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Sociology Qtr 1
Final
Question | Answer |
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The study of society and groups | Sociology |
Group of people forming a single community who have interests in common | Society |
Patterns including rules, ideas, and beliefs shared by members of society which are learned directly or indirectly | Culture |
Division of a culture that has a common trait | Subculture |
If they happen in the same time period; current, modern | Contemporary |
Happening right now | Modern |
Learning the patterns of society, internalizing social values directly or indirectly | Enculturation |
Patterns of living or dying common in all cultures | Cultural Universal |
Culturally entrenched pattern of behavior made up of sacred beliefs, emotional feelings of those beliefs, overt-conduct | Religion |
A view that one's own group, race, nation, or culture is superior to all others | Ethnocentrism |
All cultures have value and should be considered | Cultural Relativism |
Patterns of ideas or acts with great moral significance | Mores |
Mores enforced and punished by legislation | Laws |
Mores enforced by a group that are not laws | Rules |
Behavior determined by tradition of the people | Customs |
Less compulsive behavior for routine or causal interaction | Folkways |
Mores telling us what not to do | Taboo |
Science of vital statistics | Demographics |
Analyzing numbers to make meanings and trends | Statistics |
Most common value | Mode |
Arithmetic Average | Mean |
Result with the same number of occurrences on either side | Median |
Estimated number of years remaining in a person's life at a certain time | Life Expectancy |
Proportion of people who have died in a time period compared to the number of people in a population | Death Rate/Mortality Rate |
Number of live birth infants dying in their first year | Infant Mortality Rate |
A field filled out on the death certificate | Cause of Death |
Name the functions of a family | Care for children and elderly, encouragement, economic support, life functions, faith/religion, etc... |
Mother and Father | Nuclear Family |
Mother, Father, Grandparents, sometimes others | Extended Family |
Nuclear family in the house, but nearby relatives act as extended family | Modified Extended Family |
Just Mother or Father | Single Parent Family |
Re-Married Mother and Father | Blended Family |
Father rules the family | Patriarchal |
Mother rules the family | Matriarchal |
Mother and Father have equal part in the decision making | Egalitarian |
Patriarchal family, usually rural, where sons bring their wives to live on the family homestead | Joint Family |
Adults of opposite gender living together without marriage | Cohabiting |
Move from hand crafted products to factory made products | Industrialization |
Moving into cities | Urbanization |
The creation of a system that governs through departments and subdivisions managed by sets of officials following inflexible routines | Bureaucratization |
Moving away from parents | Neo-localization |
Moving away to different geographic areas | Geographic Mobility |
Is it true the divorce rate has increased through the 1900's? | Yes |
Is it true hospice care has increased and improved through the 1900's? | Yes |
An increase in interest in taking care of the environment | Green Movement |
Grouping people by similar characteristics that we value | Class |
Categorizing people into social classes | Social Stratification |
Ability to move between social classes | Class Mobility |
Event performed in a solemn and prescribed manner | Rite |
Includes funerals and memorial services; all inclusive term | Funeral Rite |
Action dealing with death which expresses beliefs and may use symbols to show the attitudes of the participants | Ritual/Ceremony |
A rite that follows a ritual or ceremony and comes from religion or social custom | Traditional Funeral Rite |
A service with no body present | Memorial Service |
No religious connotations, no mention of God | Humanistic Funeral Rites |
Adapted to desires of family, changed to suit modern trends | Adaptive Funeral Rites |
Funeral rite identified with a pre-literate society | Primitive Funeral Rite |