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Sociology Vocab
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1. The acquisition of the culture by a person through deliberate instruction by other members of that society
Primitive funeral rite
Patriarchal
Extended (joint) family
direct learning
2. Existential (relating to - or dealing with existense) statements about the physical and social world
indirect learning
Cultural relativism
Beliefs
Law
3. A must behavior not necessarily a basic or important pattern of a people (related to
Enculturation (socialization)
Law
Modern
Funeralization
4. Any society which exists in a stage of develpment prior to the invention of the written word in their culture
Funeral rite
pre-literate society
Modified extended family
Egalitarian
5. The method by which the social values are internalized
Social stratification
Symbols
Enculturation (socialization)
cremation (ritual
6. Any disposition of human remains - which is completely devoid
Cultural relativism
Immediate disposition
Rule
Urbanization
7. A household or family unit consisting of one adult - either male or
Single parent family
issue
Rite
Primitive funeral rite
8. Rites with the body present
Modern
Urbanization
Society
Funeral
9. Any event performed in a solemn and prescribed manner
Rite
Folkways
Cultural universal
Blended family
10. The father rules the family; power is passed to the oldest male child
Patriarchal
Single parent family
Ethnic
Funeral rite
11. Immediate disposition of the body with no form or funeral rite at the time of disposition
Social mobility
direct disposal
Non-traditional funeral rite
overt conduct
12. The method by which the social values are internalized
Social function
Bureaucratization
Enculturation (socialization)
Law
13. Existential (relating to - or dealing with existense) statements about the physical and social world
Hospice
Social function
Enculturation (socialization)
Beliefs
14. Individual crafting of products is replaced by manufacture of goods
Immediate disposition
Primitive funeral rite
Industrialization
Cohabitants
15. Individual crafting of products is replaced by manufacture of goods
direct disposal
Traditional funeral rite
Agarian
Industrialization
16. The combustion of a dead human body to its essential inorganic elements by rapid oxidation
cremation (ritual
Bureaucratization
Social function
maturation
17. The state or quality of being mobile; the ability to move from place to place
Bureaucratization
Urbanization
direct disposal
Mobility
18. A social grouping in which members possess roughly equivalent culturally valued
Rule
Ethnic
Adaptive Funeral rite
Class
19. 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
Subculture
folkways
Hospice
Funeralization
20. Behavioral patterns which are observable by others
Ethnocentrism
Social mobility
Sociology
overt conduct
21. Must-behavior; the basic and important patterns of ideas and acts of a people as
Rite
Mores
Enculturation (socialization)
Egalitarian
22. The combustion of a dead human body to its essential inorganic elements by rapid oxidation
Anonymity
Bureaucratization
cremation (ritual
Demographic
23. The offspring or children of a specific set of parents
Patriarchal
Mores
Rites of passage
issue
24. Any disposition of human remains - which is completely devoid
Hospice
Blended family
Funeralization
Immediate disposition
25. A process by which a person learns the norms of his culture by observation of others in his society.
Patriarchal
Extended (joint) family
Demographic
indirect learning
26. (enculturation)
Non-traditional funeral rite
Socialization
direct disposal
Contemporary
27. Ceremonies centering around transition in life from one status to
issue
Symbols
Rites of passage
Matriarchal
28. Like abstract patterns of and for living and dying - which are
Cultural universal
Humanistic funeral rite
Single parent family
pre-literate society
29. A household or family unit consisting of father and mother - all
Blended family
Society
Extended (joint) family
Hospice
30. 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
direct learning
passive participant
cremation (ritual
31. A funeral rite that follows a prescribed ritual or ceremony that
Ceremony (ritual)
Ethnocentrism
Modern
Traditional funeral rite
32. The emotional attitude that one's own race - nation - group - or culture is
Social stratification
Ethnocentrism
Rule
pre-literate society
33. Being unknown
maturation
Social function
Memorial Service
Anonymity
34. The process of the emergence of personal charateristics and behavioral phenomena through endogenous growth processes.
Funeralization
Funeral rite
maturation
Blended family
35. The state or quality of being mobile; the ability to move from place to place
Anonymity
Mobility
thanatology
Adaptive Funeral rite
36. Behaviors which are construed as somewhat less compulsive than mores of the same society
Cultural universal
Hospice
Folkways
Mobility
37. Of or characteristic of the present or recent times; not ancient - often used to
thanatology
Extended (joint) family
Sociology
Modern
38. The change from rural to urban in character
cremation (ritual
Rites of passage
Funeral
Urbanization
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
Hospice
overt conduct
cremation (ritual
folkways
40. A group of persons forming a single community with some interests in
Demographic
Society
thanatology
maturation
41. Must-behavior; the basic and important patterns of ideas and acts of a people as
overt conduct
Funeral rite
Blended family
Mores
42. A culturally entrenched pattern of behavior made up of: 1) sacred beliefs -
Cultural universal
Religion
Primitive funeral rite
Demographic
43. A household or family unit created by related nuclear
Sociology
Modified extended family
Egalitarian
Beliefs
44. Specified methods of procedure
Industrialization
Class
Non-traditional funeral rite
Rule
45. The offspring or children of a specific set of parents
Non-traditional funeral rite
Patriarchal
issue
Modified extended family
46. 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
Demographic
Subculture
thanatology
47. A funeral rite that deviates from the normal or prescribed
overt conduct
Non-traditional funeral rite
Cultural relativism
Single parent family
48. Ceremonies centering around transition in life from one status to
Rites of passage
Ethnocentrism
Blended family
Anonymity
49. The study of death derived from the name thanatos - God of Death
Sociology
Enculturation (socialization)
thanatology
Nuclear family
50. Pertaining to demography; the science of vital statistics or of births -
Demographic
Folkways
Symbols
Ceremony (ritual)