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Sociology

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The science that deals with the various social groups which we encounter in our world today, the internal organization and operation of those social groups, the ways to change and maintain these organizations, and the relationship between these social groups.

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Funeral service sociology

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Address ourselves specifically to the funeral and disposition of human remains of the various groups that a funeral director will serve.

Begins with arrangements, ends with disposition.

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Cultural Universals include:

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Government

Marriage

Funeral rites

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Funeral rites within a culture

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Traditional funeral rites

Humanistic funeral rites

Adaptive funeral rites

Immediate disposition

Primitive funeral rites

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Abraham Maslow’s hierarchy of importance

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  1. Physiological needs
  2. Safety needs
  3. Social needs
  4. Esteem needs
  5. Self fulfillment
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Physiological needs

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Oxygen
Food
Shelter
Water 
Sleep
Elimination 
Clothing
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Safety needs

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Security
Stability
Order
Physical safety
Shelter for body warmth and protection
Sensory or motor stimulation 
Stability and consistency in one's life
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Social needs/love

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Affection
Identification
Companionship
Love and belonging

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Emotional needs

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Love
Approval and self esteem
Importance
Recognition and respect

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Esteem needs

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Self esteem
Self recognition
Prestige
Success
Esteem of others
Recognition
Self sufficiency 
Needs to be wanted 
Need to be needed
Productivity
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Social needs

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Identification 
Belonging
Education or learning
Religion or spiritual
Recreation or play
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Self actualization

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Self fulfillment 
Achieving one's capabilities
Beauty
Harmony
Spiritual
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Responsibilities of the family

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Discipline- includes attitude towards death and dying.

Giving and receiving motivation

Establishment and fulfillment of mental expectations.

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Modernization is credited to what three processes?

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  1. Urbanization
  2. Industrialization
  3. Bureaucratization
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What determines a family’s funeral customs?

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Mores, folkways and customs

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Enculturation

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Socialization, the process by which each individual learns about the accepted social values and activities important to his/her culture

Dictates what people can and cannot do in regards to death and the funeral rite

These dictates become custom

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Kantor and Lehr 3 basic family types

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  1. Open family structures
  2. Closed family structures
  3. Random family structures
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Open family structures

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Democratic
Allow honest exchange
Sense of order
Flexibility
Adaptation through consensus
Individual rights are respected
Loyalty of self and family is expected

In grief: tolerant

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Closed family structures

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Rules and heirarchal power structure
Subordinate their needs to the good of the group
Rigid daily schedules
Seek stability through tradition

In grief: rigidity and loyalty may disallow feelings and block communication.

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Random family structures

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More likely to do their own thing
Few rules if any
Fosters exploration through intuition

In grief: inhibit the sharing of the reality of the death and the experience of loss.

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Healthy families

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Have a shares religious core

Abound in rituals and traditions

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Terminal Illness

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Depleting emotionally
Financial issues
Life support issues
Organ donation

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Sudden death

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Accidental or violent 
Family must deal with:
Shock
Disbelief
Abrupt changes in lifestyle
No time to prepare
Unfinished business
No time to say goodbye
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Violent death

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Trauma possible from body disfiguration

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Homicide
Time consuming court cases | Believe justice has not been served
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Major disaster
Insecurity | Feelings of vulnerability
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Deaths not grieved openly
Suicide Homicide Alcohol related deaths AIDS
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Minimized deaths
Miscarriage Stillbirth Infant death
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Crisis
An unstable state of affairs in which a decisive change is impeding
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Religion in America
Judeo-Christian Overall purpose is to allow for the acknowledgement of the doctrine of atonement. Other purpose is to permit the bereaved family to call into use their faith and belief concerning life and death
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Government in America
Democratic | Families are free to select the funeral rite of their choice
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Economics in America
American is a nation of free enterprise Funeral home not funded directly by the government, free to open own funeral home.
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Age in America
Youth oriented society Death denying Place the old in nursing homes
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Educational Level in America
High degree of educational status with excellent public education systems Many funeral directors are required by state to take continuing education program classes
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Mobility in America
Very mobile society with much evidence of neo-localism, relocation is acceptable.
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Use of the funeral home
Normal site for visitation, rosaries, fraternal services, embalming. Sometimes arrangements. Sometimes funeral service.
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Use of embalming
Became more greatly accepted after WWII. Purpose is primarily disinfection, secondarily preservation, third restoration. Enables a family to wait longer to assemble relatives for the funeral rite, which enables a more complete acceptance of death.
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Viewing the remains
Differs in different parts of the Country. gathering at the funeral home to physically view the remains
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Visitation at the funeral home
Either via set hours or a state room depending on area. May provide the only time for friends and family of the deceased to visit informally with the immediate family of the deceased during the funeral period.
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The funeral director
Must expand knowledge on type of family they are serving, customs, traditions and religion of the family, and the rules and regulations that the family operates under.
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Credit
Allows a family to select a more desirable service at the time of death or before death.
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Disposition of the remains
Interment is predominant, entombment, and cremation
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Pre need programs
Planning and purchase of merchandise before death occurs
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Itemization
A method of pricing that provides a separate charge for each item of service and merchandise.
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Factors that have contributed to the avoidance or denial of death
Secularization of American society Deritualization of grief Growth of impersonal technology around dying people Unrealistic attention and focus on death
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Three primary styles of denial
1. Ignore death 2. Efforts to lessen the harshness of death- choice words, beautification 3. A distorted preoccupation with death that, to some degree, mimics pornography in its danger of dehumanizing genuine feelings and emotions.
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3 primary categories of fear associated with death process
1. The process of dying is painful 2. The process of dying is undignified 3. The process of dying as a burden to others
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3 primary categories of fear associated with death (in general)
1. Fear of the process of dying 2. Fear of the loss of life 3. Fear of what happens after death
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Fear of the loss of life
Vulnerability Incompleteness or failure Separation of people, places, and things that are loved and treasured.
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Fear of what happens after death
The fate of the body Fear of judgement Fear of what happens after death
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The death anxiety scale
``` Measures: General death anxiety Thoughts and talk of death Subjective proximity of death Fear of pain and suffering Fear of the unknown ```
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The threat index
Interview format, used in 23% of studies, offers more interpretability than the DAS.
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The collett- Lester fear of death scale
36 items connected to 4 dimensions of death anxiety: 1. Death of self 2. Dying of self 3. Death of others 4. Dying of others 18% of studies
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The Hoelter multidimensional fear of death scale
4% of studies, features 8 individual subscales, each containing 6 items on which respondents indicate extent of their agreement.
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6 goals for death care professionals
1. Tactfully avoid euphemisms in speaking and writing (remove taboo). 2. Promote and demonstrate comfortable and intelligent interaction 3. Encourage death education for children 4. Perceive health care workers and other caregivers as professionals and human beings. 5. Stay educated on changes and trends. 6. Encourage, communicate, participate in meaningful research in the field of death studies, grief, and bereavement.
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4 points to be drawn from funeral rites
1. The funeral rite itself can be called a social function. 2. The funeral rite is a cultural universal. 3. To understand how a society buries it's dead, the funeral director must first examine and understand the social structure of the society. 4. Funeral rites reflect both modern and contemporary tendencies.
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Psychology
The study of human behavior, focuses on the individual behavioral patterns of living things. Begins at time of death and ends with the acceptance of death.

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