Sociology for Funeral Service Glossary Flashcards by Brittney Russell

A rite adjusted to the needs of the family or the trends of the time

Adaptive funeral rite

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Dealing with agriculture

Agrarian

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Being unknown

Anonymity

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Existential statements about the physical and social world

Beliefs

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One male and one female and children from their previous marriages as well as children from the present marriage

Blended family

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A form of organization characterized by specialization, hierarchy, formal rules, impersonality, and a specialized administrative staff

Bureacratization

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Any action performed during a rite which may or may not have symbolic meaning to the participants or observer of the action

Ceremony

* Ritual

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A grouping of people with similar socio-economic status in an industrialized society

Class

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Living or happening in the same period

Contemporary

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The combustion of a dead human body to its essential inorganic elements by rapid oxidation

Cremation

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The emotional attitude that recognizes other cultures as equivalent and pertinent

Cultural relativism

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Common traits or patterns found in all cultures of mankind

Cultural universal

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A set of knowledge, beliefs, attitudes and rules for behavior that are held commonly within a society

Culture

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A social behavior which is considered to be normal and is based on tradition

Custom

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Pertaining to the science of vital statistics, or of births, deaths, marriages, etc., of population

Demographic

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

Demography

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Immediate disposition of the body with no form of funeral rite at the time of disposition

Direct disposal

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The acquisition of the culture by a person through deliberate instruction by other members of that society

Direct learning

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The belief that the created is reunited with the creator at death

Doctrine of atonement

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Behaviors which are construed as somewhat less compulsive than mores of the same society

Folkways

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A form of family government which holds that both male and female have equal voice in governing

Egalitarian family

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The process by which a person is taught the mutually accepted and understood behaviors associated with the various roles encountered in a society

Enculturation

* Socialization

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A group of people who are recognized as a distinct group on the basis of cultural characteristics such as common ancestry or religion

Ethnic

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A pattern whereby people view their own culture as superior to all others

Ethnocentrism

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One man, one woman, married sons and their wives and issue all living within a single household

* Extended family | * Joint family

In the socially accepted monogamous marriage, one man (husband), one woman (wife) and any number of issue (children

Family unit

Relatively informal norms that carry only informal sanctions such as mild joking or ridicule, when they are violated

Folkways

A rite performed with the body present

Funeral

A process involving all activities associated with final disposition

Funeralization

A funeral service practitioner who arranges the funeral service with the family

* Funeral counselor | * Funeral service counselor

A funeral service practitioner who conducts that funeral which has been arranged prior to the funeral service

Funeral director

Any rite of the funeralization of a human being

Funeral rite

Any licensed person who is involved in any and/or all of the various stages of the funeralization practice

* Funeral service practitioner * Undertaker * Mortician * Funeral director / embalmer

A philosophy which contends that one must seek life's meaning or fulfillment in the future rather than in the past or present

Futuristics

A philosophy of care where a home-like atmosphere is provided for the terminally ill allowing for the family to be close at the time of death

Hospice

A funeral rite that is devoid of religious connotation

Humanistic funeral service

A funeral rite that is devoid of religious connotation

Humanistic funeral service

Any disposition of a human remains which is completely devoid of any form of funeral rite at the time of disposition

Immediate disposition

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

Indirect learning

The change from independent multi-talented, self-sufficient family units to employment of family members in jobs outside the unit, making them dependent on outside resources

Industrialization

The offspring or children of a specific set of parents

Issue

Behavior expectations sanctioned by rewards and punishments and enforced by people appointed or elected for that purpose

Law

A program which enables families to exchange a purchased lot or grave in one cemetery with a family who has a purchased lot or grave in another cemetery

Lot exchange programs

An agreement between two families and the cooperating cemeteries involved

Lot exchange programs

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

Matriarchal family

The process of the emergence of the personal characteristics and behavioral phenomena through endogenous growth processes

Maturation

A rite with the body not present

Memorial services

An organization, public or private which endorses the practice of conducting funeral rites without the body of the deceased being present

Memorial society

The state or quality of being mobile

Mobility

The ability to move from place to place readily, or to move from class to class, either up or down

Mobility

Of, or characteristic of the present or recent times

Modern

Not ancient, often used to designate certain contemporary tendencies

Modern

A cluster of two or more nuclear families united by social or familial bonds for security, protection and help

Modified extended nuclear family

Rules of behavior which are considered vital to the welfare of the group and accompanied by relatively severe sanctions

Accepted abbreviation for the National Funeral Directors Association

NFDA

The movement of families from the place where they were born

Neolocalism

Those funeral rites which deviate from the normal or prescribed circumstances of established customs

Non-traditional funeral rite

A family that is restricted to parents and their unmarried children

Nuclear family

Behavioral patterns which are observable by others

Overt conduct

One who participates in an event simply by listening and observing rather than by overt actions

Passive participant

A form of family government where the father, or male, possesses the power and right of decision making

Patriarchal family

Any society which exists in a stage of development prior to the invention of the written word in their culture

Pre-literate society

Agreements between client and funeral service practitioners which designate details of a funeral service prior to the death of the person to which the agreement pertains

Pre-need programs

Rites of funeralization usually associated with pre-literate societies

Primitive funeral rite

A culturally entrenched pattern of behavior made of sacred beliefs, emotional feelings accompanying the beliefs, and overt conduct presumably implementing the beliefs and feelings

Religion

Any event performed in a solemn and prescribed manner

Rite

Ceremonies centering around transition in life from one status to another

Rites of passage

Examples: Baptism, marriage, and the funeral

Rites of passage

A specific method or procedure used to comply with a folkway, mores and / or law

Rule

A family unit made up of one adult, either male or female, and their children

Single parent family

An event which allows those who have something in common with each other to deal with one another in regard to that which they share in common

Social function

The upward or downward movement of a person or family within the social classes of their society

Social mobility

The categorization of people according to their attainment or lack of attainment of finances or social status

Social stratification

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

Society

The study of social groups, their modes of organization, the processes which tend to maintain or change these forms, and the relationships between the groups

Sociology

A division of a culture, connected to a larger culture by common traits, while having unique traits of its own

Subcultures

Anything to which socially created meaning is given

Symbol

A social prohibition of certain actions

Taboo

A behavior which dictates that one must abstain from certain acts

Taboo

The study of death

Thanatology

Derived from the name Thanatos, Greek God of Death

Thanatology

Those funeral rites that follow a prescribed ritual which may be dictated either by religious beliefs or social customs

Traditional funeral rite

The change from rural to urban areas

Urbanization