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Sociology Vocab
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1. Any society which exists in a stage of develpment prior to the invention of the written word in their culture
Ceremony (ritual)
Ethnic
pre-literate society
Cohabitants
2. The process of the emergence of personal charateristics and behavioral phenomena through endogenous growth processes.
Hospice
maturation
Taboos
Socialization
3. A household or family unit consisting of father and mother - all
Extended (joint) family
Egalitarian
direct learning
Social mobility
4. Any of the basic divisions or groups of humankind distinguished by customs -
Ethnic
issue
overt conduct
maturation
5. Living or happening in the same period
Egalitarian
Rites of passage
Contemporary
Primitive funeral rite
6. A culturally entrenched pattern of behavior made up of: 1) sacred beliefs -
Religion
Mobility
Socialization
Extended (joint) family
7. Of or characteristic of the present or recent times; not ancient - often used to
Funeral rite
Funeral
Modern
maturation
8. Social behavior as dictated by the tradition of the people.
Customs
Urbanization
Social function
Immediate disposition
9. The offspring or children of a specific set of parents
Sociology
Traditional funeral rite
Mobility
issue
10. Living or happening in the same period
Humanistic funeral rite
Blended family
Demographic
Contemporary
11. A household or family unit created by related nuclear
Memorial Service
Symbols
Modified extended family
Adaptive Funeral rite
12. The creation of a system which governs through departments and
Matriarchal
maturation
Bureaucratization
direct disposal
13. A funeral rite that follows a prescribed ritual or ceremony that
Enculturation (socialization)
Traditional funeral rite
Mores
Rites of passage
14. Behavioral patterns which are observable by others
overt conduct
Ethnocentrism
Sociology
Contemporary
15. The emotional attitude that one's own race - nation - group - or culture is
Ethnocentrism
Taboos
Demographic
Rites of passage
16. Any disposition of human remains - which is completely devoid
Immediate disposition
Mobility
indirect learning
Anonymity
17. Individual crafting of products is replaced by manufacture of goods
Cultural relativism
Mobility
Industrialization
Hospice
18. A social grouping in which members possess roughly equivalent culturally valued
thanatology
cremation (ritual
Class
Modified extended family
19. Rites of funeralization usually assoicated with pre-literature societies
Adaptive Funeral rite
Agarian
Ritual (ceremony
Primitive funeral rite
20. Being unknown
Anonymity
direct learning
maturation
Funeralization
21. The acquisition of the culture by a person through deliberate instruction by other members of that society
Ethnic
direct learning
Modern
Sociology
22. A process by which a person learns the norms of his culture by observation of others in his society.
overt conduct
indirect learning
Cohabitants
Ethnic
23. A household - or family unit consisting of one man and one woman
Extended (joint) family
direct disposal
Social mobility
Nuclear family
24. Two unrelated adults of the opposite sex sharing the same living quarters.
Beliefs
Funeral
Cohabitants
Industrialization
25. Must-behavior; the basic and important patterns of ideas and acts of a people as
Mores
Nuclear family
Neo-localism
issue
26. Like abstract patterns of and for living and dying - which are
Cultural universal
Folkways
Primitive funeral rite
Modified extended family
27. A must behavior not necessarily a basic or important pattern of a people (related to
Demographic
Immediate disposition
Non-traditional funeral rite
Law
28. Individual crafting of products is replaced by manufacture of goods
Industrialization
maturation
Agarian
Beliefs
29. Being unknown
Anonymity
Subculture
Ethnocentrism
direct learning
30. The combustion of a dead human body to its essential inorganic elements by rapid oxidation
Cultural universal
maturation
cremation (ritual
Adaptive Funeral rite
31. (enculturation)
Socialization
Society
Customs
Blended family
32. A process involving all activities associated with final disposition
Memorial Service
Nuclear family
Funeralization
cremation (ritual
33. Any acton performed during a rite which may or may not have symbolic meaning to the participants or observer of the acftion
Ceremony (ritual)
Immediate disposition
Socialization
Funeral rite
34. Funeral rites with the body not present
Patriarchal
Mores
maturation
Memorial Service
35. A funeral rite that is in essence devoid of religious
Humanistic funeral rite
overt conduct
Beliefs
Social mobility
36. Social behavior as dictated by the tradition of the people.
Customs
Ritual (ceremony
Hospice
Enculturation (socialization)
37. A division - or smaller identifiable unit of culture - connected to that culture
Matriarchal
Cohabitants
Subculture
Society
38. Specified methods of procedure
Rule
Class
Society
Mobility
39. Must-behavior; the basic and important patterns of ideas and acts of a people as
Memorial Service
Ritual (ceremony
Mores
Bureaucratization
40. Two unrelated adults of the opposite sex sharing the same living quarters.
Funeralization
Funeral
Cohabitants
Rite
41. Behavioral patterns which are observable by others
Memorial Service
overt conduct
Matriarchal
Religion
42. A group of persons forming a single community with some interests in
Funeralization
Society
Social mobility
Urbanization
43. Categorization of people by money - prestige and power; a ranking
cremation (ritual
Modern
direct learning
Social stratification
44. An all-inclusive term used to encompass all funerals and/or memorial
Egalitarian
Contemporary
Funeral rite
Rites of passage
45. A must behavior not necessarily a basic or important pattern of a people (related to
Class
futuristic
Law
Cohabitants
46. The method by which the social values are internalized
Patriarchal
cremation (ritual
Rites of passage
Enculturation (socialization)
47. 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
Funeralization
Non-traditional funeral rite
48. Pertaining to demography; the science of vital statistics or of births -
Customs
passive participant
Patriarchal
Demographic
49. Any society which exists in a stage of develpment prior to the invention of the written word in their culture
pre-literate society
Cultural relativism
Modified extended family
Non-traditional funeral rite
50. The emotional attitude that all cultures are equal and pertinent.
Modified extended family
Cultural relativism
Social function
Blended family