week 2

Question 1

If the funeral directors are to give counsel to the survivors in a family unit they must first exam the structure of the unit. Determine role of the deceased in the unit and the impact of death of the deceased on the unit.

Answer 1

The family

Question 2

1. obligation to care for other members
2. teaching and maintaining discipline
3. give direction
4. motivate

Answer 2

characteristics/responsibilities of the family

Question 3

1. Patriarchal
2. Matriarchal
3. Egalitarian

Answer 3

types of family government

Question 4

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

Answer 4

patriarchal

Question 5

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

Answer 5

matriarchal

Question 6

male and female share equal rights, duties, and governing power.

Answer 6

egalitarian

Question 7

1. extended (joint) family
2. Nuclear family
3. Modified extended family
4. Single parent family
5. Blended family

Answer 7

Types of family structure

Question 8

definition by membership within household includes father and mother, all of their children (except married daughters), their son’s wives and children (except married daughters.

Answer 8

Extended joint family

Question 9

Characteristics:

1. Patriarchal
2. agriculturally- based
3. economics - self sufficient unit
4. religious function; religion taught at home
5. women’s subservient position
6. restricted mobility

Answer 9

common characteristics of extended joint family

Question 10

death of a family member does not threaten unit to any great extent; since all members of the unit contribute equally and are able to fulfill the duties of a member who has died

Answer 10

impact of death on a member of extended joint family

Question 11

definition by membership included within household; one man, one woman, and children if any

Answer 11

nuclear family

Question 12

characteristics:

1. may be patriarchal, matriarchal or egalitarian
2. power and prestige of membership not uniformly determinable
3. economics; structured around total income of the unit
4. religion function; religious training institutional based
5. mobility highly mobile

Answer 12

common characteristics of nuclear family

Question 13

death of the breadwinner or either spouse where the economics are such that both contribute may cause great economic hardships on the remaining spouse to rear children alone. OR forces spouse to reenter society as a widow or widower

Answer 13

Impact of death for nuclear family

Question 14

Cluster of two or more nuclear families united by social bonds of security, protection and help.

Answer 14

modified extended family

Question 15

These families are linked by:

related nuclear families, or friendships

Answer 15

modified extended families linked together

Question 16

membership consists of one adult, either male or female and his/her children.

Answer 16

single parent family

Question 17

membership consists of one male and one female and their children from previous marriages and may include children from their present marriage

Answer 17

blended family

Question 18

Movement away from the joint family structure brought about by

Answer 18

1.industrialization (loss of craftsmanship; using outside sources to meet their needs.)
2. urbanization (difficult for the FD to know each family, lose of individual identity; to give separate and distinct identity to each families needs.
3 bureaucratization ; burial of the dead is no longer a simple task; complicated by requirements of a bureaucratic society.

Question 19

How modern society affects the family

Answer 19

1. changing attitudes towards marriage
2. extended life expectancy; has reduced the families exposure to death
   - decline in “visible death” the family experiences little, day to day confrontation with death
   - placing of older members of the family in “old age” homes, retirement villages and gives rise to isolation of the old among the old. Death becomes more abstract.