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Sociology Vocab
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1. A household or family unit created by related nuclear
cremation (ritual
Immediate disposition
Enculturation (socialization)
Modified extended family
2. Must behavior that dictates the individual must abstain from certain acts
maturation
Modern
Taboos
Ceremony (ritual)
3. A group of persons forming a single community with some interests in
Funeral
Beliefs
Hospice
Society
4. A process involving all activities associated with final disposition
Funeralization
Primitive funeral rite
Society
Hospice
5. The method by which the social values are internalized
Enculturation (socialization)
Sociology
Rites of passage
Modern
6. The study of death derived from the name thanatos - God of Death
Humanistic funeral rite
Bureaucratization
Matriarchal
thanatology
7. Any single action or series of actions performed during a rite which contains symbolic meanins to the participants and observers of the rite.
thanatology
Folkways
Neo-localism
Ritual (ceremony
8. Any society which exists in a stage of develpment prior to the invention of the written word in their culture
pre-literate society
Adaptive Funeral rite
Law
Agarian
9. Living or happening in the same period
Rule
Adaptive Funeral rite
Subculture
Contemporary
10. Funeral rites with the body not present
Ritual (ceremony
Patriarchal
Funeral rite
Memorial Service
11. Being unknown
Anonymity
Single parent family
Matriarchal
Blended family
12. The combustion of a dead human body to its essential inorganic elements by rapid oxidation
Rule
Demographic
maturation
cremation (ritual
13. The method by which the social values are internalized
Enculturation (socialization)
Social mobility
Primitive funeral rite
Modern
14. An event that allows those who have something in common with each
Patriarchal
Urbanization
Social function
Humanistic funeral rite
15. Categorization of people by money - prestige and power; a ranking
Rite
Social stratification
pre-literate society
Funeral
16. The emotional attitude that all cultures are equal and pertinent.
issue
Cultural relativism
Mores
Class
17. Any event performed in a solemn and prescribed manner
Demographic
Memorial Service
futuristic
Rite
18. Dealing with agriculture
folkways
Agarian
Ceremony (ritual)
Ethnic
19. Any acton performed during a rite which may or may not have symbolic meaning to the participants or observer of the acftion
Humanistic funeral rite
direct disposal
pre-literate society
Ceremony (ritual)
20. The emotional attitude that one's own race - nation - group - or culture is
Matriarchal
Ethnocentrism
Cultural relativism
direct learning
21. Must-behavior; the basic and important patterns of ideas and acts of a people as
Class
Mores
Cohabitants
Neo-localism
22. The study of death derived from the name thanatos - God of Death
thanatology
cremation (ritual
Non-traditional funeral rite
Cultural universal
23. Immediate disposition of the body with no form or funeral rite at the time of disposition
direct disposal
Industrialization
Neo-localism
Folkways
24. The emotional attitude that one's own race - nation - group - or culture is
Society
Society
Traditional funeral rite
Ethnocentrism
25. Behaviors which are construed as somewhat less compulsive than mores of the same society
Hospice
Agarian
Folkways
Beliefs
26. A funeral rite that deviates from the normal or prescribed
Non-traditional funeral rite
Social function
Ethnocentrism
Class
27. Dealing with agriculture
maturation
Single parent family
issue
Agarian
28. 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
Socialization
Adaptive Funeral rite
Folkways
Religion
29. The creation of a system which governs through departments and
Bureaucratization
Rule
Single parent family
Neo-localism
30. The emotional attitude that all cultures are equal and pertinent.
Immediate disposition
Cultural relativism
Beliefs
maturation
31. A must behavior not necessarily a basic or important pattern of a people (related to
Law
Urbanization
Rule
Neo-localism
32. Any of the basic divisions or groups of humankind distinguished by customs -
Funeralization
Rule
Demographic
Ethnic
33. Immediate disposition of the body with no form or funeral rite at the time of disposition
Agarian
Customs
direct disposal
Neo-localism
34. Existential (relating to - or dealing with existense) statements about the physical and social world
cremation (ritual
Beliefs
Contemporary
Hospice
35. Of or characteristic of the present or recent times; not ancient - often used to
Funeral rite
Mores
Modern
Adaptive Funeral rite
36. A philosophy which contends that one must seek life's meaning or fulfillment in the future rather than in the past or present
Enculturation (socialization)
futuristic
issue
Social stratification
37. Of or characteristic of the present or recent times; not ancient - often used to
Beliefs
pre-literate society
Modern
Beliefs
38. The state or quality of being mobile; the ability to move from place to place
Law
Social stratification
Mobility
overt conduct
39. Rites of funeralization usually assoicated with pre-literature societies
Primitive funeral rite
Social function
direct learning
Extended (joint) family
40. Rites with the body present
Social stratification
Funeral
Taboos
cremation (ritual
41. The science of social groups; the processes that tend to maintain or changethese forms of organizations and the relations between groups and individuals
Rites of passage
Social mobility
Sociology
Adaptive Funeral rite
42. Behaviors which are construed as somewhat less compulsive than mores of the same society
Non-traditional funeral rite
Egalitarian
folkways
Cultural universal
43. A household or family unit created by one male and one female from their previous marriages as well as children from the present marriage
Rule
indirect learning
indirect learning
Blended family
44. Like abstract patterns of and for living and dying - which are
Blended family
Cultural universal
overt conduct
Hospice
45. A household or family unit consisting of father and mother - all
Folkways
Anonymity
Cultural universal
Extended (joint) family
46. Social behavior as dictated by the tradition of the people.
overt conduct
Customs
Hospice
Law
47. The mother rules the family; a woman holding a position analogous to that
Matriarchal
Urbanization
Cohabitants
Funeral rite
48. Specified methods of procedure
Ceremony (ritual)
Rule
thanatology
Folkways
49. A funeral rite that is in essence devoid of religious
Funeral rite
Customs
Blended family
Humanistic funeral rite
50. Two unrelated adults of the opposite sex sharing the same living quarters.
folkways
Customs
cremation (ritual
Cohabitants