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Worsham Sociology Q1

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