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First Quarter Final Exam Flashcards

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1
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Mores

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patterns of ideas and acts with great moral significance
“must” behaviors

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Ethnocentrism

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  • The view that one’s own race, nation, group or culture
    is superior to all others.
  • The world should be viewed using my culture as the
    measure of what is proper.
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Cultural Relativism

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The view that all cultures are important and should be
considered when judging people’s behavior

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Sociology

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The study of the development, structure and functioning of human society

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Taboos

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A forbidden act considered so offensive to norms, as to be reviled and unthinkable

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Customs

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  • regular, patterned behavior
    A cultural idea that describes a regular, patterned behavior that is considered characteristic of life in a social system
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Folkways

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  • provides a traditional mode of conduct
    The learned behavior shared by a social group that provides a traditional mode of conduct
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Laws

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A formal or informal rule or standard enacted by a political entity and enforced by agents with recognized authority as the police or the courts

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Rules

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  • acceptable and appropriate actions
    Defined acceptable and appropriate actions within a given group or community, thus guiding human behavior
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Cohort

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group of people experienceing things together

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Generation

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type of cohort of people born around the same time

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Religion

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Pattern of behavior including sacred beliefs, feelings about their beliefs, and conducts that implement the beliefs and feelings

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Cultural Universal

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Patterns of living and dying that are common in all cultures
ex. all cultures check for death before burial/disposition

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Enculturation

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Method of internalizing social values

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Modern

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refers to present times

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Contemporary

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living or happening in the same period

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Subculture

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division of culture having a commmon trait

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Culture

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  • patterns shared by a society
    Patterns (rules, ideas, beliefs) shared by members of society, learned directly or indirectly
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Society

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  • group with common interests
    groups of persons forming a single community who have interests in common
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Norms

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  • how group should behave
    group belief of how members should behave in a given situation
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Demographics

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The study/science of vital statistics (births, death, marriages etc)

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Statistics

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Process of making meaning of data

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Life Expectancy

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Proportion of people who have died within a time period compared to the number of people in the population

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Infant Mortality Rate

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Number of live birth infants dying in the first year of life

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Cause of death

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that condition or injury (or circumstances of the injury) that initiated the train of morbid events

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Functions of the family

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support, teach, impart values and culture, protect

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Nuclear Family

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Mother Father and Children

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Extended Family

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Mother Father and Children and others live in same home

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Modified Extended Family

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Nuclear in the house, but nearby relative act as extended family

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Single Parent Family

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One parent in household

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Blended family

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Remarried mother and father, children from previous relationships and from new marriage

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Patriarchal Family

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Father makes decisions

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Matriarchal Family

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Mother makes decisions

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Egalitarian Family

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Both mother and father make decisions

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Joint family

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Always patriarchal, usually rural, sons inherit property, daughter is married off

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Cohabitants

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People living together as if married, but not married

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Civil Union

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a legally recognized union with rights similar to those of marriage,

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Death accepting culture

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A society that accepts death and views death as a natural part of life

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Death defying culture

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A society that believes that nothing changes or is lost after death (life goes on)

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Death denying culture

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A society that suggests that death is not natural; avoids the idea of death

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Class

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Social grouping based on culturally valued attributes

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Social Stratification

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Categorizing people into social classes

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Mobility/Class Mobility

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Ability to move to a different social class

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Rite

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an event preformed in a solemn (serious)and prescribed(written) manner

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Traditional funeral rite

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funeral that follows customs or religious practices

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Adaptive Funeral

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a funeral where changes are made by the family

47
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Humanistic funeral

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no mention of God

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Primative Funeral Rite

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early death rituals,

49
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Euphemisms for death

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expressions used to avoid saying death
talk about death, not meaning it

50
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Green movement

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acceptance and use of better funeral practices for the planet

51
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Changes in dispostion (trends)

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more cremation
more green burial options
less religious envolvement

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Industrialization

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Changing from handmade to machine made products

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Urbanization

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change in community where society is more urban, less rural

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Bureaucratization

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a complex organization that has multilayered systems and processes, and inflexible rules

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Neo-localization

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the ability to move from where you were born

56
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Statistics on hospice care

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growing trend
2/3 of US will use hospice

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Geographic mobility

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Ability to move to a different region

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Funeral

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Body present

59
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Memorial service

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Body not present

60
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Funeral rite

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A general term for both memorials and funerals

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