Vocab

Question 1

Thanatology

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The study of death, dying and grief.

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Taboo

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A social prohibition of certain actions, a behavior which dictates that one must abstain from certain acts.

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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 rites

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Anything to which socially created meaning is given.

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Symbol

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

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Subculture

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

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Sociology

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

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Rule

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Ceremonies centering around d transition in life from one status to another

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Rites of passage

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Urbanization

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The change from rural to urban areas

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Any event performed in a solemn and prescribed manner

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Rite

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A culturally entranced 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.

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Religion

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Arrangements between a funeral establishment and family which designates details on a funeral service, including merchandise, prior to the death of a person.

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Pre-need programs

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Behavioral patterns which are observable by others

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Overt conduct

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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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A family unit that is made up of a married man and woman and their children.

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Nuclear family

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The 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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The movement of families away from where they were born.

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New-localism

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Must behavior, rules of behavior which are considered vital to the welfare of the group and are accompanied by relatively severe sanctions.

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Mores

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A family unit credited by two or more nuclear families or friendships.

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Modified extended nuclear family

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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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The state or quality of being mobile, the ability to move from place to place readily, or move from class to class, either up or down.

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Mobility

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An organization, public or private, which endorses the practice of conducting funeral rites without the body of the deceased present (including cremated remains).

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Memorial society

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A funeral rite held without the body present. (Including cremated remains)

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Memorial service

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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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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.

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Law

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The offspring or children of a specific set of parents.

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Issue

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The change from individual crafting of products to the manufacturing of goods through mass production.

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Industrialization

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

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Indirect learning

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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.

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Immediate disposition

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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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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 rite performed with the body present

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Funeral

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Behavior which when violated carry only informal sanctions such as scolding or ridicule.

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Folkways

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A household unit consisting of one mother, one father, all of their unmarried children, their sons, their sons wives, and their children.

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Extended (joint) family

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The belief that ones own race, nation, group or culture is superior to all others.

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Ethnocentrism

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A group of people who are recognized as a distinct group on the basis of such characteristics as language, ancestry, or religion.

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Ethnic

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A process by which a person learns the social values of a society.

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Enculturation/ socialization

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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

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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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The acquiring 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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Pertaining on demography, the science of vital statistics, or of births, deaths, marriages, etc. of a population.

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Demographic

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

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Customs

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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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Common traits or patterns found in all cultures of mankind.

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Cultural universal

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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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The reduction of a dead human remains to its essential inorganic elements by use of fire.

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Cremation

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Living or happening in the same period.

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Contemporary

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Two or more people, unrelated by either blood or marriage who are sharing living quarters together.

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Co-habitants

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A grouping of people with similar sociology-economic status.

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Class

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

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Ceremony (rituals)

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A governing system characterized by specialization, hierarchy, formal rules, impersonality, and a specialized administrative staff.

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Bureaucratization

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A family unit consisting of one male and one female, their children together, and any children from previous marriages.

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Blended family

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Existential statements about physical and social worlds.

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Beliefs

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A situation in which a person or entity is unknown.

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Anonymity

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Dealing with agriculture, farm based, the locale of the extended (joint) family.

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Agrarian

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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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The destruction of the body

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Death