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Socialogy Glossary
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Adaptative Funeral Rite | a funeral rite that is adjusted to the needs and wants of those directly involved; one that has been altered to suit the trends of the times |
| Blended Family | membership consists of one male and one female and the children form their previous marriages and may include children from the present marriage |
| Bureaucratization | the creation of a system that governs through departments and subdivisions managed by set of officials following an inflexible routine |
| Ceremony/Ritual | an instrumental action dealing with death, which is also expressional that is, it is charged with symbolic content expressing, among other things, the attitudes of the participants and possible onlooker icipants) who may be regarded as cobeneficiaries. |
| Class | a social grouping which members possess roughly equivalent culturally valued attributes |
| Cohabitabts | two unrelated adults of the opposite sex sharing the same living quarters |
| Contemporary | living or happening in the same period |
| Cultural Relativism | the emotional attitude that all cultures are equal and pertinent |
| Cultural Universal | abstract patterns for living and dying which are identifiable in all cultures |
| Culture | consists of abstract patterns (the rules, ideas, beliefs shared by members of society) for living and dying; learned directly or indirectly |
| Customs | social behavior as dictated by the tradition of the people |
| Demographic | pertaining to demography; the science of vital statistics (births, deaths, marriage, ect.) of population |
| Egalitarian | male and female have equal rights, duties, and governing power |
| Enculturation(socialization) | the method by which social values are internalized (learned) |
| Ethnic | any of the basic divisions or groups of mankind, distinguished by customs, characteristics, language, rather than physical characteristics of race |
| Ethnocentrism | the emotional attitude that one’s own race, nation, group or culture is superior to all others |
| Extended (Joint) Family | membership within household includes father and mother, all their children (except married daughters) their son’s wives and children (except married daughters) |
| Family of Origin | the family into which one is born |
| Family of Procreation | the family established by one’s marriage and the production of children |
| Folkways | behaviors that are constructed as somewhat less compulsive than mores of the same society, and do not call for a strong reaction from the society if violated |
| Funeral | rites with the body present |
| Funeral Rites | an all inclusive term used to encompass all funerals and/or memorial services |
| Funeralization | a process involving all activities associated with final disposition |
| Humanistic Funeral Rite | a funeral rite that is in essence devoid of religious connotation |
| Immediate Disposition | any disposition of a human remains which is completely devoid of any form of funeral rite at the time of disposition |
| Industrialization | individidual crafting of products is replaced by manufacture of good utilizing mass production techniques |
| Law | a must behavior, not necessarily a basic or important pattern of a people (related to death) but one which is enforced by those governing; a rule of action prescribed by an authority able to enforce its will. |
| Matriarchal | the mother rules the family; a woman holding a position analogous to that of a patriarch |
| Memorial Service | funeral rites with the body not present |
| Mobility | the state or quality of being mobile; the ability to move from place to place readily or to move from class to class, either up or down |
| Modern | of or characteristic of the present or recent times; not ancient, often used to designate certain contemporary tendencies |
| Modified extended family | a household or family unit created by related nuclear families and/or friendships |
| Mores | must behavior; the basic and important patterns of ideas and acts of a people as related to treatment of the dead which call for a strong reaction from the society if violated. |
| Neo-localism | the tendency of offspring to move away from the area in which they were born |
| Non-traditional Funeral Rite | a funeral rite that deviates from the normal or prescribed circumstances of established custom. |
| Nuclear Family | membership within household includes one man, one woman and their children, if any |
| Patriarchal | the father rules the family; power is passed to the oldest male child |
| Pre-literate Society | a culture developed before the invention of writing, and hence, leaving no written record |
| Primitive Funeral Rite | a funeral rite which may be constructed as being identifiable with a preliterate society |
| Religion | a culturally entrenched pattern of behavior made up of 1)scared beliefs, 2) emotional feelings accompanying the beliefs and 3) overt conduct presumably implementing the beliefs and feelings |
| Rite | any event performed in a solemn and prescribed manner |
| Rites of Passage | ceremonies centering around transition in life from one status to another ex. Baptism, marriage and the funeral |
| Ritual (ceremony) | an instrumental action dealing with death, which is also expressional- that is, it is charged with symbolic content expressing, among other things, the attitudes of the participants and possible onlookers (passive participants) who may be regarded as co-b |
| Rules | specified methods of procedure |
| Single Parent Family | membership consists of one adult, either male or female, and his/her children |
| Social/Society | a group of persons forming a single community with some interests in common |
| Social Function | an event which allows those who have something in common with each other to deal with one another in regard to the which they share |
| Social Stratification | categorization of people by money, prestige and power; a ranking of social status (position) in groups such as upper, middle and lower class |
| Socialization/Enculturation | the method by which social values are internalized (learned) |
| Society | a group of persons forming a single community with some interests in common |
| Sociology | the science of social groups; the processes that tend to maintain or change these forms of organizations and the relations between groups |
| Subculture | a division or smaller identifiable unit of a culture connected to that culture by common traits, having unique traits to itself. |
| Symbol | anything to which socially created meaning is given |
| Tabbo | must behavior that dictates the individual must abstain from certain acts |
| Traditional Funeral Rite | a funeral tire that follows a prescribed ritual or ceremony which may be dictated either by religious belief or social custom |
| Urbanization | the change from rural to urban in character |
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