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SOCIOLOGY (SPENCER BLAKE, SLCC) TEST #3 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
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SOCIOLOGY (SPENCER BLAKE, SLCC)TEST #3 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
Bilateral System - Answer-Family descent (both mother/ father) are equally as
important.
Endogamy - Answer-Marrying within one's own group (no outside castes/ groups)
Exogamy - Answer-Marrying outside of one's group (caste/ social status group)
Family of orientation - Answer-Family including moms, dads, sisters, brothers, etc.
Family of Procreation - Answer-Happens of marriage/ birth of a child (kinda happens
cause ya)
Incest Taboo - Answer-Rule that prohibits sex and marriage amongst designated
relatives.
Patriarchy - Answer-Dads have power in society (80-20 power divide)
Matriarchy - Answer-Moms have power in society (60-40 power divide)
Patrilineal System - Answer-Descent only counts on the fathers side (drop moms last
name)
Matrilineal System - Answer-Descent only counts on the mothers side (Drop dads last
name)
Monogamy - Answer-One male, one female
Group Marriage - Answer-All men are married to all women and vice versa
Plural Marriage - Answer-Polygamy, lots of marriages consisting of both polyandry and
polygyny
Polyandry - Answer-One woman, multiple husbands
Polygyny - Answer-One male, multiple wives
Cohabitation - Answer-Unmarried couples living together with a sexual relationship
occurring
Homogamy - Answer-The tendency of people to marry people with similar
characteristics.
, Blended Families - Answer-A family whose members were once part of other families
Middletown studies - Answer-Conducted by Robert/ Helyn Lynd were they spent 10
years in a small Indiana town and were able to find out everything about that town.
(Family arrangements, peoples life events, etc.)
Robert/ Helen Lynd - Answer-Conductors of middletown studies
Church - Answer-(Moral community of believers)
Has national headquarters, bureaucracies, highly layered levels of structure, and sedate
services
Sect - Answer-Religious group larger than cult, that still holds tension/ hostility
Cult - Answer-A New/different religion, with few followers, and in opposition to the
dominant culture
Ecclesia - Answer-Religious group so integrated into the dominant culture that you see
little difference where it starts/ ends.
Cultural Transmission - Answer-Moving a set of ideas/ values from one group to another
Ritual - Answer-Ceremonies or repetitive practices; Often intended to evoke an awe of
the sacred/ tell stories that links generation
Sacred - Answer-Durkheims term for things set apart/ forbidden that cause awe or deep
respect
Profane - Answer-Durkheims term for common elements of everyday life.
Secularization of Religion - Answer-The switching from religious based ideas to secular
discussions (science/ Big Bang theory example.)
Religious Experience - Answer-sudden awareness of the supernatural/ feeling of
coming in contact with god
Karl Marx - Answer-"Religion is the opium of the people"
Believed that religion pushes you to deal with injustices in current life to be rewarded in
the next.
Emile Durkheim - Answer-Religion develops community, AND SEPARATES SACRED
FROM PROFANE
Max Weber - Answer-Believed religion answers the unanswerable, sets norms of
society, reduces stress, and is like social glue connects community)
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