WorksheetsFSE 122 - Sociology Midterm Review
Total questions: 46
Worksheet time: 28mins
A religion is defined as a culturally entrenched pattern of behavior consisting of which elements?
Sacred beliefs
Emotional feelings that accompany the beliefs
Overt conduct presumably implementing the beliefs and feelings
Traditional funeral rites
Which of the following are examples of the funeral rite as a cultural universal?
Customs for the care of human remains are present across all cultures throughout history
Each society has developed a system for the announcement of a death
Cremation rates have slowly but steadily increased in many cultures
All societies have determined a method of disposition for their dead
Which of the following are examples of modern common funeral customs in the United States?
Holding a funeral or memorial service at a funeral establishment
Viewing the deceased at the funeral home
Contacting a funeral director
Holding a wake in the deceased's home
What is/are the effects of industrialization?
Is the replacement of individual crafting of products by the manufacturing of goods using mass production techniques
Brought about a loss of craftsmanship
Caused people to rely on outside sources to meet their needs
Brought about complex division of labor
The extended (joint) family structure tends to be conservative, self-sufficient, bound to an agrarian locale, and patriarchal in governance.
Laws are rules of action prescribed by an authoritative entity.
What term is used to describe any type of funeral rite where the body of the deceased is not present?
Memorial service
Funeral service
Celebration of life
All of the above
An established or prescribed procedure for a religious or other type of rite is called a ___________ or a ___________.
Religion; ritual
Custom; ceremony
Ceremony; funeral rite
Ritual; ceremony
Which of the following refers to informal norms that don't create a strong social reaction when violated?
Mores
Rules
Customs
Folkways
Which type of funeral rite follows a prescribed ritual that may be dictated by religious beliefs or social customs?
Humanistic funeral rite
Non-traditional funeral rite
Traditional funeral rite
What is the ability to move from place to place readily called?
Mobility
Social mobility
Neo-localism
Innovation
In an egalitarian family system, who is involved in decision-making?
Possessed by the mother
Shared by spouses
Possessed by the father
Something children may also have input in
What are 'must not' behaviors that are socially prohibited called?
Sanctions
Taboos
Mores
Folkways
What is the process by which a cultural item spreads from group to group called?
Cultural diffusion
Innovation
Ethnocentrism
Cultural assimilation
Rules are specified as methods of ______
Law
Procedure
Custom
Rites
In which type of family governance does the mother or oldest adult female hold the power and right of decision-making?
Egalitarian
Patriarchal
Modified extended
Matriarchal
What is the term for enculturation via formal, deliberate instruction?
Resocialization
Direct learning
Agent of socialization
Indirect learning
What term describes informal learning by observation of the cultural environment?
Resocialization
Direct learning
Indirect learning
Innovation
On the basis of the typical size of the family unit, which family type would potentially experience the greatest impact from a death?
Extended (joint) family
Nuclear family
Blended family
Single parent family
What term describes a characteristic of present or recent times and not of ancient times?
Modern
Progressive
Adaptive
Contemporary
What term describes living or happening in the same time period, or is occurring in the present?
Modern
Progressive
Adaptive
Contemporary
The advancement of medicine, technology, and public health administration have increased longevity, which has resulted in:
People are dying younger
Additional financial resources to pay for funeral expenses
Limited financial resources to pay for funeral expenses
More embalming cases
What is an object or act representing a belief or idea to which socially created meaning is attached called?
Symbol
Ritual
Estate
Trinket
What type of family consists of two parents, their children from previous relationships, and their children together?
Nuclear
Modified extended
Blended
Egalitarian
At what stage does enculturation typically begin?
During grade school
Adolescence
During infancy
At birth
The impact of the FTC's Funeral Rule requiring funeral homes to provide an itemized general price list is an example of the influence of which factor within the funeral industry?
The consumption of bourbon
Urbanization
Bureaucratization
Industrialization
What is the movement of people away from the area where they were born referred to as?
Mobility
Social mobility
Neo-localism
Innovation
What term describes a social grouping in which members have roughly similar culturally valued attributes and economic resources?
Social stratification
Social mobility
Class
Status
Which of these is the most influential factor on upward social mobility?
Socioeconomic status
Education
Social stratification
Brand loyalty
Which factor(s) specifically increased the need for advertisement?
Urbanization and anonymity
The division of labor
Bureaucratization
Loss of craftsmanship
What do statistical data studying characteristics of human populations such as size, density, and composition refer to?
Static analysis
Demographics
Sociobiology
Socioeconomics
What is attributed to the gradual shift from undeveloped, traditional societies to developed, sophisticated societies?
Industrialization, urbanization, & anonymity
The shift from the extended (joint) family to the nuclear family unit
Bureaucratization, industrialization, & urbanization
Anonymity & globalization
What is the movement of people within the classes of their society known as?
Mobility
Social mobility
Neo-localism
Innovation
What is the systematic study of human social interaction and social groups called?
Sociobiology
Sociology
Anthropology
Psychology
What is the categorization of people based on prestige, money, and/or power called?
Stratum
Social mobility
Social stratification
What type of funeral rite is modified to meet the needs of those directly involved or has been altered to suit the trends of the times?
Adaptive
Humanistic
Contemporary
Innovative
What are the basic patterns of ideas and acts of a people that are considered essential to society's welfare and call for a strong reaction if violated?
Taboos
Values
Mores
Customs
Which term refers to group-held expectations for behavior based on group values and may vary contextually?
Norms
Traditions
Customs
Laws
When does socialization end?
Once custom becomes tradition
When you die
In early adulthood
What is the umbrella term used to describe both funeral and memorial services?
Funeral service
Traditional funeral rite
Funeral rite
Memorial
What is included in culture according to the content provided?
Language, knowledge, behavior
Material objects
Language, behavior, material objects
Knowledge, behavior, material objects
What collective ideas define what is desirable, good, and proper, or undesirable, bad, and improper?
Customs
Laws
Values
Rules
Considering a culture from the perspective of that culture demonstrates the emotional attitude of ___________; considering one's own group as superior to all others demonstrates the emotional attitude of ___________.
Egalitarianism; cultural relativism
Ethnocentrism; cultural relativism
Cultural relativism; ethnocentrism
Cultural universal; ethnocentrism
What process involves the internalization of social values?
Socialization
Culture
Enculturation
Norms
The ______ of institutional deaths has resulted in the _______ of visible death.
Decrease; increase
Increase; increase
Increase; decrease
Decrease; decrease
Why is the funeral rite considered a social function?
It is an event at which people can express their emotions
It is an event at which people gather to share a common purpose
It is a cultural universal
Some response to death is present in all cultures
