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Sociology Vocab
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1. Individual crafting of products is replaced by manufacture of goods
Industrialization
Mobility
indirect learning
Blended family
2. The acquisition of the culture by a person through deliberate instruction by other members of that society
Humanistic funeral rite
direct learning
Social mobility
Socialization
3. Behavioral patterns which are observable by others
Non-traditional funeral rite
overt conduct
Customs
Adaptive Funeral rite
4. Pertaining to demography; the science of vital statistics or of births -
Symbols
Demographic
issue
Society
5. A process by which a person learns the norms of his culture by observation of others in his society.
Religion
indirect learning
Folkways
Ceremony (ritual)
6. The change from rural to urban in character
Urbanization
direct disposal
Patriarchal
Ritual (ceremony
7. Must-behavior; the basic and important patterns of ideas and acts of a people as
Social function
Mores
Demographic
Society
8. A funeral rite that deviates from the normal or prescribed
Social mobility
Egalitarian
Non-traditional funeral rite
Adaptive Funeral rite
9. The acquisition of the culture by a person through deliberate instruction by other members of that society
passive participant
Ethnic
Modified extended family
direct learning
10. The state or quality of being mobile; the ability to move from place to place
Extended (joint) family
Mobility
Hospice
Modern
11. An all-inclusive term used to encompass all funerals and/or memorial
Ethnocentrism
Modern
maturation
Funeral rite
12. Things to which socially created meaning is given
Symbols
Patriarchal
Agarian
Social function
13. The combustion of a dead human body to its essential inorganic elements by rapid oxidation
Folkways
cremation (ritual
maturation
Society
14. An event that allows those who have something in common with each
direct learning
Blended family
Patriarchal
Social function
15. A culturally entrenched pattern of behavior made up of: 1) sacred beliefs -
Religion
Ritual (ceremony
Rites of passage
Sociology
16. 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
Religion
Cultural universal
Folkways
17. Any disposition of human remains - which is completely devoid
Immediate disposition
Beliefs
Agarian
Urbanization
18. The offspring or children of a specific set of parents
issue
Funeral rite
direct learning
Extended (joint) family
19. A philosophy which contends that one must seek life's meaning or fulfillment in the future rather than in the past or present
Matriarchal
futuristic
Enculturation (socialization)
pre-literate society
20. The science of social groups; the processes that tend to maintain or changethese forms of organizations and the relations between groups and individuals
Socialization
Contemporary
Cultural relativism
Sociology
21. (enculturation)
Demographic
Sociology
Social mobility
Socialization
22. A funeral rite that follows a prescribed ritual or ceremony that
Primitive funeral rite
Society
Traditional funeral rite
Ritual (ceremony
23. The change from rural to urban in character
Rites of passage
Urbanization
Ethnocentrism
Ceremony (ritual)
24. Individual crafting of products is replaced by manufacture of goods
Industrialization
Rite
Funeral rite
Subculture
25. Must behavior that dictates the individual must abstain from certain acts
Class
Taboos
Immediate disposition
Ethnocentrism
26. Behaviors which are construed as somewhat less compulsive than mores of the same society
Social mobility
Rites of passage
Urbanization
Folkways
27. Ceremonies centering around transition in life from one status to
Social mobility
Rites of passage
issue
Agarian
28. Any event performed in a solemn and prescribed manner
Socialization
Class
Rite
Social mobility
29. 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
Ethnocentrism
Class
Hospice
Traditional funeral rite
30. A funeral rite that is in essence devoid of religious
Rite
Contemporary
Funeral rite
Humanistic funeral rite
31. Rites with the body present
Funeral
Anonymity
Urbanization
Beliefs
32. The upward or downward movement of a person or family within the social classes of their society
Non-traditional funeral rite
Cohabitants
Social mobility
Cultural relativism
33. Being unknown
Anonymity
Social function
Rite
Hospice
34. A funeral rite that deviates from the normal or prescribed
thanatology
Cohabitants
Non-traditional funeral rite
Social stratification
35. The mother rules the family; a woman holding a position analogous to that
Cultural relativism
Mobility
Funeral
Matriarchal
36. A group of persons forming a single community with some interests in
Contemporary
Modified extended family
Mobility
Society
37. Behaviors which are construed as somewhat less compulsive than mores of the same society
Demographic
Sociology
Bureaucratization
folkways
38. The study of death derived from the name thanatos - God of Death
Class
cremation (ritual
thanatology
Modified extended family
39. Categorization of people by money - prestige and power; a ranking
Extended (joint) family
Cultural universal
Social stratification
Society
40. Rites of funeralization usually assoicated with pre-literature societies
Primitive funeral rite
Single parent family
Traditional funeral rite
Funeralization
41. Funeral rites with the body not present
Funeral
Memorial Service
Egalitarian
Cultural universal
42. A process involving all activities associated with final disposition
Primitive funeral rite
Rite
Rites of passage
Funeralization
43. A household - or family unit consisting of one man and one woman
Nuclear family
Single parent family
Urbanization
Symbols
44. Behaviors which are construed as somewhat less compulsive than mores of the same society
Symbols
Social mobility
Folkways
Ritual (ceremony
45. Any single action or series of actions performed during a rite which contains symbolic meanins to the participants and observers of the rite.
Humanistic funeral rite
Cohabitants
Ritual (ceremony
futuristic
46. A process by which a person learns the norms of his culture by observation of others in his society.
indirect learning
Egalitarian
Egalitarian
overt conduct
47. Dealing with agriculture
Enculturation (socialization)
Agarian
folkways
Blended family
48. Like abstract patterns of and for living and dying - which are
Ceremony (ritual)
Cultural universal
Extended (joint) family
Society
49. A household or family unit consisting of one adult - either male or
maturation
Anonymity
Funeral rite
Single parent family
50. Immediate disposition of the body with no form or funeral rite at the time of disposition
direct disposal
Folkways
Ethnocentrism
Law
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