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Sociology Vocab
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1. Any single action or series of actions performed during a rite which contains symbolic meanins to the participants and observers of the rite.
cremation (ritual
Demographic
pre-literate society
Ritual (ceremony
2. One who participates in an event simply by listening and observing rather than by overt actions
Mores
Memorial Service
Nuclear family
passive participant
3. A culturally entrenched pattern of behavior made up of: 1) sacred beliefs -
Religion
Ethnic
Nuclear family
direct learning
4. The study of death derived from the name thanatos - God of Death
Cultural universal
direct learning
thanatology
Mores
5. (enculturation)
maturation
Ritual (ceremony
Socialization
Social function
6. Existential (relating to - or dealing with existense) statements about the physical and social world
maturation
pre-literate society
Single parent family
Beliefs
7. A household or family unit created by related nuclear
Anonymity
cremation (ritual
Modified extended family
Sociology
8. Must behavior that dictates the individual must abstain from certain acts
direct disposal
folkways
Social mobility
Taboos
9. The tendency of offspring to move away from the area in which they were
Social mobility
Social stratification
indirect learning
Neo-localism
10. A must behavior not necessarily a basic or important pattern of a people (related to
Law
Cultural relativism
Rites of passage
Urbanization
11. A household or family unit created by one male and one female from their previous marriages as well as children from the present marriage
Mobility
Hospice
Blended family
Non-traditional funeral rite
12. A social grouping in which members possess roughly equivalent culturally valued
Matriarchal
Class
Cultural universal
Ethnocentrism
13. Being unknown
folkways
Anonymity
Mobility
direct learning
14. (enculturation)
Folkways
Humanistic funeral rite
Socialization
Society
15. Things to which socially created meaning is given
Industrialization
overt conduct
Mores
Symbols
16. Rites with the body present
pre-literate society
Ceremony (ritual)
Funeral
direct learning
17. 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
futuristic
Nuclear family
Social stratification
18. A social grouping in which members possess roughly equivalent culturally valued
Class
passive participant
Anonymity
Cultural universal
19. Existential (relating to - or dealing with existense) statements about the physical and social world
Socialization
folkways
Rule
Beliefs
20. A division - or smaller identifiable unit of culture - connected to that culture
indirect learning
Primitive funeral rite
Society
Subculture
21. Any of the basic divisions or groups of humankind distinguished by customs -
Ethnic
Matriarchal
Ritual (ceremony
pre-literate society
22. A group of persons forming a single community with some interests in
Funeralization
Mores
Society
Matriarchal
23. A process by which a person learns the norms of his culture by observation of others in his society.
Rites of passage
indirect learning
Ethnocentrism
Class
24. Must-behavior; the basic and important patterns of ideas and acts of a people as
Rite
Mores
Symbols
thanatology
25. The acquisition of the culture by a person through deliberate instruction by other members of that society
indirect learning
Rule
Demographic
direct learning
26. Living or happening in the same period
overt conduct
Rule
Beliefs
Contemporary
27. The father rules the family; power is passed to the oldest male child
Class
thanatology
Immediate disposition
Patriarchal
28. The emotional attitude that all cultures are equal and pertinent.
Class
direct disposal
Society
Cultural relativism
29. Ceremonies centering around transition in life from one status to
Society
maturation
Extended (joint) family
Rites of passage
30. Categorization of people by money - prestige and power; a ranking
Social mobility
Symbols
Social stratification
Immediate disposition
31. Any acton performed during a rite which may or may not have symbolic meaning to the participants or observer of the acftion
folkways
Ceremony (ritual)
Folkways
Patriarchal
32. The offspring or children of a specific set of parents
Industrialization
Anonymity
issue
Mores
33. A household or family unit consisting of one adult - either male or
Law
Ethnic
indirect learning
Single parent family
34. The upward or downward movement of a person or family within the social classes of their society
Funeralization
Immediate disposition
Social mobility
Ethnocentrism
35. A household or family unit consisting of father and mother - all
Cohabitants
Extended (joint) family
Matriarchal
Class
36. Two unrelated adults of the opposite sex sharing the same living quarters.
Bureaucratization
Cohabitants
Primitive funeral rite
Subculture
37. The method by which the social values are internalized
direct disposal
cremation (ritual
Enculturation (socialization)
Symbols
38. Any society which exists in a stage of develpment prior to the invention of the written word in their culture
Matriarchal
Religion
Mores
pre-literate society
39. The combustion of a dead human body to its essential inorganic elements by rapid oxidation
direct learning
Mobility
Urbanization
cremation (ritual
40. Any disposition of human remains - which is completely devoid
Immediate disposition
Bureaucratization
pre-literate society
Traditional funeral rite
41. A funeral rite that is in essence devoid of religious
Single parent family
direct learning
Taboos
Humanistic funeral rite
42. Specified methods of procedure
Rule
Beliefs
Beliefs
passive participant
43. Any of the basic divisions or groups of humankind distinguished by customs -
Society
Cohabitants
Rites of passage
Ethnic
44. A process by which a person learns the norms of his culture by observation of others in his society.
Primitive funeral rite
indirect learning
Anonymity
Neo-localism
45. Specified methods of procedure
Beliefs
issue
Rule
Patriarchal
46. A process involving all activities associated with final disposition
Society
Funeralization
Class
Social function
47. Any society which exists in a stage of develpment prior to the invention of the written word in their culture
Law
pre-literate society
Religion
Extended (joint) family
48. A household or family unit consisting of father and mother - all
Class
Extended (joint) family
Non-traditional funeral rite
Cultural universal
49. The process of the emergence of personal charateristics and behavioral phenomena through endogenous growth processes.
Contemporary
maturation
Folkways
Blended family
50. A funeral rite that deviates from the normal or prescribed
Society
futuristic
Religion
Non-traditional funeral rite
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