Sociology Flashcards
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
Dealing with agriculture, farm based. The locale of the extended (joint) family system.
AGRARIAN
A situation in which a person or entity is unknown.
ANONYMITY
Existential statements about the physical and social world.
BELIEFS
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
The creation of a system which governs through departments and subdivisions managed by sets of officials following an inflexible routine.
BUREAUCRATIZATION
An instrumental action dealing with death, that is also expressional and that may or may not be charged with symbolic content expressing, among other things, the attitudes of the participants and possible onlookers (passive participants) who may be regarded as co-beneficiaries.
CEREMONY aka RITUAL
A social grouping in which members possess roughly equivalent culturally valued attributes.
CLASS
Two unrelated adults of the opposite sex sharing the same living quarters.
COHABITANTS
Living or happening in the same period.
CONTEMPORARY
The reduction of a dead human remains to its essential inorganic elements by use of fire.
CREMATION
The emotional attitude that all cultures are equal and pertinent.
CULTURAL RELATIVISM
Like abstract patterns of and for living and dying, which are identifiable in all cultures.
CULTURAL UNIVERSAL
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
Social behavior as dictated by the tradition of the people.
CUSTOMS
Pertaining to demography; the science of vital statistics, or of births, deaths, marriages, etc. of populations.
DEMOGRAPHIC
The acquiring of the culture by a person through deliberate instruction by other members of that society.
DIRECT LEARNING
The belief that the created is reunited with the creator at death.
DOCTRINE OF ATONEMENT
Male and female have equal rights, duties, and governing power.
EGALITARIAN
The method by which the social values are internalized (learned).
ENCULTURATION aka SOCIALIZATION
Any of the basic divisions or groups of mankind, distinguished by customs, characteristics, languages, rather than physical characteristics of race.
ETHNIC
The emotional attitude that one’s own race, nation, group, or culture is superior to all others.
ETHNOCENTRISM
A household or family unit consisting of father and mother, all their children (except married daughters), their son’s wives and children (except married daughters).
EXTENDED FAMILY aka JOINT FAMILY
The family into which one is born.
FAMILY OF ORIENTATION aka FAMILY OF ORIGIN
The family established by one’s marriage and the production of children.
FAMILY OF PROCREATION
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