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| Adaptive Funeral Rite | a funeral rite that is adjusted to the needs and wants of those directly involved; on that has been altered to suit the trends of the times. |
| Blended Family | membership consists of one male, one female, and the children of their previous marriages,may also include children from the present marriage |
| Bureaucratization | the creation of a system that governs through departments and subdivisions managed by sets of officials following an inflexible routine. |
| Ceremony (Ritual) | an instrumental action dealing with death, that is also expressional and that may or may not be charged with symbolic content expressing, amount other things, the attitudes of the participantsand possible onlookers (passive participants) who may be regarded as co-beneficiaries. |
| Class | a social grouping which members possess roughly equivalent culturally valued attributes. |
| Contemporary | living or happening in the same period. |
| Cultural Relativism | the emotional attitude that all cultures are equal and pertinent. |
| Cultural Universal | like abstract patterns of and for living and dying, which are identifiable in all cultures. |
| Culture | 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. |
| Customs | social behavior as dictated by the tradition of people. |
| Demographic | pertaining to demography; the science of vital statistics, or of births, deaths, marriages, etc. of populations. |
| Egalitarian | males and females have equal rights, duties, and governing power. |
| Enculturation (Socialization) | the method by which the social values are internalized. (learned). |
| Ethnic | any of the baasic divisions or groups of mankind, distinguished by customs, characteristics, language, etc. |
| Ethnocentrism | the emotional attitude that one's own race, nation, group, or culture is superior to all others. |
| Extended (Joint) Family | membership within household includes father, mother, all of their children (except married daughters), their son's wive's and children (except married daughters) |
| Famliy of Orientation | the family into which one is born. |
| Famliy of Procreation | the famliy established by one's marriage and the production of children. |
| Folkways | behaviors that 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. |
| Funeral | rites with the body present |
| Funeral Rite | an all inclusive term used to encompass all funerals and/or memorial services. |
| Funeralization | a process involving all activities associated with final disposition. |
| Immediate Disposition | any dispostion of human remains which is completely devoid of any form of funeral riteat the time of disposition. |
| Humanistic Funeral Rite | a funeral rite that is in essence devoid of any reigious connotation. |
| Industiralization | the change from independent multi-talented, self sufficient family units to employment of family members in jobs outside the unit, making them dependent on outside resources for their total needs. |
| Laws | a must -behavior not necessarily a basic or or important pattern of a people (related to death) but one which os enforced by those governing. |
| Matriarchal | the mother rules the family; a woman holding a position analogous to that of a patriarch. |
| Memorial Service | funeral rite with the body not present. |
| Mobility | the state of quality of being mobile; the ability to move from place to place readily, or to move from class to class, either up or down. |
| Modern | of or characteristic of the present or recent times; not ancient, often used to designate certain contemporary tendencies. |
| Mores | must-behavior; the basic and important patterns of ideas and acts of a people as related to the treatment of the dead which calls for a strong reaction from the society if violated. |
| Neo-localism | the tendency of offspring to move away from the area in which they were born. |
| Neo-traditional Funeral Rite | a funeral rite that deviates from the normal or prescribed circumstances of established custom. |
| Nuclear Family | membership within household includes one man, one woman, and their children, if any. |
| Patriarchal | the father rules the family; poweer is passed to the oldest male child. |
| Pre-literate Society | a culture developed before the invention of writing, and hence, leaving no written record. |
| Primitive Funeral Rite | a funeral rite which may be construed as being identifiable with a preliterate society. |
| Religion | a culturally entrenched patten of behavior maade up of: 1.) sacred beliefs, 2.) emotional feelings accompanying the beliefs and 3.) overt conduct presumably implementing the beliefs and feelings. |
| Rite | any event performed in a solemn and prescribed manner. |
| Rites of Passage | ceremonies centering around transition in life from one status to another (ex: baptism, marriage, and the funeral). |
| Rules | specified methods of procedure. |
| Single Parent Family | membership consists of one adult, either male or female, and his/her children. |
| Social | a group of persons forming in a single community with some interests in common. |
| Social Function | 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. |
| Social Stratification | categorization of people by money, prestige, and power; a ranking of social status (position) in groups such as upper, middle, and lower class. |
| Sociology | the science of social groups; the processes that tend to maintain or change these forms of organizations and the relations between groups. |
| Subculture | a division, or smaller identifiable unit of culture, connected to that culture by common traits, having unique traits to itself. |
| Symbol | anything to which socially created meaning is given. |
| Taboos | must-behavior that dictates the individual must abstain from certain acts dealing with death. |
| Traditional Funeral Rite | a funeral rite that follows a prescribed ritual or ceremony which may be dictated either by religious belief or social custom. |
| Urbanization | the change from rural to urban in character. |
