funerals and/or memorial
Bureaucratization
issue
Traditional funeral rite
Funeral rite
16. Any single action or series of actions performed during a rite which contains symbolic meanins to the participants and observers of the rite.
Ethnocentrism
Mobility
Ritual (ceremony
Law
17. Immediate disposition of the body with no form or funeral rite at the time of disposition
direct disposal
Religion
Funeral rite
Single parent family
18. A funeral rite that is adjusted to the needs and wants of those directly invovled; one which ahs been altered to suit the trends of the times
Mobility
Primitive funeral rite
Cultural universal
Adaptive Funeral rite
19. Funeral rites with the body not present
Memorial Service
Ethnic
indirect learning
Enculturation (socialization)
20. One who participates in an event simply by listening and observing rather than by overt actions
Ethnocentrism
Modified extended family
passive participant
Mores
21. The emotional attitude that one's own race - nation - group - or culture is
Mores
Funeral
Ethnocentrism
Law
22. Behaviors which are construed as somewhat less compulsive than mores of the same society
Neo-localism
folkways
Cultural relativism
Egalitarian
23. Living or happening in the same period
Extended (joint) family
Contemporary
Funeral rite
Rites of passage
24. Categorization of people by money - prestige and power; a ranking
Social stratification
Neo-localism
Beliefs
overt conduct
25. The creation of a system which governs through departments and
Socialization
Bureaucratization
futuristic
folkways
26. A funeral rite that deviates from the normal or prescribed
Non-traditional funeral rite
Traditional funeral rite
Immediate disposition
Matriarchal
27. A culturally entrenched pattern of behavior made up of: 1) sacred beliefs -
Religion
Memorial Service
futuristic
Social stratification
28. An event that allows those who have something in common with each
Social function
indirect learning
Cultural relativism
Ethnic
29. Like abstract patterns of and for living and dying - which are
Social mobility
Cultural universal
pre-literate society
Patriarchal
30. Pertaining to demography; the science of vital statistics or of births -
Demographic
Primitive funeral rite
Memorial Service
Funeral rite
31. Funeral rites with the body not present
Egalitarian
Religion
Memorial Service
Neo-localism
32. Social behavior as dictated by the tradition of the people.
issue
Customs
Society
direct learning
33. A household or family unit created by related nuclear
Agarian
Modified extended family
thanatology
Customs
34. Any acton performed during a rite which may or may not have symbolic meaning to the participants or observer of the acftion
Demographic
Ritual (ceremony
Matriarchal
Ceremony (ritual)
35. The combustion of a dead human body to its essential inorganic elements by rapid oxidation
Adaptive Funeral rite
Rite
Immediate disposition
cremation (ritual
36. The upward or downward movement of a person or family within the social classes of their society
Primitive funeral rite
Social mobility
Religion
Urbanization
37. The emotional attitude that all cultures are equal and pertinent.
Customs
Neo-localism
Cultural relativism
Industrialization
38. The science of social groups; the processes that tend to maintain or changethese forms of organizations and the relations between groups and individuals
Blended family
Bureaucratization
Sociology
Patriarchal
39. Social behavior as dictated by the tradition of the people.
indirect learning
Customs
Industrialization
direct disposal
40. Any of the basic divisions or groups of humankind distinguished by customs -
Humanistic funeral rite
Sociology
Memorial Service
Ethnic
41. Like abstract patterns of and for living and dying - which are
issue
Cultural universal
Sociology
direct disposal
42. The offspring or children of a specific set of parents
cremation (ritual
Anonymity
issue
Social stratification
43. The father rules the family; power is passed to the oldest male child
Patriarchal
Rite
Symbols
futuristic
44. The acquisition of the culture by a person through deliberate instruction by other members of that society
Humanistic funeral rite
direct learning
Demographic
Funeralization
45. The process of the emergence of personal charateristics and behavioral phenomena through endogenous growth processes.
Hospice
maturation
issue
Rite
46. Must behavior that dictates the individual must abstain from certain acts
Society
Taboos
Modified extended family
Blended family
47. Living or happening in the same period
Contemporary
Social stratification
Subculture
cremation (ritual
48. Must-behavior; the basic and important patterns of ideas and acts of a people as
Mores
Religion
futuristic
Rites of passage
49. A household or family unit consisting of father and mother - all
maturation
Humanistic funeral rite
Extended (joint) family
Modern
50. Things to which socially created meaning is given
Symbols
Cohabitants
Sociology
Immediate disposition