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Sociology Vocab
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1. An event that allows those who have something in common with each
pre-literate society
indirect learning
Mobility
Social function
2. The emotional attitude that all cultures are equal and pertinent.
maturation
Social mobility
Subculture
Cultural relativism
3. The mother rules the family; a woman holding a position analogous to that
Customs
Matriarchal
Industrialization
Social function
4. Like abstract patterns of and for living and dying - which are
Bureaucratization
Socialization
Law
Cultural universal
5. A funeral rite that deviates from the normal or prescribed
Non-traditional funeral rite
thanatology
Cultural universal
Mores
6. A process involving all activities associated with final disposition
Funeralization
Society
Egalitarian
Class
7. A social grouping in which members possess roughly equivalent culturally valued
Agarian
Hospice
Funeral
Class
8. Existential (relating to - or dealing with existense) statements about the physical and social world
Beliefs
Subculture
Ceremony (ritual)
Patriarchal
9. Male and female have equal rights - duties and governing power.
Rule
Egalitarian
futuristic
Enculturation (socialization)
10. Living or happening in the same period
Contemporary
Law
Subculture
Egalitarian
11. The mother rules the family; a woman holding a position analogous to that
Rule
Class
Matriarchal
Modern
12. Any of the basic divisions or groups of humankind distinguished by customs -
Subculture
Ethnic
Mobility
Rites of passage
13. Social behavior as dictated by the tradition of the people.
Memorial Service
Customs
Anonymity
futuristic
14. The father rules the family; power is passed to the oldest male child
Patriarchal
passive participant
Blended family
cremation (ritual
15. Any acton performed during a rite which may or may not have symbolic meaning to the participants or observer of the acftion
Ceremony (ritual)
Folkways
direct disposal
Contemporary
16. An all-inclusive term used to encompass all funerals and/or memorial
Funeral rite
Memorial Service
Traditional funeral rite
Anonymity
17. Existential (relating to - or dealing with existense) statements about the physical and social world
Cultural universal
Mobility
Beliefs
Enculturation (socialization)
18. The state or quality of being mobile; the ability to move from place to place
issue
indirect learning
Symbols
Mobility
19. The acquisition of the culture by a person through deliberate instruction by other members of that society
Sociology
Cultural universal
direct learning
Taboos
20. 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
Adaptive Funeral rite
Bureaucratization
Extended (joint) family
Customs
21. Immediate disposition of the body with no form or funeral rite at the time of disposition
Rite
Customs
Patriarchal
direct disposal
22. A group of persons forming a single community with some interests in
Funeral rite
Society
Beliefs
Single parent family
23. Must behavior that dictates the individual must abstain from certain acts
Ethnocentrism
Non-traditional funeral rite
overt conduct
Taboos
24. The creation of a system which governs through departments and
Bureaucratization
Law
Folkways
Sociology
25. The study of death derived from the name thanatos - God of Death
Ritual (ceremony
Traditional funeral rite
thanatology
passive participant
26. The method by which the social values are internalized
folkways
Rule
Patriarchal
Enculturation (socialization)
27. Any society which exists in a stage of develpment prior to the invention of the written word in their culture
pre-literate society
thanatology
Rites of passage
Social stratification
28. The study of death derived from the name thanatos - God of Death
indirect learning
Social function
futuristic
thanatology
29. A funeral rite that is in essence devoid of religious
folkways
Blended family
Humanistic funeral rite
Enculturation (socialization)
30. A philosophy which contends that one must seek life's meaning or fulfillment in the future rather than in the past or present
Funeral
Beliefs
folkways
futuristic
31. Of or characteristic of the present or recent times; not ancient - often used to
Ethnocentrism
Taboos
Agarian
Modern
32. The change from rural to urban in character
Bureaucratization
Urbanization
Neo-localism
Contemporary
33. Any of the basic divisions or groups of humankind distinguished by customs -
Ethnocentrism
Single parent family
Rule
Ethnic
34. Being unknown
Anonymity
Industrialization
Social stratification
Contemporary
35. A process by which a person learns the norms of his culture by observation of others in his society.
Law
indirect learning
Immediate disposition
folkways
36. Of or characteristic of the present or recent times; not ancient - often used to
Ethnic
Modern
Modified extended family
thanatology
37. Behaviors which are construed as somewhat less compulsive than mores of the same society
folkways
direct disposal
Cultural universal
Modified extended family
38. The upward or downward movement of a person or family within the social classes of their society
direct learning
Folkways
Modified extended family
Social mobility
39. 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
Modern
Demographic
Hospice
Socialization
40. A household or family unit created by one male and one female from their previous marriages as well as children from the present marriage
Blended family
Social function
Adaptive Funeral rite
Urbanization
41. A funeral rite that follows a prescribed ritual or ceremony that
Rites of passage
Traditional funeral rite
issue
Funeral rite
42. A household or family unit created by one male and one female from their previous marriages as well as children from the present marriage
Anonymity
indirect learning
Memorial Service
Blended family
43. Any event performed in a solemn and prescribed manner
Anonymity
indirect learning
Rite
Blended family
44. Categorization of people by money - prestige and power; a ranking
Social stratification
Primitive funeral rite
direct disposal
Extended (joint) family
45. Any single action or series of actions performed during a rite which contains symbolic meanins to the participants and observers of the rite.
overt conduct
Ritual (ceremony
Cultural universal
direct learning
46. A household - or family unit consisting of one man and one woman
Nuclear family
Contemporary
Religion
Class
47. Male and female have equal rights - duties and governing power.
Symbols
Primitive funeral rite
Egalitarian
Enculturation (socialization)
48. A household or family unit consisting of father and mother - all
thanatology
Ethnic
Funeral rite
Extended (joint) family
49. An all-inclusive term used to encompass all funerals and/or memorial
Immediate disposition
Funeral
Hospice
Funeral rite
50. One who participates in an event simply by listening and observing rather than by overt actions
direct disposal
Blended family
passive participant
Taboos