Details Title: Chapters 12-14 Description: annoying Total Flash Cards: 52 Created: 07/25/2007 16:52:57		New Users: To study from this flashcard set, or to create your own your own study flash cards, REGISTER HERE. Existing Users: CLICK HERE. Additional Sociology Flashcards
Cards in this set: Term Incest Taboo? Definition forbids intercource among related individuals Term Nuclear Family? Definition basic family form. married couple w/kids. Term Polygamous families? Definition nuclear fam's linked by multiple marriage bonds of one central spouse. (2 types) Term polyGYNOUS family? Definition central person-male, spouses are female. Term polyANDROUS family? Definition central-female, male spouses. Term Extended families? Definition other relations & generations in addition to nuclear family. gparents, siblings, in-laws. Term Patrilineal system? Definition generations are tied together through MALES of family. Term Matrilineal system? Definition generations tied together by FEMALE. Term Bilateral system? Definition descent passes through both male & female families. Term Patriarchal family? Definition most family affairs are dominated by men. Term Matriarchal family? Definition most family affairs are dominated by women. Term Marriage? Definition social & legitmized union of individuals of opposite sexes. Term Families of Origin? Definition the two families that produced the two spouses. Term Family of Procreation? Definition family created by the marriage of spouses. Term Endogamy? Definition rules that limit social categories inwhich one can choose a marriage partner. Term Exogamy? Definition require an individual to marry someone outside his or her culturally defined group. merien has to marry jimmy. Term Monogamous? Definition only allowed one spouse at a time. Term Multiple marriages? Definition individual may have more than one spouse. Term Marital Residence rules? Definition govern where a couple settles down. Term Patrilocal residence? Definition calls for a new couple to settle down near or within the husbands fathers household. Term Matrilocal Residence? Definition calls for the new couple to settle down near or within the wifes mothers household. Term Bilocal residence? Definition new couples choose whether to live near husbands or wifes family of origin. Term Neolocal residence? Definition couple may choose to live virtually anywhere. this is how it is in the US. Term Homogamy? Definition tendency of like to marry like. Term Companionate marriage? Definition marriage based on romantic love. Term Cohabitation? Definition unmarried couples living together "living in sin" Term Religion? Definition system of beliefs and values shared by a group. defines the sacred, helps explain life, and offers salvation for problems of human existence. Term Profane? Definition consists of all empirically observable things, things that are knowable throuhg common knowledge, and everyday experiences. Term Sacred? Definition things that are awe inspiring and knowable only through extraordinary experiences. Term Rituals? Definition pattern of behavior or practices that are related to the sacred. Term Prayer? Definition means for individual to address or communicate with supernatural beigns or forces. Term Magic? Definition active attempt to coerce spirits or to control supernatural forces. differs from religious beliefs in that god or gods are not worshipped. Term Supernaturalism? Definition existence of supernatural forms, can and often do, influence human events. Term Mana? Definition diffuse, force that acts through anything that lives or moves. not harmful. Term Religious taboo? Definition sacred prohibition against touching, mentioning, or looking at certain objects, acts or people. Term Animism? Definition belief in inanimate, ghosts of ancestors that take an interest in, and actively work to influence, human affairs. -beings with feelings, motives, and wills of their own. Term Theism? Definition belief in devine beings-gods and godesses-who shape human affairs. Term Polytheism? Definition belief in a number of gods. Term Monotheism? Definition belief in one god. Term Abstract ideals? Definition focus on the achievment of personal awareness of correct ways of thinking and behaving, rather than manipulating spirits or worshipping gods. Term Totem? Definition object, plant or animal, becomes sacred symbol to and of group/clan. not only revere the totem, but identify with it. Term Revitalization movements? Definition powerful religious movements that stress a return to tradtional religious values of past. Term Alienation? Definition process by which people lose control over and social institutions they themselves invented. Term Universal church? Definition all members of a society within one united moral community. Term Ecclesia? Definition church that chares teh same ethical system as secular society and has come to represent and promote the interest of the society at large. Term Denomination? Definition tends to limit its membership to a particular class, ethnic group, religious group, or atleast have its leadership postions dominated as so. Term Sect? Definition small group that adheres stictly to religious doctrine and often includes unconventional beliefs or forms of worship. Term millenarian movements? Definition typically prophesy the end of the world, destruction of evil ppl and their works, and saving of the just. Term Secularized? Definition less influenced by religion. Term Ecumenism? Definition trend among many religious communities to draw together and project a sense of unity and common direction. Term Cultural transmission? Definition major portions of societys knowledge are passed from one generation to the next. Term DE JURE segregation? Definition laws prohibiting one racial group form attending school with another.