Sociology /Mors 200 Arts Final - Sociology Vocabulary Part 2
Living or happening in the same period.
Contemporary
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Definition
Living or happening in the same period.
Contemporary
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A social grouping in which members possess roughly equivalent culturally valued attributes.
Class
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The father rules the family; power is passed to the oldest male child.
Patriarchal
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Specified methods of procedure.
Rules
The family into which one is born.
Family of Orientation (Family of Origin)
Individual crafting of products is replaced by manufacture of goods utilizing mass production techniques.
Industrialization
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| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
Living or happening in the same period. | Contemporary |
A social grouping in which members possess roughly equivalent culturally valued attributes. | Class |
The father rules the family; power is passed to the oldest male child. | Patriarchal |
Specified methods of procedure. | Rules |
The family into which one is born. | Family of Orientation (Family of Origin) |
Individual crafting of products is replaced by manufacture of goods utilizing mass production techniques. | Industrialization |
The change from rural to urban in character. | Urbanization |
A process by which a person learns the norms of his culture by observation of others in his or her society. | Indirect Learning |
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. | Religion |
The emotional attitude that one's own race, nation, group, or culture is superior to all others. | Ethnocentrism |
Things to which socially created meaning is given. | Symbols |
A funeral rite that follows a prescribed ritual or ceremony dictated either by religious belief or social custom. | Traditional Funeral Rite |
A group of persons forming a single community with some interests in common. | Society |
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. | Folkways |
The mother rules the family; a woman holding a position analogous to that of a patriarch. | Matriarchal |
The method by which the social values are internalized (learned). | Enculturation (Socialization) |
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. | Law |
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. | Blended Family |
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. | Adaptive Funeral Rite |
A situation in which a person or entity is unknown. | Anonymity |
Pertaining to demography, the science of vital statistics, or of births, deaths, marriages, etc. of populations. | Demographic |
A household or family unit consisting of one adult, either male or female, and his/her children. | Single Parent Family |
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. | Mores |
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. | Culture |
The family established by one's marriage and the production of children. | Family of Procreation |
Any disposition of a human remains which is completely devoid of any form of funeral rite at the time of disposition. | Immediate Disposition |
Ceremonies centering around transition in life from one status to another (ex: Baptism, marriage and the funeral). | Rites of Passage |
A funeral rite that is in essence devoid of religious connotation. | Humanistic Funeral Rite |
A process involving all activities associated with final disposition. | Funeralization |
The upward or downward movement of a person or family within the social classes of their society. | Social Mobility |