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Sociology Vocab
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1. Pertaining to demography; the science of vital statistics or of births -
Demographic
Single parent family
Class
Rite
2. An all-inclusive term used to encompass all funerals and/or memorial
Extended (joint) family
Folkways
Socialization
Funeral rite
3. A division - or smaller identifiable unit of culture - connected to that culture
Subculture
Socialization
Contemporary
Taboos
4. A household or family unit consisting of father and mother - all
Modified extended family
Extended (joint) family
pre-literate society
Society
5. Any disposition of human remains - which is completely devoid
Cohabitants
Anonymity
Bureaucratization
Immediate disposition
6. Being unknown
Funeral rite
Hospice
Anonymity
Social function
7. The study of death derived from the name thanatos - God of Death
Adaptive Funeral rite
Mobility
Folkways
thanatology
8. Rites with the body present
Ethnic
Hospice
Demographic
Funeral
9. A pholosyphy of care where a home-like atmosphere is provided for the termianally ill allowing for the family to be close at the time of death
Memorial Service
Hospice
direct disposal
Modern
10. Immediate disposition of the body with no form or funeral rite at the time of disposition
direct disposal
Mores
Extended (joint) family
pre-literate society
11. The upward or downward movement of a person or family within the social classes of their society
Social mobility
Modified extended family
cremation (ritual
Rite
12. Like abstract patterns of and for living and dying - which are
Beliefs
Customs
Hospice
Cultural universal
13. Rites with the body present
Funeral
Primitive funeral rite
Extended (joint) family
Neo-localism
14. The process of the emergence of personal charateristics and behavioral phenomena through endogenous growth processes.
Taboos
direct disposal
maturation
direct disposal
15. A funeral rite that deviates from the normal or prescribed
Sociology
Non-traditional funeral rite
Adaptive Funeral rite
Rite
16. Any disposition of human remains - which is completely devoid
Mobility
Ritual (ceremony
Immediate disposition
Urbanization
17. Social behavior as dictated by the tradition of the people.
folkways
Customs
passive participant
Bureaucratization
18. A philosophy which contends that one must seek life's meaning or fulfillment in the future rather than in the past or present
Social function
futuristic
Ethnocentrism
Folkways
19. Categorization of people by money - prestige and power; a ranking
Contemporary
Cultural universal
Humanistic funeral rite
Social stratification
20. (enculturation)
Funeral
Socialization
futuristic
Class
21. Existential (relating to - or dealing with existense) statements about the physical and social world
passive participant
Society
direct learning
Beliefs
22. The father rules the family; power is passed to the oldest male child
Primitive funeral rite
Modified extended family
Extended (joint) family
Patriarchal
23. Categorization of people by money - prestige and power; a ranking
Demographic
Neo-localism
Primitive funeral rite
Social stratification
24. A household or family unit consisting of one adult - either male or
pre-literate society
Single parent family
Adaptive Funeral rite
Social function
25. The upward or downward movement of a person or family within the social classes of their society
Ritual (ceremony
cremation (ritual
Social mobility
Cultural relativism
26. The change from rural to urban in character
Urbanization
issue
Rite
Demographic
27. Rites of funeralization usually assoicated with pre-literature societies
Blended family
Primitive funeral rite
Rule
Beliefs
28. Living or happening in the same period
Socialization
Contemporary
Modified extended family
Egalitarian
29. A process by which a person learns the norms of his culture by observation of others in his society.
indirect learning
Socialization
Beliefs
Single parent family
30. The acquisition of the culture by a person through deliberate instruction by other members of that society
passive participant
direct learning
indirect learning
Rite
31. Must behavior that dictates the individual must abstain from certain acts
thanatology
Taboos
Agarian
Cultural universal
32. The emotional attitude that one's own race - nation - group - or culture is
Subculture
Ethnocentrism
pre-literate society
Ritual (ceremony
33. Any of the basic divisions or groups of humankind distinguished by customs -
Ethnic
Society
Beliefs
Mores
34. The mother rules the family; a woman holding a position analogous to that
Industrialization
Egalitarian
Matriarchal
Funeralization
35. A funeral rite that follows a prescribed ritual or ceremony that
futuristic
Traditional funeral rite
Primitive funeral rite
Urbanization
36. A culturally entrenched pattern of behavior made up of: 1) sacred beliefs -
Cohabitants
Demographic
Religion
Social mobility
37. Any single action or series of actions performed during a rite which contains symbolic meanins to the participants and observers of the rite.
Beliefs
Ethnic
Ritual (ceremony
passive participant
38. A division - or smaller identifiable unit of culture - connected to that culture
Mores
Immediate disposition
Cohabitants
Subculture
39. Specified methods of procedure
Rule
Primitive funeral rite
Funeral rite
pre-literate society
40. Funeral rites with the body not present
Memorial Service
Enculturation (socialization)
Agarian
Religion
41. Existential (relating to - or dealing with existense) statements about the physical and social world
Non-traditional funeral rite
Neo-localism
Enculturation (socialization)
Beliefs
42. A process by which a person learns the norms of his culture by observation of others in his society.
folkways
Bureaucratization
Urbanization
indirect learning
43. The tendency of offspring to move away from the area in which they were
cremation (ritual
Neo-localism
Funeral rite
Customs
44. A household or family unit created by one male and one female from their previous marriages as well as children from the present marriage
Taboos
Blended family
Immediate disposition
Urbanization
45. One who participates in an event simply by listening and observing rather than by overt actions
Rites of passage
Blended family
passive participant
maturation
46. Any acton performed during a rite which may or may not have symbolic meaning to the participants or observer of the acftion
Ceremony (ritual)
Memorial Service
Folkways
Humanistic funeral rite
47. Being unknown
Anonymity
Subculture
direct disposal
Law
48. Two unrelated adults of the opposite sex sharing the same living quarters.
Primitive funeral rite
Cohabitants
futuristic
Primitive funeral rite
49. Behavioral patterns which are observable by others
passive participant
Egalitarian
Ethnocentrism
overt conduct
50. An all-inclusive term used to encompass all funerals and/or memorial
Rule
Funeral rite
Mobility
Class