Final Exam 3

Question 1

polygamy

Answer 1

marriage of 3 or more

Question 2

secularization

Answer 2

decline in religiosity and the importance of the sacred

Question 3

cult

Answer 3

organization that is largely outside a society’s cultural traditions

Question 4

rural rebound

Answer 4

migration from urban to rural areas

Question 5

monogamy

Answer 5

two partners

Question 6

structual functional view of family

Answer 6

family has vital tasks,
socialization, regulation of sexual activity, social placement, material and emotional security.
society depends on families

Question 7

homogamy

Answer 7

marriage between people from similar sociological or educational backgrounds

Question 8

patrilocality

Answer 8

married couple lives with or near husband’s family

Question 9

family of affinity

Answer 9

people without legal or blood ties who feel they belong together and define themselves as a family

Question 10

sacred

Answer 10

people set apart certain things as extraordinary or sacred

Question 11

What would happen to U.S population without immigration?

Answer 11

the population would be on a steep decline

Question 12

civil religion

Answer 12

a phrase created by Bellah to describe how nationalism has become a belief system like religion

Question 13

crude death rate

Answer 13

of deaths in a given year for every 1000 people in a population

Question 14

church

Answer 14

organization that is integrated into larger society

Question 15

edge cities

Answer 15

offices, malls, hotels, and entertainment complexes

Question 16

demograph

Answer 16

study of human characteristic

Question 17

megalopis

Answer 17

vast urban area containing # of cities and surrounding suburbs

Question 18

faith

Answer 18

belief in things that you can’t prove or see

Question 19

gemeinschaft

Answer 19

people closely tied by kinship & tradition

Question 20

durkheim’s mechanical solidarity

Answer 20

the social integration of members of a society who have common values and beliefs

Question 21

structural functional view of religion

Answer 21

social cohesion, social control, provides meaning and purpose

Question 22

cohabilitation

Answer 22

sharing of a household by an unmarried couple

Question 23

religion

Answer 23

social institution involving beliefs and practices based on a conception of the sacred

Question 24

endogamy

Answer 24

marriage between people of the same social category

Question 25

why are birth rates high in may through october?

Answer 25

everyone is indoors during winter, it gets darker outside earlier, people do it

Question 26

when was the pill introduced

Answer 26

1960

Question 27

fecundity

Answer 27

maximum possible reproduction

Question 28

mortality

Answer 28

incidence of death in a country's population

Question 29

liberation theology

Answer 29

fusion of christian principles with political activism

Question 30

malthusion theory

Answer 30

warning that population increase would lead to social chaos

Question 31

polygyny

Answer 31

1 man and 2+ women

Question 32

when was interracial marriage legalized

Answer 32

1967, Loving V. Virginia

Question 33

where does the world population rise the most?

Answer 33

in poor nations

Question 34

patrilineal descent

Answer 34

kinship through men (last name)

Question 35

family

Answer 35

social institution found in all societies that unites people in cooperative groups to oversee bearing and raising of children

Question 36

polyandry

Answer 36

1 woman and 2+ men

Question 37

social conflict view of family

Answer 37

family perpetuates inequality, property and inheritance, patriarchy, racial and ethnic inequality family plays a role in social stratification

Question 38

sect

Answer 38

organization that stands apart from larger society

Question 39

durkheim's organic solidarity

Answer 39

social cohesion based upon the dependence individuals have on each other in more advanced societies

Question 40

gesellschaft

Answer 40

people come together only on the basis of individual self-interest

Question 41

Why are divorce rates on the rise?

Answer 41

rising individualism, subsiding romantic love, less female dependence, stressful marriages, social acceptibility

Question 42

blended family

Answer 42

kids and some combination of biological parents and step parents

Question 43

symbolic analysis of religion

Answer 43

socially constructed, people share distinction between sacred and profrane, humans confront uncertainty by turning to sacred symbols

Question 44

emigration

Answer 44

leave one country to settle in another

Question 45

matrilocality

Answer 45

married couple lives with or near wife's family

Question 46

religiosity

Answer 46

importance of religion in a person's life

Question 47

exogamy

Answer 47

marriage between people of different social categories

Question 48

immigration

Answer 48

to enter in a country and settle

Question 49

durkheim and religion

Answer 49

as human beings, we define most things as profane (not sacred)

Question 50

crude birth rate

Answer 50

of live births in a given year for every 1000 people in a population

Question 51

demographic transition theory

Answer 51

population patterns reflect a society's industrial advancements

Question 52

social conflict view of religion

Answer 52

religion serves ruling elites by legitimizing status quo and diverting people's attention from social inequities

Question 53

migration

Answer 53

movement of people into and out of a specified area

Question 54

urbanization

Answer 54

concentration of humanity into cities

Question 55

infant mortality rate

Answer 55

of deaths among infants under 1 per 1000 people in a population