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Sociology Vocab
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1. Any disposition of human remains - which is completely devoid
Memorial Service
Blended family
Social stratification
Immediate disposition
2. Of or characteristic of the present or recent times; not ancient - often used to
Non-traditional funeral rite
pre-literate society
Modern
Industrialization
3. Pertaining to demography; the science of vital statistics or of births -
Single parent family
Adaptive Funeral rite
Demographic
Beliefs
4. 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
Nuclear family
Class
Adaptive Funeral rite
Immediate disposition
5. Behaviors which are construed as somewhat less compulsive than mores of the same society
Mobility
Primitive funeral rite
Adaptive Funeral rite
Folkways
6. Any of the basic divisions or groups of humankind distinguished by customs -
Socialization
Ethnic
Blended family
Ceremony (ritual)
7. Any disposition of human remains - which is completely devoid
Social stratification
Adaptive Funeral rite
Cohabitants
Immediate disposition
8. The upward or downward movement of a person or family within the social classes of their society
Traditional funeral rite
Social mobility
Cohabitants
Social stratification
9. One who participates in an event simply by listening and observing rather than by overt actions
passive participant
Society
Cultural relativism
futuristic
10. Individual crafting of products is replaced by manufacture of goods
Industrialization
Society
Modern
pre-literate society
11. Ceremonies centering around transition in life from one status to
Customs
Rites of passage
pre-literate society
Cultural universal
12. Two unrelated adults of the opposite sex sharing the same living quarters.
Cultural relativism
Social mobility
Extended (joint) family
Cohabitants
13. Living or happening in the same period
Urbanization
Social mobility
Contemporary
futuristic
14. 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
Funeral rite
thanatology
Rule
15. Of or characteristic of the present or recent times; not ancient - often used to
Enculturation (socialization)
Beliefs
Modern
Mobility
16. Any single action or series of actions performed during a rite which contains symbolic meanins to the participants and observers of the rite.
passive participant
Ritual (ceremony
Memorial Service
Rite
17. Behavioral patterns which are observable by others
Traditional funeral rite
overt conduct
Subculture
Extended (joint) family
18. Ceremonies centering around transition in life from one status to
Rites of passage
Subculture
Mores
Symbols
19. Social behavior as dictated by the tradition of the people.
Cohabitants
Customs
Rite
Folkways
20. The tendency of offspring to move away from the area in which they were
Class
cremation (ritual
Neo-localism
issue
21. The study of death derived from the name thanatos - God of Death
Funeral
thanatology
Law
Society
22. The creation of a system which governs through departments and
Beliefs
Blended family
Bureaucratization
Cultural universal
23. A social grouping in which members possess roughly equivalent culturally valued
Folkways
Traditional funeral rite
Rites of passage
Class
24. A funeral rite that follows a prescribed ritual or ceremony that
Class
Enculturation (socialization)
Ethnocentrism
Traditional funeral rite
25. Must behavior that dictates the individual must abstain from certain acts
Adaptive Funeral rite
Taboos
overt conduct
Matriarchal
26. The emotional attitude that all cultures are equal and pertinent.
Egalitarian
Neo-localism
Cultural relativism
Religion
27. Social behavior as dictated by the tradition of the people.
Social function
Memorial Service
issue
Customs
28. The science of social groups; the processes that tend to maintain or changethese forms of organizations and the relations between groups and individuals
Nuclear family
Industrialization
Sociology
thanatology
29. Any of the basic divisions or groups of humankind distinguished by customs -
Ethnic
Funeral rite
Neo-localism
Agarian
30. Must behavior that dictates the individual must abstain from certain acts
Symbols
Memorial Service
Taboos
Matriarchal
31. Immediate disposition of the body with no form or funeral rite at the time of disposition
Law
direct disposal
Society
Taboos
32. A group of persons forming a single community with some interests in
Cultural relativism
Ceremony (ritual)
Funeralization
Society
33. A household - or family unit consisting of one man and one woman
Nuclear family
Immediate disposition
Modified extended family
Neo-localism
34. The tendency of offspring to move away from the area in which they were
Customs
Neo-localism
Demographic
Funeralization
35. Things to which socially created meaning is given
Modern
Symbols
Cultural relativism
Modified extended family
36. Pertaining to demography; the science of vital statistics or of births -
Rites of passage
Cultural universal
Demographic
pre-literate society
37. A process involving all activities associated with final disposition
Social stratification
Subculture
Beliefs
Funeralization
38. The state or quality of being mobile; the ability to move from place to place
Funeral rite
Mobility
Sociology
Immediate disposition
39. The process of the emergence of personal charateristics and behavioral phenomena through endogenous growth processes.
Industrialization
maturation
Humanistic funeral rite
Hospice
40. The emotional attitude that one's own race - nation - group - or culture is
Enculturation (socialization)
Ethnocentrism
overt conduct
maturation
41. The combustion of a dead human body to its essential inorganic elements by rapid oxidation
Urbanization
Social mobility
cremation (ritual
Mobility
42. Specified methods of procedure
Cultural universal
Immediate disposition
Rule
folkways
43. The acquisition of the culture by a person through deliberate instruction by other members of that society
Ritual (ceremony
Social stratification
direct learning
Traditional funeral rite
44. Being unknown
Anonymity
Enculturation (socialization)
cremation (ritual
Rule
45. A funeral rite that deviates from the normal or prescribed
Ritual (ceremony
Extended (joint) family
Mores
Non-traditional funeral rite
46. One who participates in an event simply by listening and observing rather than by overt actions
Ethnocentrism
Beliefs
Folkways
passive participant
47. An all-inclusive term used to encompass all funerals and/or memorial
issue
Rites of passage
Social mobility
Funeral rite
48. The change from rural to urban in character
folkways
Urbanization
Hospice
Neo-localism
49. Things to which socially created meaning is given
Adaptive Funeral rite
Symbols
direct learning
Social stratification
50. A must behavior not necessarily a basic or important pattern of a people (related to
Law
Egalitarian
Memorial Service
indirect learning