Sociology Vocabulary Flashcards
The reduction of a dead human remains to its essential inorganic elements by use of fire.
Cremation
The tendency of off-spring to move away from the area in which they were born.
Neo-localism
Must-behavior which dictates the individual must abstain from certain acts dealing with death.
Taboos
The acquiring of the culture by a person through deliberate instruction by other members of that society.
Direct Learning
Arrangements between a funeral establishment and family which designates details of a funeral service, including the selection of merchandise, prior to the death of the person.
Pre-need Programs
The belief that the created is united with the creator at death.
Doctrine of Atonement
An all-inclusive term used to encompass all funerals and/or memorial services.
Funeral Rite
Funeral rites with the body NOT present.
Memorial Service
A household or family unit created by related nuclear families and/or friendships.
Modified Extended Family
The emotional attitude that all cultures are equal and pertinent.
Cultural Relativism
The science of social groups; the processes that tend to maintain or change these forms of organizations and the relations between groups and individuals.
Sociology
Behavioral patterns which are observable by others.
Overt Conduct
A funeral rite which may be construed as being identifiable with a preliterate society.
Primitive Funeral Rite
Rites with the body present.
Funeral
A funeral rite which deviates from the normal or prescribed.
Non-traditional Funeral Rite
Like abstract patterns of and for living and dying, which are identifiable in all cultures.
Cultural Universal
A division, or smaller identifiable unit of a culture, connected to that culture by common traits, having unique traits to itself.
Subculture
Existential statements about the physical and social world.
Beliefs
The creation of a system which governs through departments and subdivisions managed by sets of officials following an inflexible routine.
Bureaucratization
A household or family unit consisting of one man and one woman married to each other and their children, if any.
Nuclear Family
The offspring of a specific set of parents.
Issue
Any of the basic divisions or groups of mankind, distinguished by customs, characteristics, languages, rather than physical characteristics of race.
Ethnic
Categorization of people by money, prestige and power; a ranking of social status (position) in groups such as upper, middle and lower class.
Social Stratification
A household or family unit consisting of father and mother and all their children (except married daughters), their son’s wives and children (except married daughters).
Extended Family (Joint Family)
Social behavior as dictated by the tradition of the people.
Customs
Male and female have equal rights, duties, and governing power.
Egalitarian