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Sociology Vocab
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1. A culturally entrenched pattern of behavior made up of: 1) sacred beliefs -
Religion
Bureaucratization
Humanistic funeral rite
Rule
2. Immediate disposition of the body with no form or funeral rite at the time of disposition
Funeralization
direct disposal
Memorial Service
Folkways
3. Like abstract patterns of and for living and dying - which are
Non-traditional funeral rite
Cultural universal
Blended family
Neo-localism
4. The mother rules the family; a woman holding a position analogous to that
Matriarchal
indirect learning
issue
Modern
5. Categorization of people by money - prestige and power; a ranking
Funeral
direct learning
Funeral
Social stratification
6. Any society which exists in a stage of develpment prior to the invention of the written word in their culture
Social function
Subculture
Hospice
pre-literate society
7. Individual crafting of products is replaced by manufacture of goods
Industrialization
Funeralization
Beliefs
Social stratification
8. The emotional attitude that all cultures are equal and pertinent.
Cultural relativism
Industrialization
Nuclear family
Ritual (ceremony
9. A philosophy which contends that one must seek life's meaning or fulfillment in the future rather than in the past or present
Funeralization
Ceremony (ritual)
futuristic
Humanistic funeral rite
10. Any of the basic divisions or groups of humankind distinguished by customs -
Funeralization
Ritual (ceremony
Ethnic
Subculture
11. Being unknown
Funeral
Memorial Service
Ritual (ceremony
Anonymity
12. The study of death derived from the name thanatos - God of Death
Symbols
overt conduct
thanatology
Class
13. Living or happening in the same period
Enculturation (socialization)
Modern
Contemporary
Nuclear family
14. Things to which socially created meaning is given
Contemporary
Traditional funeral rite
Ritual (ceremony
Symbols
15. The upward or downward movement of a person or family within the social classes of their society
indirect learning
Funeral
Social mobility
folkways
16. The state or quality of being mobile; the ability to move from place to place
issue
Mobility
Funeral rite
Society
17. 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
Folkways
Funeral
passive participant
18. Must behavior that dictates the individual must abstain from certain acts
Nuclear family
Extended (joint) family
Taboos
Customs
19. The combustion of a dead human body to its essential inorganic elements by rapid oxidation
Non-traditional funeral rite
Folkways
cremation (ritual
Matriarchal
20. A process by which a person learns the norms of his culture by observation of others in his society.
Rule
indirect learning
direct disposal
Demographic
21. Male and female have equal rights - duties and governing power.
cremation (ritual
Bureaucratization
Egalitarian
Ceremony (ritual)
22. A funeral rite that deviates from the normal or prescribed
Social stratification
Non-traditional funeral rite
Socialization
Social function
23. A process involving all activities associated with final disposition
Non-traditional funeral rite
Memorial Service
Ritual (ceremony
Funeralization
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
folkways
futuristic
Cultural relativism
Hospice
25. The science of social groups; the processes that tend to maintain or changethese forms of organizations and the relations between groups and individuals
Folkways
Industrialization
Mobility
Sociology
26. A philosophy which contends that one must seek life's meaning or fulfillment in the future rather than in the past or present
Social mobility
Modified extended family
direct disposal
futuristic
27. Pertaining to demography; the science of vital statistics or of births -
Anonymity
Single parent family
Enculturation (socialization)
Demographic
28. The method by which the social values are internalized
Class
Enculturation (socialization)
Primitive funeral rite
Socialization
29. Any acton performed during a rite which may or may not have symbolic meaning to the participants or observer of the acftion
Contemporary
thanatology
Ceremony (ritual)
passive participant
30. The creation of a system which governs through departments and
Symbols
Society
Patriarchal
Bureaucratization
31. Any acton performed during a rite which may or may not have symbolic meaning to the participants or observer of the acftion
Ceremony (ritual)
Rule
Taboos
Agarian
32. Behaviors which are construed as somewhat less compulsive than mores of the same society
folkways
Memorial Service
Egalitarian
Social mobility
33. Social behavior as dictated by the tradition of the people.
Customs
Ethnocentrism
Industrialization
Law
34. Things to which socially created meaning is given
cremation (ritual
Anonymity
Symbols
direct disposal
35. A process by which a person learns the norms of his culture by observation of others in his society.
Mores
direct disposal
indirect learning
Funeralization
36. The creation of a system which governs through departments and
Single parent family
Humanistic funeral rite
Taboos
Bureaucratization
37. The state or quality of being mobile; the ability to move from place to place
Mobility
Sociology
Social stratification
Law
38. Ceremonies centering around transition in life from one status to
Mores
Modern
Rites of passage
Law
39. Any society which exists in a stage of develpment prior to the invention of the written word in their culture
pre-literate society
Ethnocentrism
Hospice
Social mobility
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
Sociology
Urbanization
Modified extended family
41. A household or family unit created by related nuclear
Extended (joint) family
Modified extended family
maturation
Sociology
42. Any event performed in a solemn and prescribed manner
Rite
Subculture
Class
Social stratification
43. The acquisition of the culture by a person through deliberate instruction by other members of that society
Class
direct learning
Ceremony (ritual)
Society
44. An all-inclusive term used to encompass all funerals and/or memorial
Extended (joint) family
Cultural universal
cremation (ritual
Funeral rite
45. A social grouping in which members possess roughly equivalent culturally valued
folkways
pre-literate society
Class
Ethnocentrism
46. A group of persons forming a single community with some interests in
maturation
indirect learning
Society
Anonymity
47. A household or family unit created by one male and one female from their previous marriages as well as children from the present marriage
Ethnic
Contemporary
Blended family
Primitive funeral rite
48. Any event performed in a solemn and prescribed manner
Demographic
Rite
cremation (ritual
Urbanization
49. The science of social groups; the processes that tend to maintain or changethese forms of organizations and the relations between groups and individuals
Adaptive Funeral rite
Sociology
Mores
direct disposal
50. Rites of funeralization usually assoicated with pre-literature societies
Class
Primitive funeral rite
Ethnocentrism
Beliefs