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Sociology Vocab
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. The method by which the social values are internalized
Nuclear family
Enculturation (socialization)
Society
Matriarchal
2. A household or family unit consisting of father and mother - all
Bureaucratization
Traditional funeral rite
Extended (joint) family
Rite
3. A philosophy which contends that one must seek life's meaning or fulfillment in the future rather than in the past or present
Hospice
futuristic
Neo-localism
Taboos
4. Any event performed in a solemn and prescribed manner
Rite
Ceremony (ritual)
Sociology
Anonymity
5. The emotional attitude that all cultures are equal and pertinent.
Primitive funeral rite
Beliefs
Religion
Cultural relativism
6. A social grouping in which members possess roughly equivalent culturally valued
pre-literate society
Demographic
Class
folkways
7. The acquisition of the culture by a person through deliberate instruction by other members of that society
Class
direct learning
direct disposal
Beliefs
8. The upward or downward movement of a person or family within the social classes of their society
Mobility
Non-traditional funeral rite
Social mobility
Matriarchal
9. Behavioral patterns which are observable by others
overt conduct
Ethnocentrism
Nuclear family
Blended family
10. The combustion of a dead human body to its essential inorganic elements by rapid oxidation
Matriarchal
issue
Nuclear family
cremation (ritual
11. Ceremonies centering around transition in life from one status to
Ceremony (ritual)
Religion
Rites of passage
Cohabitants
12. Must-behavior; the basic and important patterns of ideas and acts of a people as
Mores
Nuclear family
Funeral rite
issue
13. A culturally entrenched pattern of behavior made up of: 1) sacred beliefs -
Hospice
Memorial Service
Religion
Humanistic funeral rite
14. Behavioral patterns which are observable by others
Egalitarian
Social function
Bureaucratization
overt conduct
15. A funeral rite that is in essence devoid of religious
Bureaucratization
issue
Humanistic funeral rite
Modern
16. The change from rural to urban in character
Modern
Urbanization
Blended family
Cultural universal
17. Any single action or series of actions performed during a rite which contains symbolic meanins to the participants and observers of the rite.
Enculturation (socialization)
Ritual (ceremony
Cohabitants
Rule
18. Social behavior as dictated by the tradition of the people.
Modern
Extended (joint) family
Non-traditional funeral rite
Customs
19. The offspring or children of a specific set of parents
issue
Ritual (ceremony
Neo-localism
Social function
20. Any single action or series of actions performed during a rite which contains symbolic meanins to the participants and observers of the rite.
Ritual (ceremony
overt conduct
Bureaucratization
Contemporary
21. A household or family unit created by related nuclear
Modified extended family
direct learning
Taboos
Beliefs
22. A must behavior not necessarily a basic or important pattern of a people (related to
Enculturation (socialization)
Neo-localism
Law
Industrialization
23. Specified methods of procedure
Funeral
Rule
Urbanization
issue
24. A process involving all activities associated with final disposition
Class
Funeralization
Patriarchal
Non-traditional funeral rite
25. Funeral rites with the body not present
Neo-localism
Rule
Memorial Service
Immediate disposition
26. Living or happening in the same period
Contemporary
Ethnic
Bureaucratization
Neo-localism
27. An all-inclusive term used to encompass all funerals and/or memorial
Ethnocentrism
direct learning
thanatology
Funeral rite
28. Any of the basic divisions or groups of humankind distinguished by customs -
Immediate disposition
Law
Taboos
Ethnic
29. The study of death derived from the name thanatos - God of Death
Mores
thanatology
Cultural universal
direct disposal
30. The emotional attitude that one's own race - nation - group - or culture is
Class
Traditional funeral rite
Folkways
Ethnocentrism
31. Funeral rites with the body not present
folkways
Immediate disposition
Memorial Service
Single parent family
32. A process involving all activities associated with final disposition
issue
Funeralization
Social function
Bureaucratization
33. The change from rural to urban in character
Urbanization
Taboos
overt conduct
Funeralization
34. A household or family unit created by one male and one female from their previous marriages as well as children from the present marriage
Cultural relativism
Rule
Memorial Service
Blended family
35. The offspring or children of a specific set of parents
Egalitarian
Folkways
issue
Non-traditional funeral rite
36. Being unknown
Symbols
Anonymity
Nuclear family
Demographic
37. Any disposition of human remains - which is completely devoid
Nuclear family
Cultural relativism
Humanistic funeral rite
Immediate disposition
38. A division - or smaller identifiable unit of culture - connected to that culture
Patriarchal
maturation
Subculture
Neo-localism
39. Must behavior that dictates the individual must abstain from certain acts
Rule
Taboos
overt conduct
Cohabitants
40. Rites with the body present
Matriarchal
maturation
Funeral
Social stratification
41. Existential (relating to - or dealing with existense) statements about the physical and social world
Funeralization
Beliefs
Customs
Matriarchal
42. Any society which exists in a stage of develpment prior to the invention of the written word in their culture
pre-literate society
Rule
indirect learning
Social mobility
43. Two unrelated adults of the opposite sex sharing the same living quarters.
futuristic
Subculture
Rites of passage
Cohabitants
44. The combustion of a dead human body to its essential inorganic elements by rapid oxidation
cremation (ritual
Primitive funeral rite
passive participant
direct learning
45. An event that allows those who have something in common with each
issue
Rite
passive participant
Social function
46. A household or family unit created by related nuclear
Modified extended family
Rites of passage
Rule
Extended (joint) family
47. (enculturation)
Adaptive Funeral rite
Socialization
Cultural universal
Subculture
48. An all-inclusive term used to encompass all funerals and/or memorial
Funeral rite
Customs
Subculture
folkways
49. A funeral rite that is in essence devoid of religious
Funeral rite
Humanistic funeral rite
Law
Social stratification
50. Like abstract patterns of and for living and dying - which are
Ethnocentrism
Cultural universal
Funeral
Rite