First Quarter Final Exam

Question 1

Mores

Answer 1

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

Question 2

Ethnocentrism

Answer 2

• 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.

Question 3

Cultural Relativism

Answer 3

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

Question 4

Sociology

Answer 4

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

Question 5

Taboos

Answer 5

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

Question 6

Customs

Answer 6

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

Question 7

Folkways

Answer 7

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

Question 8

Laws

Answer 8

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

Question 9

Rules

Answer 9

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

Question 10

Cohort

Answer 10

group of people experienceing things together

Question 11

Generation

Answer 11

type of cohort of people born around the same time

Question 12

Religion

Answer 12

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

Question 13

Cultural Universal

Answer 13

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

Question 14

Enculturation

Answer 14

Method of internalizing social values

Question 15

Modern

Answer 15

refers to present times

Question 16

Contemporary

Answer 16

living or happening in the same period

Question 17

Subculture

Answer 17

division of culture having a commmon trait

Question 18

Culture

Answer 18

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

Question 19

Society

Answer 19

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

Question 20

Norms

Answer 20

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

Question 21

Demographics

Answer 21

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

Question 22

Statistics

Answer 22

Process of making meaning of data

Question 23

Life Expectancy

Answer 23

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

Question 24

Infant Mortality Rate

Answer 24

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

Question 25

Cause of death

Answer 25

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

Question 26

Functions of the family

Answer 26

support, teach, impart values and culture, protect

Question 27

Nuclear Family

Answer 27

Mother Father and Children

Question 28

Extended Family

Answer 28

Mother Father and Children and others live in same home

Question 29

Modified Extended Family

Answer 29

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

Question 30

Single Parent Family

Answer 30

One parent in household

Question 31

Blended family

Answer 31

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

Question 32

Patriarchal Family

Answer 32

Father makes decisions

Question 33

Matriarchal Family

Answer 33

Mother makes decisions

Question 34

Egalitarian Family

Answer 34

Both mother and father make decisions

Question 35

Joint family

Answer 35

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

Question 36

Cohabitants

Answer 36

People living together as if married, but not married

Question 37

Civil Union

Answer 37

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

Question 38

Death accepting culture

Answer 38

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

Question 39

Death defying culture

Answer 39

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

Question 40

Death denying culture

Answer 40

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

Question 41

Class

Answer 41

Social grouping based on culturally valued attributes

Question 42

Social Stratification

Answer 42

Categorizing people into social classes

Question 43

Mobility/Class Mobility

Answer 43

Ability to move to a different social class

Question 44

Rite

Answer 44

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

Question 45

Traditional funeral rite

Answer 45

funeral that follows customs or religious practices

Question 46

Adaptive Funeral

Answer 46

a funeral where changes are made by the family

Question 47

Humanistic funeral

Answer 47

no mention of God

Question 48

Primative Funeral Rite

Answer 48

early death rituals,

Question 49

Euphemisms for death

Answer 49

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

Question 50

Green movement

Answer 50

acceptance and use of better funeral practices for the planet

Question 51

Changes in dispostion (trends)

Answer 51

more cremation more green burial options less religious envolvement

Question 52

Industrialization

Answer 52

Changing from handmade to machine made products

Question 53

Urbanization

Answer 53

change in community where society is more urban, less rural

Question 54

Bureaucratization

Answer 54

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

Question 55

Neo-localization

Answer 55

the ability to move from where you were born

Question 56

Statistics on hospice care

Answer 56

growing trend 2/3 of US will use hospice

Question 57

Geographic mobility

Answer 57

Ability to move to a different region

Question 58

Funeral

Answer 58

Body present

Question 59

Memorial service

Answer 59

Body not present

Question 60

Funeral rite

Answer 60

A general term for both memorials and funerals