Question | Answer |
Sociology is | the study of group behavior & societies (any brake down of groups) |
Androcentricity is | a male prospective |
Values are | culturely defined standards people use to decide what is desirable, good & beautiful. |
Paterns of ideas and acts with great moral sugnifigence or "must" behaviors are | Mores (Morays) |
Taboos, Laws and Rules are examples of... | Mores (morays) |
Taboos are | mores describing what we must not do. |
Laws are | mores enforced & punished by legislature |
Rules are | mores enforced by a group |
Behaviors determinded by traditions of the people are | Customs |
Less compulsive behaviors for routine or casual interactions. AKA Grease that makes society work well | Folkway |
Demographics | Science of vital satistics of a particular population such as births, deaths and marriages |
Statistics | A way to use numbers to understand information. Always know the sources. |
What are the three averages to measure populations. | Mode, Median, Mean |
Mode | The most common value |
Median | When in decending order, the value in the middle. If there is an even number of values then average the 2 middle values. |
Mean | The mathmatical average of the values |
What is the different between the largest and smallest numbers? | Range |
Correlation | Two numbers that change together. |
Causation | One characteristic of a population that changes and causes another characteristic to change |
Life Expectancy | Estimated number of years remaining in a persons life at a particular time. |
half will pass before this, half will live past this | Life Expectancy |
Mortality Rate or Death Rate | Proportion number of people that have died in a time compared to the number of people total in the population. |
The number of live birth infants that died in the first year of life. | Infant Mortality Rate |
Cause of Death | A field on the death cirtificate using only certain words with primary, secondary and third explaination of death. |
No identifable relationship | Confounding |
People in similar groups | co-hort |
What is the Mode of: 30k, 22k, 22k, 34k, 42k, 165k, 35k | 22k: 22k, 22k, 30k, 34k, 35k, 42k, 165k |
What is the Median of: 30k, 22k, 22k, 34k, 42k, 165k, 35k | 34k: 22k, 22k, 30k, 34k, 35k, 42k, 165k |
What is the Mean of: 30k, 22k, 22k, 34k, 42k, 165k, 35k | 50k: 22k+22k+30k+34k+35k+42k+165k=350k/7=50k |
What is the Range of: 30k, 22k, 22k, 34k, 42k, 165k, 35k | 143k: 165k-22k=143k |
Industrialization | individual crafting replaced by manufacturing of mass produced goods |
Urbanization | moving form rural to cities |
Class | grouping people together based of balues of society (profession, $, family) |
Social stratification | determing what social class one belongs in |
Geographic mobility | moving from place to place |
Class mobility | moving to a different social class |
Neo-localization | tendancy of children to live in a different local then parents |
Bureaucratization | creating a system that governs thru departments managed by sets of offices following inflexible routines, such as the DMV |
Inter-generational | parents help their children raise to a different class |
Intra-generational | oneself moving to a higher social class |
Nuclear family | mother and father with siblings, traditionally in urban settings |
Extended family | mother, father, grandparents, and sometimes others with siblings and sometimes cousins, traditionally rural |
Modified Extended family | nuclear in the house but nearby relatives act as extended family |
Single parent family | Just mother or father and siblings |
Blended family | Re-married mother and/or father with siblings from 2 families, possibly children from this new marriage |
Partiarchal | Father rules the family. Typically power is passed to the oldest male child |
Matriarchal | Mother rules the family. |
Egalitarian | Mother and Father have equal part in the decision making, power and duties |
Joint Family | usually in rural setting, sons marry and bring wife to live by his parents, daughters move away to live near hubby's family and patriarchal. |
Cohabiting Family | not married but living together, normally with children |
society | group of people that live together |
culture | patterns shared by members of society. (rules, beliefs and other ideas |
subculture | subset of a culture with owe culture/rules/ideas/beliefs |
contemporary | 1-current 2-living at the same time |
enculturation | learning about cultural ideas and beliefs |
cultural universal | patrern of living and common in all cultures |
religion | pattern of behavior about scared beliefs and feelings about those beliefs & conduct |
ethnocentrism | my culture is right and I judge everyone by my standards |
cultural relativism | find value in other cultures and consider their values |
how is divorce and family structure changing | leveled off and slightly downward |
is hospice care increasing or decreasing | increasing |
green movement as far as the funeral service goes | bio-degradable |
what are the changes in disposition after death | less burial, more cremation |
what is a rite | event proformed in a sollem and prescribed manner |
memorial service, funeral service and like phrases are other names for | funeral rite |
funeral | service with the body present |
ritual or ceremony | action taken to deal with death that expresses beliefs. symbols are often used |
traditional funeral rite | rite that follow the ritual or ceremony |
funeral rites without the body present | memorial service |
a funeral rite with no religius connotation | humanistic funeral rite |
adaptive funeral rite | starts with a traditional service and changes to suit the family |
use of customs from a preliterate society | primitive funeral rite |