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Sociology for Funeral Service Glossary Flashcards

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

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Adaptive funeral rite

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Dealing with agriculture

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Agrarian

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Being unknown

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Anonymity

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Existential statements about the physical and social world

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Beliefs

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

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Blended family

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

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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

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  • Ceremony

* Ritual

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

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Class

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Living or happening in the same period

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Contemporary

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

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Cremation

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The emotional attitude that recognizes other cultures as equivalent and pertinent

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Cultural relativism

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Common traits or patterns found in all cultures of mankind

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Cultural universal

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

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Culture

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

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Custom

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

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Demographic

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

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Demography

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

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Direct disposal

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

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Direct learning

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

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Doctrine of atonement

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

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Folkways

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

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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

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  • 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

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Ethnic

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

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Ethnocentrism

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

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  • Extended family

* Joint family

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

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Family unit

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

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Folkways

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A rite performed with the body present

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Funeral

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A process involving all activities associated with final disposition

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Funeralization

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

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  • Funeral counselor

* Funeral service counselor

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

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Funeral director

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Any rite of the funeralization of a human being

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Funeral rite

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

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  • Funeral service practitioner
  • Undertaker
  • Mortician
  • Funeral director / embalmer
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A philosophy which contends that one must seek life’s meaning or fulfillment in the future rather than in the past or present

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Futuristics

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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

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Hospice

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A funeral rite that is devoid of religious connotation

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Humanistic funeral service

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A funeral rite that is devoid of religious connotation

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Humanistic funeral service

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

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Immediate disposition

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

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Indirect learning

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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

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Industrialization

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The offspring or children of a specific set of parents

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Issue

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

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Law

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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

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Lot exchange programs

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An agreement between two families and the cooperating cemeteries involved

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Lot exchange programs

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

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Matriarchal family

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

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Maturation

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A rite with the body not present

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Memorial services

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

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Memorial society

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The state or quality of being mobile

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Mobility

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

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Mobility

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Of, or characteristic of the present or recent times

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Modern

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Not ancient, often used to designate certain contemporary tendencies

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Modern

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

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Modified extended nuclear family

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

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Mores

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Accepted abbreviation for the National Funeral Directors Association

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NFDA

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The movement of families from the place where they were born

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Neolocalism

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

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Non-traditional funeral rite

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A family that is restricted to parents and their unmarried children

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Nuclear family

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Behavioral patterns which are observable by others

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Overt conduct

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

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Passive participant

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

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Patriarchal family

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

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Pre-literate society

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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

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Pre-need programs

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Rites of funeralization usually associated with pre-literate societies

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Primitive funeral rite

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

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Religion

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Any event performed in a solemn and prescribed manner

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Rite

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Ceremonies centering around transition in life from one status to another

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Rites of passage

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Examples: Baptism, marriage, and the funeral

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Rites of passage

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

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Rule

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

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Single parent family

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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

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Social function

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

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Social mobility

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

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Social stratification

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

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Society

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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

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Sociology

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

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Subcultures

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Anything to which socially created meaning is given

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Symbol

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A social prohibition of certain actions

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Taboo

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A behavior which dictates that one must abstain from certain acts

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Taboo

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The study of death

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Thanatology

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Derived from the name Thanatos, Greek God of Death

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Thanatology

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

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Traditional funeral rite

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The change from rural to urban areas

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Urbanization

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