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Sociology Vocab
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1. Must-behavior; the basic and important patterns of ideas and acts of a people as
Bureaucratization
Mores
Anonymity
Beliefs
2. Two unrelated adults of the opposite sex sharing the same living quarters.
Funeralization
issue
Agarian
Cohabitants
3. A must behavior not necessarily a basic or important pattern of a people (related to
maturation
overt conduct
Single parent family
Law
4. Rites with the body present
Symbols
Law
Sociology
Funeral
5. The emotional attitude that all cultures are equal and pertinent.
cremation (ritual
Bureaucratization
Cultural relativism
Folkways
6. Must-behavior; the basic and important patterns of ideas and acts of a people as
Ceremony (ritual)
Mobility
Cultural universal
Mores
7. A must behavior not necessarily a basic or important pattern of a people (related to
Matriarchal
Class
Law
Urbanization
8. The process of the emergence of personal charateristics and behavioral phenomena through endogenous growth processes.
maturation
Demographic
issue
Cultural universal
9. Any society which exists in a stage of develpment prior to the invention of the written word in their culture
Social function
Beliefs
pre-literate society
thanatology
10. Specified methods of procedure
Rule
Funeral
Symbols
Patriarchal
11. Behaviors which are construed as somewhat less compulsive than mores of the same society
folkways
Subculture
Modified extended family
Ethnocentrism
12. A funeral rite that is in essence devoid of religious
Urbanization
Humanistic funeral rite
Funeral
Matriarchal
13. Male and female have equal rights - duties and governing power.
Industrialization
Customs
Bureaucratization
Egalitarian
14. The emotional attitude that one's own race - nation - group - or culture is
Mobility
thanatology
Egalitarian
Ethnocentrism
15. The method by which the social values are internalized
Enculturation (socialization)
cremation (ritual
Socialization
Nuclear family
16. A household or family unit consisting of father and mother - all
Demographic
Extended (joint) family
folkways
maturation
17. The father rules the family; power is passed to the oldest male child
Contemporary
Social mobility
Humanistic funeral rite
Patriarchal
18. A philosophy which contends that one must seek life's meaning or fulfillment in the future rather than in the past or present
folkways
Cultural relativism
folkways
futuristic
19. A division - or smaller identifiable unit of culture - connected to that culture
Subculture
folkways
thanatology
Demographic
20. A culturally entrenched pattern of behavior made up of: 1) sacred beliefs -
Immediate disposition
Customs
Religion
Neo-localism
21. Any disposition of human remains - which is completely devoid
Taboos
Immediate disposition
Rule
Modified extended family
22. Of or characteristic of the present or recent times; not ancient - often used to
cremation (ritual
Modern
direct learning
maturation
23. The change from rural to urban in character
Industrialization
Taboos
Urbanization
Funeral
24. A household - or family unit consisting of one man and one woman
Beliefs
overt conduct
Mores
Nuclear family
25. Ceremonies centering around transition in life from one status to
Social stratification
Primitive funeral rite
cremation (ritual
Rites of passage
26. Must behavior that dictates the individual must abstain from certain acts
Beliefs
Taboos
Cultural relativism
Ritual (ceremony
27. The study of death derived from the name thanatos - God of Death
Sociology
thanatology
indirect learning
Bureaucratization
28. One who participates in an event simply by listening and observing rather than by overt actions
Immediate disposition
Extended (joint) family
passive participant
Adaptive Funeral rite
29. The emotional attitude that all cultures are equal and pertinent.
Egalitarian
Nuclear family
Cultural relativism
Primitive funeral rite
30. Social behavior as dictated by the tradition of the people.
Customs
Modern
futuristic
Neo-localism
31. Pertaining to demography; the science of vital statistics or of births -
Demographic
direct disposal
Law
Enculturation (socialization)
32. Behaviors which are construed as somewhat less compulsive than mores of the same society
Primitive funeral rite
folkways
Sociology
Cultural universal
33. One who participates in an event simply by listening and observing rather than by overt actions
passive participant
Demographic
Class
Funeralization
34. The combustion of a dead human body to its essential inorganic elements by rapid oxidation
Neo-localism
cremation (ritual
Egalitarian
passive participant
35. The acquisition of the culture by a person through deliberate instruction by other members of that society
Customs
Agarian
Extended (joint) family
direct learning
36. The offspring or children of a specific set of parents
Rites of passage
issue
Religion
Nuclear family
37. The change from rural to urban in character
Cultural relativism
Immediate disposition
Urbanization
Extended (joint) family
38. Categorization of people by money - prestige and power; a ranking
Agarian
pre-literate society
Social stratification
Hospice
39. Any of the basic divisions or groups of humankind distinguished by customs -
Blended family
Ethnic
thanatology
Nuclear family
40. Dealing with agriculture
Agarian
Social mobility
Rite
Socialization
41. Individual crafting of products is replaced by manufacture of goods
Symbols
Social function
Funeralization
Industrialization
42. Like abstract patterns of and for living and dying - which are
Ethnic
Matriarchal
futuristic
Cultural universal
43. Any event performed in a solemn and prescribed manner
Cultural relativism
folkways
Traditional funeral rite
Rite
44. The tendency of offspring to move away from the area in which they were
Bureaucratization
Extended (joint) family
Social function
Neo-localism
45. A division - or smaller identifiable unit of culture - connected to that culture
Sociology
Social stratification
Subculture
Taboos
46. Existential (relating to - or dealing with existense) statements about the physical and social world
Folkways
Rites of passage
Funeral
Beliefs
47. Like abstract patterns of and for living and dying - which are
Bureaucratization
Funeral rite
Humanistic funeral rite
Cultural universal
48. A funeral rite that follows a prescribed ritual or ceremony that
Traditional funeral rite
Blended family
thanatology
Agarian
49. Any acton performed during a rite which may or may not have symbolic meaning to the participants or observer of the acftion
Social mobility
Sociology
Matriarchal
Ceremony (ritual)
50. The mother rules the family; a woman holding a position analogous to that
Religion
Matriarchal
Rites of passage
indirect learning