Vocab Flashcards
The reduction of a dead human remains to its essential inorganic elements by use of fire.
Cremation
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.
Mobility
A form of family government which holds that both male and female have equal voice in governing.
Egalitarian
Any disposition of a dead human body, either by means of burial or cremation, with no form of funeral rite at the time of disposition.
Immediate disposition
A family unit created by two or more nuclear families or friendships.
Modified extended family
The division of a culture, connected to a larger culture by common traits, while having unique traits of its own.
Subcultures
An organization, public or private, which endorses the practice of conducting funeral rites without the body of the deceased present.
Memorial society
A specific method or procedure used to comply with the Folkway, Mores and/or law
Rule
The acquiring of the culture by a person through deliberate instruction by other members of that society.
Direct learning
Behaviors which when violated carry only informal sanctions such as scolding or ridicule.
Folkways
A form of family government where the father, or male, possesses the power and right of decision-making.
Patriarchal family
A grouping of people with similar socio-economic status.
Class
A family unit that is made up of a married man and woman and their children.
Nuclear family
A family government where the mother or female possesses power and the right of decision-making.
Matriarchal family
The belief that one’s own race, nation, group or culture is superior to all others.
Ethnocentrism
Two or more people, unrelated by either blood or marriage who are sharing living quarters together.
Cohabitants
A household unit consisting of one mother, one father, all of their unmarried children, their sons, son’s wives, and their children.
Extended joint family
A governing system characterized by specialization, hierarchy, formal rules, impersonality, and a specialized administrative staff.
Bureaucratization
Existential statements about the physical and social world.
Beliefs
The change from rural to urban areas.
Urbanization
The offspring or children of a specific set of parents.
Issue
Dealing with agriculture, farm-based. The locale of the extended joint family system.
Agrarian
A must behavior of a people enforced by those elected to govern; a rule of action prescribed by an authority able to enforce its will.
Law
Must behavior; rules of behavior which are considered vital to the welfare of the group or companied by relatively severe sanctions.
Mores
Pertaining to demography; the science of vital statistics, or of births, deaths, marriages, etc. of population.
Demographic
Common traits or patterns found in all cultures of mankind.
Cultural universal
Arrangements between a funeral establishment and family which designates details of the funeral service, including the selection of merchandise, prior to the death of a person.
Pre-need programs
The study of death, derived from the name Thanatos, Greek god of death.
Thanatology
An action performed during a rite which may or may not have symbolic meaning to the participants or observers of the action.
Ceremony or Ritual
A set of knowledge, beliefs, attitudes, and rules for behavior that are held commonly within a society.
Culture
Living or happening in the same period.
Contemporary
Those funeral rites that follow a prescribed ritual which may be dictated either by religious beliefs or social customs.
Traditional funeral rite
The upward or downward movement of a person or family within the social classes of their society.
Social mobility
The belief that the created is reunited with the creator at death.
Doctrine of atonement
An all inclusive term used to encompass all funerals and/or memorial services.
Funeral rite
A rite adjusted to the needs of the family or the trends of the time.
Adaptive funeral rite
Behavioral patterns which are observable by others.
Overt conduct
The situation in which a person or entity is unknown.
Anonymity
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
A process by which a person learns the norms of his culture by observation of others in his or her society.
Indirect learning
The categorization of people according to their attainment or lack of attainment of finances or social status.
Social stratification
A family unit consisting of one male and one female, their children together, and any children they may have had from previous marriages.
Blended family
A process involving all activities associated with funeral disposition.
Funeralization
A group of people who are recognized as a distinct group on the basis of such characteristics as language, ancestry, or religion.
Ethnic
The movement of families away from where they were born.
Neo-localism
Any event performed in a solemn or prescribed manner.
Rite
The emotional attitude that recognizes other cultures as equivalent and pertinent.
Cultural relativism
A social behavior which is considered to be normal and is based on tradition.
Customs
The process by which a person learns the social values of a society.
Enculturation or Socialization
A culturally entrenched pattern of behavior made up of: 1. sacred beliefs, 2. emotional feelings accompanying the beliefs, and 3. overt conduct presumably implementing the beliefs and feelings
Religion
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
Those funeral rites which deviate from the norm or prescribe circumstances of established customs.
Non-traditional funeral rite
A social prohibition of certain actions; a behavior which dictates that one must abstain from certain act.
Taboo
Anything to which socially created meaning is given.
Symbol
Of, or characteristic of the present or recent times; not ancient, often used to designate certain contemporary tendencies.
Modern
The change from individual crafting of products to the manufacturing of goods through mass production.
Industrialization
A family unit made up of one adult, either male or female, and their children.
Single-parent family
Ceremonies centering around transition in life from one status to another (Examples: Baptism, marriage, and the funeral).
Rites of passage
A funeral rite that is in essence devoid of religious connotation.
Humanistic funeral rite
A right performed with the body present.
Funeral
The funeral rite held without the body present. This includes cremated remains.
Memorial service
Todd Van Beck stated the funeral does what 4 specific things?
- Provides acting-out ceremonies
- Provides the framework for group support
- Encourages the expression of feelings
- Provides values to live by
What was Bowlby’s Theory?
Humans have an instinctive need to form strong attachments to others.
Attachments come from a need for security and safety
What was Eric Lindemann’s Theory?
There is a Grief Syndrome: Somatic and bodily distress; the inability to function as one had prior to the death
There is Grief Work: Emancipation from bondage to the deceased; formation of new relationships
What are William Wordons 4 tasks of Mourning?
- To accept the reality of the loss
- To experience the pain of grief and to express emotions associated with it
- To adjust to the environment in which the deceased is missing
- To withdraw emotional energy and reinvest it in another relationship
What are the 5 levels of Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs? (Starting from the bottom up)
- Physiological
- Safety
- Love / Belonging
- Esteem
- Self Actualization
An emotion or group of emotions caused by loss.
Grief
The act or event of loss that results in the experience of grief.
Bereavement
An adjustment process that involve grief or sorrow over a period of time and helps in the reorganization of the life of an individual following the loss or death of someone loved.
Mourning
What are the Stages of Dying?
- Denial
- Anger
- Bargaining
- Depression
- Acceptance
A defense mechanism by which a person is unable or refuses to see things as they are because such facts are threatening to the self.
Denial (as a Stage of Dying)
Blame directed at another person
Anger (as a Stage of Dying)
Attempting to make deals with god to stop or changes the diagnosis by begging, wishing, praying not to die, or at leat to delay death.
Bargaining (as a Stage of Dying)
Overwhelming feelings of hopelessness, frustration, bitterness, self-pity, mourning the impending loss of hopes, dreams and plans for the future. The person feels a lack of control or numbness.
Depression (as a Stage of Dying)
Knowing the impending death is real, not liking the fact, but realizing you must go on.
Acceptance (as a Stage of Dying)
A process occurring with loss, aimed at loosening the attachment to the dead for reinvesting in the living.
Grief Work
A set of symptoms associated with loss.
Grief Syndrome
Helping people facilitate grief to a healthy completion of the tasks of grieving within a reasonable time frame.
Grief Counseling
Specialized tecniques which are used to help people with complicated grief reactions.
Grief Therapy
The reactions of the body to an event often experienced emotionally as a sudden, violent and upsetting disturbance.
Feelings
A state of tension typically characterized by rapid heartbeat and shortness of breath. An emotion characterized by a vague fear or premonition that something undesirable is going to happen.
Anxiety
