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Sociology Vocab
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1. A social grouping in which members possess roughly equivalent culturally valued
Cohabitants
Hospice
Class
Modified extended family
2. A group of persons forming a single community with some interests in
Society
Anonymity
pre-literate society
Egalitarian
3. Any of the basic divisions or groups of humankind distinguished by customs -
Class
Ethnic
Society
Primitive funeral rite
4. The offspring or children of a specific set of parents
Social mobility
issue
Modern
direct learning
5. A household or family unit created by related nuclear
indirect learning
Immediate disposition
cremation (ritual
Modified extended family
6. Must behavior that dictates the individual must abstain from certain acts
Funeralization
Cohabitants
Ethnocentrism
Taboos
7. Any of the basic divisions or groups of humankind distinguished by customs -
Ethnic
Rite
Beliefs
overt conduct
8. 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
Sociology
Ritual (ceremony
Primitive funeral rite
Hospice
9. A household or family unit consisting of father and mother - all
Extended (joint) family
Traditional funeral rite
Ritual (ceremony
Ethnocentrism
10. A must behavior not necessarily a basic or important pattern of a people (related to
folkways
Social mobility
Law
thanatology
11. A culturally entrenched pattern of behavior made up of: 1) sacred beliefs -
pre-literate society
Religion
Humanistic funeral rite
Contemporary
12. A philosophy which contends that one must seek life's meaning or fulfillment in the future rather than in the past or present
futuristic
overt conduct
Funeral
direct disposal
13. An event that allows those who have something in common with each
Humanistic funeral rite
Social function
Traditional funeral rite
folkways
14. Categorization of people by money - prestige and power; a ranking
Social stratification
Contemporary
Ethnic
Rule
15. Living or happening in the same period
Ritual (ceremony
Contemporary
Ceremony (ritual)
Rites of passage
16. Behaviors which are construed as somewhat less compulsive than mores of the same society
Ethnocentrism
folkways
Ethnocentrism
Agarian
17. Things to which socially created meaning is given
Hospice
Funeral rite
Matriarchal
Symbols
18. Social behavior as dictated by the tradition of the people.
Egalitarian
direct learning
Socialization
Customs
19. Pertaining to demography; the science of vital statistics or of births -
passive participant
Patriarchal
Demographic
Modified extended family
20. Like abstract patterns of and for living and dying - which are
maturation
cremation (ritual
Cultural universal
maturation
21. Any event performed in a solemn and prescribed manner
Beliefs
Rite
pre-literate society
pre-literate society
22. (enculturation)
Socialization
Humanistic funeral rite
Single parent family
Primitive funeral rite
23. A division - or smaller identifiable unit of culture - connected to that culture
Subculture
pre-literate society
overt conduct
pre-literate society
24. 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
Taboos
Hospice
Funeralization
Industrialization
25. The tendency of offspring to move away from the area in which they were
Social stratification
Rite
Neo-localism
Symbols
26. Must-behavior; the basic and important patterns of ideas and acts of a people as
Traditional funeral rite
Mores
Cultural relativism
Patriarchal
27. Funeral rites with the body not present
Mobility
Memorial Service
Mobility
Ritual (ceremony
28. A funeral rite that is in essence devoid of religious
thanatology
Industrialization
Class
Humanistic funeral rite
29. Two unrelated adults of the opposite sex sharing the same living quarters.
Agarian
Traditional funeral rite
Cohabitants
Mores
30. The acquisition of the culture by a person through deliberate instruction by other members of that society
direct learning
folkways
Memorial Service
Humanistic funeral rite
31. Rites of funeralization usually assoicated with pre-literature societies
Folkways
Subculture
Primitive funeral rite
folkways
32. The upward or downward movement of a person or family within the social classes of their society
Social mobility
futuristic
Sociology
thanatology
33. Two unrelated adults of the opposite sex sharing the same living quarters.
Cohabitants
Humanistic funeral rite
direct disposal
Rites of passage
34. A must behavior not necessarily a basic or important pattern of a people (related to
Beliefs
Urbanization
Non-traditional funeral rite
Law
35. A household or family unit created by related nuclear
Mores
Modified extended family
Industrialization
Sociology
36. The method by which the social values are internalized
Ethnocentrism
Social stratification
Enculturation (socialization)
Religion
37. The process of the emergence of personal charateristics and behavioral phenomena through endogenous growth processes.
Cultural universal
maturation
Extended (joint) family
Socialization
38. A philosophy which contends that one must seek life's meaning or fulfillment in the future rather than in the past or present
overt conduct
futuristic
Matriarchal
Bureaucratization
39. The state or quality of being mobile; the ability to move from place to place
Immediate disposition
folkways
Primitive funeral rite
Mobility
40. Categorization of people by money - prestige and power; a ranking
Ritual (ceremony
Social stratification
Cultural relativism
Immediate disposition
41. An event that allows those who have something in common with each
Social function
Social stratification
Funeralization
Social mobility
42. Behavioral patterns which are observable by others
indirect learning
Agarian
overt conduct
maturation
43. Being unknown
Extended (joint) family
Bureaucratization
indirect learning
Anonymity
44. A process by which a person learns the norms of his culture by observation of others in his society.
Ethnocentrism
indirect learning
Demographic
Mobility
45. Male and female have equal rights - duties and governing power.
Egalitarian
Social mobility
issue
Hospice
46. A household or family unit consisting of one adult - either male or
Ethnic
passive participant
Single parent family
Bureaucratization
47. Any event performed in a solemn and prescribed manner
Mobility
Rite
Beliefs
Funeral
48. A household or family unit created by one male and one female from their previous marriages as well as children from the present marriage
pre-literate society
Social mobility
Blended family
Egalitarian
49. Things to which socially created meaning is given
Bureaucratization
Symbols
passive participant
Non-traditional funeral rite
50. Existential (relating to - or dealing with existense) statements about the physical and social world
Immediate disposition
Beliefs
Demographic
cremation (ritual