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Sociology Vocabulary Flashcards

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The reduction of a dead human remains to its essential inorganic elements by use of fire.

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Cremation

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The tendency of off-spring to move away from the area in which they were born.

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Neo-localism

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Must-behavior which dictates the individual must abstain from certain acts dealing with death.

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Taboos

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The acquiring of the culture by a person through deliberate instruction by other members of that society.

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Direct Learning

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Arrangements between a funeral establishment and family which designates details of a funeral service, including the selection of merchandise, prior to the death of the person.

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Pre-need Programs

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The belief that the created is united with the creator at death.

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Doctrine of Atonement

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An all-inclusive term used to encompass all funerals and/or memorial services.

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Funeral Rite

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Funeral rites with the body NOT present.

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Memorial Service

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A household or family unit created by related nuclear families and/or friendships.

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Modified Extended Family

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The emotional attitude that all cultures are equal and pertinent.

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Cultural Relativism

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The science of social groups; the processes that tend to maintain or change these forms of organizations and the relations between groups and individuals.

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Sociology

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Behavioral patterns which are observable by others.

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Overt Conduct

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A funeral rite which may be construed as being identifiable with a preliterate society.

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Primitive Funeral Rite

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Rites with the body present.

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Funeral

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A funeral rite which deviates from the normal or prescribed.

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Non-traditional Funeral Rite

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Like abstract patterns of and for living and dying, which are identifiable in all cultures.

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Cultural Universal

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A division, or smaller identifiable unit of a culture, connected to that culture by common traits, having unique traits to itself.

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Subculture

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Existential statements about the physical and social world.

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Beliefs

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The creation of a system which governs through departments and subdivisions managed by sets of officials following an inflexible routine.

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Bureaucratization

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A household or family unit consisting of one man and one woman married to each other and their children, if any.

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Nuclear Family

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The offspring of a specific set of parents.

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Issue

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Any of the basic divisions or groups of mankind, distinguished by customs, characteristics, languages, rather than physical characteristics of race.

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Ethnic

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Categorization of people by money, prestige and power; a ranking of social status (position) in groups such as upper, middle and lower class.

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Social Stratification

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A household or family unit consisting of father and mother and all their children (except married daughters), their son’s wives and children (except married daughters).

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Extended Family (Joint Family)

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Social behavior as dictated by the tradition of the people.

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Customs

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Male and female have equal rights, duties, and governing power.

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Egalitarian

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Any event performed in a solemn and prescribed manner.

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Rite

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An event which allows those who have something in common with each other to deal with one another in regard to that which they share.

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Social Function

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Of or characteristic of the present or recent times; not ancient, often used to designate certain contemporary tendencies.

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Modern

30
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Two unrelated adults of the opposite sex sharing the same living quarters.

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Cohabitants

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Dealing with agriculture, farm based. The locale of the extended (joint) family system.

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Agrarian

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The study of death, derived from the name Thanatos, Greed god of death.

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Thanatology

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The sate of quality of being mobile; the ability to move from place to place readily, or to move from class to class; either up or down.

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Mobility

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A culture developed before the invention of writing, and hence, leaving no written record.

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Pre-literate Society

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An instrumental action dealing with death, that is also expressional and that may or may not be charged with symbolic content expression, among other things, the attitudes of the participants and possible onlookers (passive participants) who may be regarded as co-beneficiaries.

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Ceremony (Ritual)

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Living or happening in the same period.

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Contemporary

37
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A social grouping in which members possess roughly equivalent culturally valued attributes.

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Class

38
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The father rules the family; power is passed to the oldest male child.

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Patriarchal

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Specified methods of procedure.

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Rules

40
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The family into which one is born.

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Family of Orientation (Family of Origin)

41
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Individual crafting of products is replaced by manufacture of goods utilizing mass production techniques.

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Industrialization

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The change from rural to urban in character.

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Urbanization

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A process by which a person learns the norms of his culture by observation of others in his or her society.

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Indirect Learning

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A culturally entrenched pattern of behavior made up of: (1) sacred beliefs, (2) emotional feelings accompanying the beliefs, and (3) overt conduct presumably implementing the beliefs and feelings.

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Religion

45
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The emotional attitude that one’s own race, nation, group, or culture is superior to all others.

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Ethnocentrism

46
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Things to which socially created meaning is given.

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Symbols

47
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A funeral rite that follows a prescribed ritual or ceremony dictated ether by religious belief or social custom.

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Traditional Funeral Rite

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A group of persons forming a single community with some interests in common.

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Society

49
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Behaviors which are construed as somewhat less compulsive than mores of the same society and do not call for a strong reaction from the society if violated.

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Folkways

50
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The mother rules the family; a woman holding a position analogous to that of a patriarch.

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Matriarchal

51
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The method by which the social values are internalized (learned).

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Enculturation (Socialization)

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A must-behavior not necessarily a basic or important pattern of a people (related to death) but one which is enforced by those governing; a rule of action prescribed by an authority able to enforce its will.

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Law

53
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A household or family unit created by one male and one female and the children from their previous marriages and may include children from the present marriage.

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Blended Family

54
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A funeral rite that is adjusted to the needs and wants of those directly involved; one which has been altered to suit the trends of the times.

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Adaptive Funeral Rite

55
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A situation in which a person or entity is unknown.

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Anonymity

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Pertaining to demography, the science of vital statistics, or of births, deaths, marriages, ect. of populations.

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Demographic

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A household or family unit consisting of one adult, either male or female, and his/her children.

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Single Parent Family

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Must-behavior, the basic and important patterns of ideas and acts of a people as related to treatment of the dead, which calls for strong reaction from the society if violated.

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Mores

59
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Consists of abstract patterns (the rules, ideas, beliefs shared by members of society) of and for living and dying, which are learned directly or indirectly.

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Culture

60
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The family established by one’s marriage and the production of children.

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Family of Procreation

61
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Any disposition of a human remains which is completely devoid of any form of funeral rite at the time of disposition.

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Immediate Disposition

62
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Ceremonies centering around transition in life from one status to another (ex: Baptism, marriage and the funeral).

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Rites of Passage

63
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A funeral rite that is in essence devoid of religious connotation.

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Humanistic Funeral Rite

64
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A process involving all activities associated with final disposition

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Funeralization

65
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The upward or downward movement of a person or family within the social classes of their society.

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Social Mobility

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