SOC101

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Sociology

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Is the study of social groups
Their modes of organization, the processes which tend to maintain or change these forms and the relationships between the groups

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Founders of Sociology

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Greeks

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Thanatology

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The study of death

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Funeral Service

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Any rite performed when the body is present

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Memorial service

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A funeral rite held without the body

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Symbol-

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Anything to which socially created meaning is given

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Rite-

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Any EVENT performed in a solemn and prescribed manner

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Ritual

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Any action performed during a rite(event)which may or may not have symbolic meaning to the participants or observers of the action

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Rites of passage-

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Ceremonies centering around transitions in life from one status to another
*marriages funerals baptism

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Culture Universals

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Are common traits or patterns found in all cultures of human kind

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Culture Universal Statement

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Announcement of death
Care for the deceased
Disposition
Ceremony/Ritual
Memorialization

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Adaptive Funeral rite

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A funeral rite that is adjusted to the needs and wants of those directly involved

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Blended family

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a household or family unit involving family from previous marriages

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Culture

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Rules, ideas, beliefs shared by members of society for living and dying. Learned directly or indirectly

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Customs

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Social behavior as dictated by the tradition of the people

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Direct learning

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Learning culture directly from the members of that society

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Folkways

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Behaviors less compulsive than mores, don’t call for strong reaction

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Funeral

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Rites/event where the body is present

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Funeral rite

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All inclusive term to encompass all funerals and or memorial services

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Humanistic funeral rite

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A funeral without religious connotation

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Immediate disposition

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Direct burial/cremation No funeral rite

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Indirect learning

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

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Industrialization

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Individual crafting of products is replaced by manufacture of goods utllizing mass production techniques

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Memorial service

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Funeral rites without the body present

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Mores

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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 a strong reaction from the society if violated.

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Neo-localism-

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the tendency of offspring to move away from the area in which they were born

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Non-traditional funeral rite-

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a funeral rite that deviates from the normal or prescribed circumstances of established customs

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Nuclear family

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A household or family unit consisting of man/woman and their children

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Religion

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Is composed of entrenched behaviors which includes sacred beliefs emotional feelings about those beliefs and overt conduct

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Religion

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Is composed of entrenched behaviors high includes sacred beliefs, emotional feelings about those beliefs and overt conduct

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Social stratification

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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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Subculture

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

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Symbols

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Things to which socially created meaning is given

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Taboos

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Must behavior that dictates the individual must abstain from certain acts dealing w/ death

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Traditional funeral rite

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A funeral rite that follows a prescribed ritual or ceremony that may be dictated either by religious belief or social custom

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Enculturation

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the method by which the social values are internalized(learned)

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Cultural Relativism

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the emotional attitude that all cultures are equal and pertinent

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Urbanization

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Is the term used to describe the change from rural to urban

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Rural location

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Pertaining to the country/farm life agrarian

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Suburban location

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Pertaining to area outside of the city, gated communities, cluster homes

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Urban location

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Pertaining to the city,apartments buildings townhomes