Funeral Service Sociology Flashcards
Urbanization
The change from rural to urban in character
Traditional funeral rite
A funeral right that follows a prescribed ritual or ceremony that may be dictated either by religious belief or social customs
Taboos
A social prohibition of certain actions
Symbol
An object or that represents a belief or idea
Subculture
A division, or smaller identifiable, unit of culture, having unique traits to itself
Sociology
The study of social groups; the processes that tend to maintain or change these forms of organizations and the relations between groups in individuals
Society
A group of persons forming a single community with some interests in common
Social stratification
Categorization of people, buy money, prestige, empower; and ranking of social status/position in groups, such as upper, middle or lower class
Social mobility
Movement of a person or family within the social classes of their society
Social function
An event that allows individuals together as a community for sharing a common purpose
Single parent family
A family unit, consisting of one adult and his or her children
Rules
Specify methods of procedure
Ritual
Any single action or series of actions performed during a rite, which contains symbolic meaning to the participants and observers of the rite
Rite
Any event performed in a prescribed manner
Religion
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
Patriarchal
A father rules the family; power is passed to the oldest male child
Nuclear family
A household or family unit, consisting of one man and one woman married to each other, and their children, if any
Norms
A group held belief about how members should behave in a given context
Nontraditional funeral rite
A funeral rite that deviates from the normal or prescribed circumstances of established custom
Neo-localism
The movement of families from the area in which they were born
Mores
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
Modified extended family
A household or family unit created by related nuclear families and/or friendships
Modern
Characteristic of the present or recent times
Mobility
The state or quality of being mobile; the ability to move from place to place readily
Memorial service
Funeral rites with the body not present
Matriarchal
A family government, where the mother, or the oldest adult female possesses power, and the right of decision making
Laws
Rules of action prescribed by an authority, able to enforce its will
Industrialization
Individual crafting of products is replaced by manufacturer of goods utilizing mass production techniques
Indirect learning
A process by which a person learns the norms of his, or her culture by observation of others, in his or her society
Immediate disposition
Disposition of human remains, without funeral, right before or at the time of disposition
Humanistic funeral rite
A funeral rite that is the void of any religious connotation
Funeralization
The process involving all activities associated with the funeral rite, or the process of planning and executing a service
Funeral service sociology
The science of social groups and its effects on funeral practices and disposition
Funeral service
Rites with the body present
Folkways
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
Extended/joint family
A household or family unit consisting of a father and mother, all their children
Ethnocentrism
Emotional attitude that one’s own race, nation, group, or so culture is superior to all others
Ethnic
Any of the basic divisions or groups of humankind, distinguished by customers, characteristics and languages, rather than physical characteristics of race
Enculturation/socialization
The method by which the social values are internalized/learned
Egalitarian
Male and female, have equal rights, duties, and governing power
Direct learning
The acquiring of the culture by a person through delivery instruction by other members of that society
Demographics
The science of vital statistics, or of births, deaths, marriages, etc. of populations
Customs
Social behavior as dictated by the tradition of the people
Culture
The rules, ideas and beliefs, shared by members of society, of and for a living and dying, which are learn directly and indirectly
Cultural universal
Common traits for patterns found in all cultures
Cultural relativism
The emotional attitude at all cultures are equal and pertinent
Cultural assimilation
The process by which a person or groups, language, and or culture come to resemble those of another group
Contemporary
Leaving or happening in the same period
Cohabitants
To unrelated adults, sharing the same living quarters
Class
A social group possess roughly equivalent, culturally valued attributes
Civil union
Illegal relationship between two people of the same sex
Ceremony
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
Bureaucratization
The creation of a system which governs through departments and subdivisions, managed by sets of officials following an inflexible routine
Blended family
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
Anonymity
A situation in which a person or entity is unknown
Agrarian
Dealing with agriculture, farm based. The locale of the extended/joint family system.
Adaptive funeral rite
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
