Religion and Language Vocabulary Quiz

set of individuals of roughly the same age and interests

• peer group

• multilingual

• Animism

Social rituals that mark the transition between developmental

stages, especially between childhood and adulthood.

• rites of passage

• social inequality

• deity

The process by which people learn customs and values of their

culture.

• socialization

• minority

• dialect

A community of people who share a common culture

• prestige

• society

• status

a social structure in which classes are determined by heredity

• caste system

• social mobility

• peer group

social stratification based on both birth and individual achievement

• class system

• doctrine

• secular

a change in position within the social hierarchy

• social mobility

• lingua franca

• socialization

High standing; respect earned by accomplishments

• prestige

• ethnicity

• peer group

A social position that a person holds

• logograms

• status

• class system

A structured ranking of entire groups of people that leads to

unequal economic rewards and power in a society.

• secular

• stratification

• doctrine