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Sociology Vocab
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1. An event that allows those who have something in common with each
overt conduct
Social function
Extended (joint) family
Primitive funeral rite
2. Individual crafting of products is replaced by manufacture of goods
Society
pre-literate society
Sociology
Industrialization
3. Any acton performed during a rite which may or may not have symbolic meaning to the participants or observer of the acftion
Cultural universal
Funeralization
Ritual (ceremony
Ceremony (ritual)
4. A funeral rite that is in essence devoid of religious
Rite
Adaptive Funeral rite
Humanistic funeral rite
Extended (joint) family
5. (enculturation)
Socialization
Enculturation (socialization)
folkways
Funeralization
6. Any society which exists in a stage of develpment prior to the invention of the written word in their culture
pre-literate society
Society
Single parent family
Symbols
7. Any single action or series of actions performed during a rite which contains symbolic meanins to the participants and observers of the rite.
Ritual (ceremony
Hospice
Rite
Blended family
8. Any single action or series of actions performed during a rite which contains symbolic meanins to the participants and observers of the rite.
Modern
direct disposal
Mobility
Ritual (ceremony
9. Behavioral patterns which are observable by others
Subculture
thanatology
overt conduct
Mobility
10. Categorization of people by money - prestige and power; a ranking
Matriarchal
thanatology
Law
Social stratification
11. Must-behavior; the basic and important patterns of ideas and acts of a people as
passive participant
Religion
Mores
pre-literate society
12. Of or characteristic of the present or recent times; not ancient - often used to
Mobility
Anonymity
Society
Modern
13. A group of persons forming a single community with some interests in
Funeral rite
Society
Anonymity
thanatology
14. Existential (relating to - or dealing with existense) statements about the physical and social world
Cultural relativism
Patriarchal
Beliefs
Adaptive Funeral rite
15. The change from rural to urban in character
Ritual (ceremony
Urbanization
Modified extended family
Socialization
16. A philosophy which contends that one must seek life's meaning or fulfillment in the future rather than in the past or present
Funeralization
Society
Rite
futuristic
17. The study of death derived from the name thanatos - God of Death
Blended family
Rule
Beliefs
thanatology
18. Ceremonies centering around transition in life from one status to
Society
Bureaucratization
issue
Rites of passage
19. The science of social groups; the processes that tend to maintain or changethese forms of organizations and the relations between groups and individuals
Law
Sociology
Ethnic
Subculture
20. Immediate disposition of the body with no form or funeral rite at the time of disposition
Blended family
Symbols
Ethnic
direct disposal
21. The process of the emergence of personal charateristics and behavioral phenomena through endogenous growth processes.
Law
direct learning
overt conduct
maturation
22. Categorization of people by money - prestige and power; a ranking
Social stratification
Egalitarian
Egalitarian
folkways
23. A funeral rite that is in essence devoid of religious
Blended family
Humanistic funeral rite
Mobility
Cultural universal
24. A must behavior not necessarily a basic or important pattern of a people (related to
Law
Matriarchal
Society
direct learning
25. The father rules the family; power is passed to the oldest male child
cremation (ritual
Patriarchal
passive participant
thanatology
26. Any of the basic divisions or groups of humankind distinguished by customs -
pre-literate society
Ethnic
maturation
Mores
27. Must behavior that dictates the individual must abstain from certain acts
Taboos
Anonymity
Ceremony (ritual)
Anonymity
28. Behaviors which are construed as somewhat less compulsive than mores of the same society
Subculture
Urbanization
thanatology
Folkways
29. Immediate disposition of the body with no form or funeral rite at the time of disposition
direct disposal
Patriarchal
Agarian
direct learning
30. Dealing with agriculture
Sociology
passive participant
Bureaucratization
Agarian
31. An event that allows those who have something in common with each
Social function
Rite
Blended family
direct disposal
32. The upward or downward movement of a person or family within the social classes of their society
Social stratification
Social mobility
Urbanization
Cohabitants
33. The combustion of a dead human body to its essential inorganic elements by rapid oxidation
Beliefs
Folkways
cremation (ritual
Ethnocentrism
34. A social grouping in which members possess roughly equivalent culturally valued
Mores
Industrialization
Class
direct learning
35. The acquisition of the culture by a person through deliberate instruction by other members of that society
Ethnocentrism
Funeral rite
direct learning
Contemporary
36. The process of the emergence of personal charateristics and behavioral phenomena through endogenous growth processes.
Cultural universal
overt conduct
maturation
Neo-localism
37. The emotional attitude that one's own race - nation - group - or culture is
Cultural relativism
Traditional funeral rite
Ethnocentrism
cremation (ritual
38. A funeral rite that deviates from the normal or prescribed
Ethnocentrism
Non-traditional funeral rite
Traditional funeral rite
Law
39. Rites of funeralization usually assoicated with pre-literature societies
Social function
folkways
Symbols
Primitive funeral rite
40. A household or family unit consisting of one adult - either male or
Patriarchal
Memorial Service
Cohabitants
Single parent family
41. A process by which a person learns the norms of his culture by observation of others in his society.
indirect learning
cremation (ritual
Nuclear family
Beliefs
42. 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
Memorial Service
Matriarchal
Law
Adaptive Funeral rite
43. (enculturation)
Primitive funeral rite
Ethnocentrism
Socialization
Neo-localism
44. Rites of funeralization usually assoicated with pre-literature societies
Primitive funeral rite
Hospice
indirect learning
pre-literate society
45. Funeral rites with the body not present
Sociology
Memorial Service
Beliefs
Patriarchal
46. A household or family unit created by related nuclear
Modified extended family
Egalitarian
Non-traditional funeral rite
Bureaucratization
47. Any acton performed during a rite which may or may not have symbolic meaning to the participants or observer of the acftion
Folkways
Rites of passage
pre-literate society
Ceremony (ritual)
48. The offspring or children of a specific set of parents
issue
Humanistic funeral rite
cremation (ritual
Subculture
49. A household or family unit consisting of one adult - either male or
Social mobility
Patriarchal
Law
Single parent family
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
Rite
Egalitarian
Hospice
Customs