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Sociology Vocab
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1. The father rules the family; power is passed to the oldest male child
indirect learning
Patriarchal
Agarian
Ritual (ceremony
2. A process by which a person learns the norms of his culture by observation of others in his society.
indirect learning
Contemporary
Traditional funeral rite
Ceremony (ritual)
3. Any single action or series of actions performed during a rite which contains symbolic meanins to the participants and observers of the rite.
Class
Ritual (ceremony
Rule
Modern
4. Of or characteristic of the present or recent times; not ancient - often used to
issue
Modern
Cohabitants
Rite
5. A social grouping in which members possess roughly equivalent culturally valued
Class
Contemporary
passive participant
Funeral
6. The creation of a system which governs through departments and
Industrialization
Bureaucratization
Social stratification
Matriarchal
7. Rites with the body present
Funeral
Primitive funeral rite
Taboos
Enculturation (socialization)
8. Any of the basic divisions or groups of humankind distinguished by customs -
Adaptive Funeral rite
Hospice
Ethnic
Funeralization
9. Any single action or series of actions performed during a rite which contains symbolic meanins to the participants and observers of the rite.
Patriarchal
Memorial Service
Social function
Ritual (ceremony
10. A funeral rite that deviates from the normal or prescribed
Subculture
Taboos
Non-traditional funeral rite
Customs
11. An all-inclusive term used to encompass all funerals and/or memorial
Religion
Rite
Funeral rite
Extended (joint) family
12. Behavioral patterns which are observable by others
Funeralization
Social mobility
Mores
overt conduct
13. Like abstract patterns of and for living and dying - which are
Symbols
Cultural universal
Mores
Cultural relativism
14. Of or characteristic of the present or recent times; not ancient - often used to
Modern
pre-literate society
Anonymity
Ethnocentrism
15. Behaviors which are construed as somewhat less compulsive than mores of the same society
folkways
Humanistic funeral rite
Demographic
Modified extended family
16. A funeral rite that deviates from the normal or prescribed
Extended (joint) family
Primitive funeral rite
direct disposal
Non-traditional funeral rite
17. A household or family unit consisting of father and mother - all
Cultural universal
Contemporary
Neo-localism
Extended (joint) family
18. Individual crafting of products is replaced by manufacture of goods
thanatology
Industrialization
Patriarchal
passive participant
19. The offspring or children of a specific set of parents
Demographic
Single parent family
issue
Bureaucratization
20. The upward or downward movement of a person or family within the social classes of their society
Social mobility
direct disposal
futuristic
Ritual (ceremony
21. 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
Immediate disposition
Adaptive Funeral rite
Hospice
Cohabitants
22. A division - or smaller identifiable unit of culture - connected to that culture
Subculture
Extended (joint) family
Cohabitants
Symbols
23. Two unrelated adults of the opposite sex sharing the same living quarters.
Cohabitants
Nuclear family
Modern
Rite
24. Pertaining to demography; the science of vital statistics or of births -
Demographic
Customs
direct learning
Anonymity
25. The combustion of a dead human body to its essential inorganic elements by rapid oxidation
Folkways
cremation (ritual
Mobility
Adaptive Funeral rite
26. The science of social groups; the processes that tend to maintain or changethese forms of organizations and the relations between groups and individuals
Blended family
Sociology
issue
Industrialization
27. Specified methods of procedure
Rule
indirect learning
Rites of passage
Subculture
28. A household or family unit created by one male and one female from their previous marriages as well as children from the present marriage
overt conduct
Traditional funeral rite
Blended family
Ethnic
29. Any society which exists in a stage of develpment prior to the invention of the written word in their culture
Funeral rite
pre-literate society
Adaptive Funeral rite
direct disposal
30. 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
Adaptive Funeral rite
Social mobility
maturation
Ritual (ceremony
31. Any disposition of human remains - which is completely devoid
Patriarchal
Industrialization
Agarian
Immediate disposition
32. Behaviors which are construed as somewhat less compulsive than mores of the same society
overt conduct
Folkways
Matriarchal
Hospice
33. Things to which socially created meaning is given
Customs
indirect learning
Symbols
Ethnocentrism
34. A must behavior not necessarily a basic or important pattern of a people (related to
Memorial Service
Cultural universal
Law
Ceremony (ritual)
35. The tendency of offspring to move away from the area in which they were
Bureaucratization
Neo-localism
Nuclear family
Rule
36. The method by which the social values are internalized
Neo-localism
Funeral rite
Enculturation (socialization)
cremation (ritual
37. A household or family unit consisting of one adult - either male or
Symbols
Beliefs
Single parent family
Folkways
38. Two unrelated adults of the opposite sex sharing the same living quarters.
Funeral rite
Non-traditional funeral rite
overt conduct
Cohabitants
39. A philosophy which contends that one must seek life's meaning or fulfillment in the future rather than in the past or present
folkways
Mobility
futuristic
maturation
40. A process involving all activities associated with final disposition
issue
Funeral
Ritual (ceremony
Funeralization
41. A funeral rite that follows a prescribed ritual or ceremony that
thanatology
Social mobility
Traditional funeral rite
Rule
42. Living or happening in the same period
Contemporary
Modern
Beliefs
Social stratification
43. Rites with the body present
Blended family
Taboos
Funeral
pre-literate society
44. Rites of funeralization usually assoicated with pre-literature societies
Customs
Primitive funeral rite
Mobility
Ceremony (ritual)
45. A household or family unit consisting of father and mother - all
Extended (joint) family
Beliefs
Religion
Adaptive Funeral rite
46. The acquisition of the culture by a person through deliberate instruction by other members of that society
direct learning
Rites of passage
Sociology
Ceremony (ritual)
47. The change from rural to urban in character
Urbanization
Neo-localism
Bureaucratization
direct disposal
48. Male and female have equal rights - duties and governing power.
pre-literate society
indirect learning
Egalitarian
Ceremony (ritual)
49. The method by which the social values are internalized
Traditional funeral rite
Enculturation (socialization)
direct disposal
Egalitarian
50. Behaviors which are construed as somewhat less compulsive than mores of the same society
Single parent family
futuristic
Memorial Service
folkways
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