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Funeral Service Sociology Flashcards

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Urbanization

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The change from rural to urban in character

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Traditional funeral rite

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A funeral right that follows a prescribed ritual or ceremony that may be dictated either by religious belief or social customs

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Taboos

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A social prohibition of certain actions

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Symbol

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An object or that represents a belief or idea

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Subculture

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A division, or smaller identifiable, unit of culture, having unique traits to itself

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Sociology

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The study of social groups; the processes that tend to maintain or change these forms of organizations and the relations between groups in individuals

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Society

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A group of persons forming a single community with some interests in common

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Social stratification

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Categorization of people, buy money, prestige, empower; and ranking of social status/position in groups, such as upper, middle or lower class

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Social mobility

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Movement of a person or family within the social classes of their society

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Social function

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An event that allows individuals together as a community for sharing a common purpose

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Single parent family

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A family unit, consisting of one adult and his or her children

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Rules

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Specify methods of procedure

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Ritual

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Any single action or series of actions performed during a rite, which contains symbolic meaning to the participants and observers of the rite

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Rite

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Any event performed in a prescribed manner

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Religion

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A culturally entrenched pattern of behavior made up of
1) sacred beliefs
2) emotional feelings accompanying the beliefs
3) overt conduct, presumably, implementing the beliefs and feelings

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Patriarchal

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A father rules the family; power is passed to the oldest male child

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Nuclear family

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A household or family unit, consisting of one man and one woman married to each other, and their children, if any

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Norms

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A group held belief about how members should behave in a given context

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Nontraditional funeral rite

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A funeral rite that deviates from the normal or prescribed circumstances of established custom

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Neo-localism

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The movement of families from the area in which they were born

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Mores

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Must behavior; the basic an important patterns of ideas, and acts of a People, as related to treatment of the dead, which calls for a strong reaction from the society, if violated

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Modified extended family

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A household or family unit created by related nuclear families and/or friendships

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Modern

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Characteristic of the present or recent times

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Mobility

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The state or quality of being mobile; the ability to move from place to place readily

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Memorial service

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Funeral rites with the body not present

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Matriarchal

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A family government, where the mother, or the oldest adult female possesses power, and the right of decision making

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Laws

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Rules of action prescribed by an authority, able to enforce its will

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Industrialization

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Individual crafting of products is replaced by manufacturer of goods utilizing mass production techniques

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Indirect learning

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A process by which a person learns the norms of his, or her culture by observation of others, in his or her society

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Immediate disposition

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Disposition of human remains, without funeral, right before or at the time of disposition

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Humanistic funeral rite

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A funeral rite that is the void of any religious connotation

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Funeralization

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The process involving all activities associated with the funeral rite, or the process of planning and executing a service

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Funeral service sociology

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The science of social groups and its effects on funeral practices and disposition

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Funeral service

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Rites with the body present

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Folkways

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Behaviors which are construed as somewhat less compulsive, then mores of the same society, and do not call for a strong reaction from the society if violated

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Extended/joint family

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A household or family unit consisting of a father and mother, all their children

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Ethnocentrism

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Emotional attitude that one’s own race, nation, group, or so culture is superior to all others

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Ethnic

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Any of the basic divisions or groups of humankind, distinguished by customers, characteristics and languages, rather than physical characteristics of race

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Enculturation/socialization

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The method by which the social values are internalized/learned

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Egalitarian

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Male and female, have equal rights, duties, and governing power

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Direct learning

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The acquiring of the culture by a person through delivery instruction by other members of that society

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Demographics

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The science of vital statistics, or of births, deaths, marriages, etc. of populations

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Customs

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Social behavior as dictated by the tradition of the people

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Culture

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The rules, ideas and beliefs, shared by members of society, of and for a living and dying, which are learn directly and indirectly

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Cultural universal

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Common traits for patterns found in all cultures

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Cultural relativism

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The emotional attitude at all cultures are equal and pertinent

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Cultural assimilation

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The process by which a person or groups, language, and or culture come to resemble those of another group

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Contemporary

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Leaving or happening in the same period

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Cohabitants

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To unrelated adults, sharing the same living quarters

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Class

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A social group possess roughly equivalent, culturally valued attributes

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Civil union

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Illegal relationship between two people of the same sex

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Ceremony

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Instrumental, action, dealing with death, that is also expressional, and that may or may not be charged with symbolic Contant expressing, among other things, the attitudes of the participants, and possible onlookers/passive participants, who may be regarded as co-beneficiaries

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Bureaucratization

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The creation of a system which governs through departments and subdivisions, managed by sets of officials following an inflexible routine

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Blended family

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A household or family unit created by one male, and one female, and the children from their previous marriages, and may include children from the present marriage

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Anonymity

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A situation in which a person or entity is unknown

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Agrarian

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Dealing with agriculture, farm based. The locale of the extended/joint family system.

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Adaptive funeral rite

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A funeral, right that is adjusted to the needs, and wants of those directly involved; and has been altered to suit the trends of the times

NBE/MO Funeral Service State Board Exams (24 decks)

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