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Vocabulary- Thanatology: Sociology of Funeral Service Flashcards

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

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Class

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

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Taboos

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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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Living or happening in the same period.

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Contemporary

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Any event performed in a solemn and prescribed manner.

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Rite

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

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Enculturation (Socialization)

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The family into which one is born.

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Family of Orientation

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

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Social Stratification

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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 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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A division, or small identifiable unit of culture, connected to that culture by common traits, having quite traits to itself.

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Subculture

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Any disposition of 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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Male and female have equal rights, duties, and governing power.

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Egalitarian

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Pertaining to demography; the science of vital statistics, or of births, deaths, marriages, etc of populations.

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Demographic

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The change from rural to urban in character.

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Urbanization

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Specified methods of procedure.

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Rules

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

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Ceremony (Ritual)

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Things to which socially created meaning is given.

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Symbols

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Social behavior as dictated by the tradition of the people.

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Customs

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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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A household or family unit created by one make 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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Two unrelated adults of the opposite sex sharing the same living quarters.

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Cohabitants

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

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Culture

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

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Industrialization

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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 grounds and individuals.

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Sociology

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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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Funeral rites with the body not present.

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Memorial Service

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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 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.

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Religion

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

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Patriarchal

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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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Bureaucratization

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Ceremonies centering around transition in life from one status to another (ex Baptism, marriage and the funeral).

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Rites of Passage

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

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Pre-Literate Society

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The emotional attitude that all cultures are equal and pertinent.

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Cultural Relativism

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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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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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A must-behavior not necessarily a basic or important pattern of people (related to death) 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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A funeral rite that is adjusted to the needs and wants of those directly involved; one which has been altered to suit the trends of the time.

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Adaptive Funeral Rite

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

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Modified Extended Family

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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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A funeral rite which may be construed as being identifiable with a pre-literate society.

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Primitive Funeral Rite

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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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