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Thanatology: Sociology of Funeral Service Flashcards

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

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Adaptive Funeral Rite

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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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Blended Family

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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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Bureaucratizaion

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

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Ceremony (Ritual)

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A social grouping in which members possess roughly equivalent culturally valued attributes

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Class

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Two unrelated adults of the opposite sex sharing the same living quarters

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Cohabitants

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Living or happening in the same period

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Contemporary

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The emotional attitude that all cultures are equal and pertinent

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Cultural Relitivism

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Like abstract patterns of and for living and dying, which are identifiable in all cultures

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Cultural Universal

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Consists of abstract patters (the rules, ideas, beliefs shared by members of society) of and for the living and dying, which are learned directly or indirectly

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Culture

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Social behavior as dictated by the tradition of the people

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Customs

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Pertaining to demography; the science of vital statistics, or of birth, deaths, marriages, etch. of populations

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Demographic

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

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Egalitarian

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The method by which the social values are internalized (learned)

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Enculturation (Socialization)

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Any of the basic divisions or groups of mankind, distinguished by customs, characteristics, languages, rather than physical characteristics of race

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Ethnic

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

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Ethnocentrism

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A household or family unit consisting of father and mother, all their children (except married daughters), their son’s wives and children (except married daughters)

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Extended (Joint) Family

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The family into which one is born

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Family of Orientation

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The family established by one’s marriage and the production of children

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Family of Procreation

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

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Folkways

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Rites with the body present

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Funeral

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An all-inclusive term used to encompass all funerals and/or memorial services

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Funeral Rite

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A process involving all activities associated with final disposition

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Funeralization

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A funeral rite that is in essence devoid of religious connotation

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Humanistic Funeral Rite

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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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Individual crafting of products is replaced by manufacture of good utilizing mass production techniques

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Industrialization

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A must-behavior not necessarily a basic or important pattern of a people, but one which is enforced by those governing; a rule of action prescribed by an authority able to enforce its will

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Law

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The mother rules the family; a woman holding a position analogous to that of a patriarch

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Matriarchal

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Funeral rites with the body not present

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Memorial Service

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The state or quality of being mobile; 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; not ancient, often used to designate certain contemporary tendencies

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Modern

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

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Modified Extended Family

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Must-Behavior; the basic and 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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Mores

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The tendency of off-spring to move away from the area in which they were born

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Neo-localism

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

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Non-Traditional Funeral Rite

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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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Nuclear Family

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

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Patricarchal

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A culture developed before the invention of writing, and hence, leaving no written record

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Primitive Funeral Rite

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A culturally entrenched pattern of behavior made up 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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An instrumental action dealing with death, that is also expressional and that may or may not be charged with symbolic content expressing, among other things, the attitudes of the participants and possible onlookers who may be regarded as co-beneficiaries

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Ritual (Ceremony)

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Specified methods of procedure

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Rules

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A household or family unit consisting of one adult, either male or female, and his/her 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

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Social Function

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Categorization of people by money, prestige and power; a ranking of social status in groups such as upper, middle, and lower class

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Social Stratification

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The method by which the social values are internalized

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Socialization (Enculturation)

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

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Sociology

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A division, or smaller identifiable unit of culture, connected to that culture by common traits, having unique traits to itself

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Subculture

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Things to which socially created meaning is given

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Symbol

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Must-behavior which dictates the individual must abstain from certain acts dealing with death

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Taboos

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A funeral rite that follows a prescribed ritual or ceremony dictated either by religious belief or social custom

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Traditional Funeral Rite

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The change from rural to urban in character

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Urbanization

Principles II - Vocabulary (21 decks)

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