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Sociology Vocab
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. A funeral rite that is in essence devoid of religious
Humanistic funeral rite
Egalitarian
Primitive funeral rite
Anonymity
2. A social grouping in which members possess roughly equivalent culturally valued
Rule
Class
Matriarchal
passive participant
3. Being unknown
Funeral rite
issue
Anonymity
Ritual (ceremony
4. Any society which exists in a stage of develpment prior to the invention of the written word in their culture
Symbols
Society
thanatology
pre-literate society
5. The offspring or children of a specific set of parents
Customs
Primitive funeral rite
issue
futuristic
6. An event that allows those who have something in common with each
overt conduct
Social function
Agarian
Social stratification
7. (enculturation)
Matriarchal
Socialization
Social stratification
Funeralization
8. The science of social groups; the processes that tend to maintain or changethese forms of organizations and the relations between groups and individuals
direct disposal
Sociology
Ethnic
Social mobility
9. A funeral rite that follows a prescribed ritual or ceremony that
Cultural universal
Nuclear family
Rule
Traditional funeral rite
10. Two unrelated adults of the opposite sex sharing the same living quarters.
Funeralization
Ritual (ceremony
Beliefs
Cohabitants
11. The acquisition of the culture by a person through deliberate instruction by other members of that society
direct learning
Industrialization
Social mobility
Funeralization
12. A process involving all activities associated with final disposition
Agarian
Beliefs
Demographic
Funeralization
13. Behaviors which are construed as somewhat less compulsive than mores of the same society
pre-literate society
folkways
Neo-localism
Egalitarian
14. Any of the basic divisions or groups of humankind distinguished by customs -
Bureaucratization
Extended (joint) family
Rite
Ethnic
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)
Bureaucratization
Modified extended family
Rule
16. The acquisition of the culture by a person through deliberate instruction by other members of that society
direct learning
Single parent family
Customs
Contemporary
17. The combustion of a dead human body to its essential inorganic elements by rapid oxidation
Ritual (ceremony
passive participant
Sociology
cremation (ritual
18. A philosophy which contends that one must seek life's meaning or fulfillment in the future rather than in the past or present
Symbols
futuristic
Patriarchal
Class
19. The upward or downward movement of a person or family within the social classes of their society
Matriarchal
Social mobility
Social stratification
Ceremony (ritual)
20. The emotional attitude that one's own race - nation - group - or culture is
Ritual (ceremony
Social stratification
Ethnocentrism
direct disposal
21. Funeral rites with the body not present
Folkways
Memorial Service
Funeralization
Industrialization
22. A household or family unit consisting of father and mother - all
Extended (joint) family
Symbols
Ceremony (ritual)
Humanistic funeral rite
23. Of or characteristic of the present or recent times; not ancient - often used to
Demographic
Modern
maturation
Bureaucratization
24. Any single action or series of actions performed during a rite which contains symbolic meanins to the participants and observers of the rite.
Traditional funeral rite
Adaptive Funeral rite
Ritual (ceremony
Customs
25. Categorization of people by money - prestige and power; a ranking
Matriarchal
Adaptive Funeral rite
folkways
Social stratification
26. Must behavior that dictates the individual must abstain from certain acts
Blended family
Symbols
Taboos
Subculture
27. The state or quality of being mobile; the ability to move from place to place
folkways
Cultural universal
Agarian
Mobility
28. A funeral rite that deviates from the normal or prescribed
Nuclear family
Non-traditional funeral rite
direct disposal
Extended (joint) family
29. One who participates in an event simply by listening and observing rather than by overt actions
Funeral
passive participant
Social mobility
Ethnic
30. Behaviors which are construed as somewhat less compulsive than mores of the same society
indirect learning
Folkways
Ceremony (ritual)
Ritual (ceremony
31. Rites of funeralization usually assoicated with pre-literature societies
Modern
Cultural relativism
Non-traditional funeral rite
Primitive funeral rite
32. Social behavior as dictated by the tradition of the people.
Customs
Adaptive Funeral rite
Ceremony (ritual)
maturation
33. A funeral rite that follows a prescribed ritual or ceremony that
Contemporary
Traditional funeral rite
Demographic
Funeral rite
34. The emotional attitude that all cultures are equal and pertinent.
Modified extended family
cremation (ritual
cremation (ritual
Cultural relativism
35. The change from rural to urban in character
Traditional funeral rite
Urbanization
overt conduct
thanatology
36. Individual crafting of products is replaced by manufacture of goods
Egalitarian
Adaptive Funeral rite
Industrialization
Non-traditional funeral rite
37. 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
thanatology
Patriarchal
direct disposal
Adaptive Funeral rite
38. A culturally entrenched pattern of behavior made up of: 1) sacred beliefs -
Customs
Religion
Neo-localism
Society
39. A social grouping in which members possess roughly equivalent culturally valued
Ethnic
folkways
overt conduct
Class
40. Things to which socially created meaning is given
Funeral rite
Matriarchal
Social mobility
Symbols
41. Any event performed in a solemn and prescribed manner
cremation (ritual
Egalitarian
Blended family
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
Blended family
Bureaucratization
Egalitarian
maturation
43. Any society which exists in a stage of develpment prior to the invention of the written word in their culture
Symbols
Single parent family
indirect learning
pre-literate society
44. The process of the emergence of personal charateristics and behavioral phenomena through endogenous growth processes.
Class
indirect learning
Rites of passage
maturation
45. The mother rules the family; a woman holding a position analogous to that
Traditional funeral rite
Matriarchal
Single parent family
Rule
46. The mother rules the family; a woman holding a position analogous to that
Matriarchal
issue
Ethnocentrism
Mores
47. Like abstract patterns of and for living and dying - which are
Ritual (ceremony
Industrialization
Cultural universal
Enculturation (socialization)
48. The offspring or children of a specific set of parents
Rule
issue
Cultural universal
Modified extended family
49. The tendency of offspring to move away from the area in which they were
pre-literate society
Ritual (ceremony
Religion
Neo-localism
50. 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
Nuclear family
folkways
Funeralization
Hospice