A funeral rite that is adjusted to the needs and wants of those directly involved; one in which has been altered to suit the trends of the times
Adaptive Funeral Rite
Dealing with Agriculture, farm based.
Agrarian
The locale of the extended (Joint) family system
Agrarian
A situation in which a person or entity is unknown
Anonymity
Existential statements about the physical and social world
Beliefs
A household or family unit created by one male and one female and their children from previous marriages and the children from the present marriage
Blended Family
The creation of a system which governs through departments and subdivisions managed by sets of officials following an inflexible routine
Bureaucratization
An instrumental action dealing with death, that is also expressional and that may or may not be charged with symbolic content expressing, among other things, the attitudes of the participants and possible onlookers (passive participants) who may be regarded as co-beneficiaries
Ceremony aka Ritual
A social grouping in which members possess roughly equivalent culturally valued attributes
Class
Two unrelated adults of the opposite sex sharing the same living quarters
Co-habitants
Living or happening in the same period
Contemporary
The reduction of a dead human remains to its essential inorganic elements by use of fire
Cremation
The emotional attitude that all cultures are equal and pertinent
Cultural Relativism
Like abstract patterns of and for living and dying, which are identifiable in all cultures
Cultural Universal
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
Culture
Social behavior as dictated by the tradition of the people
Customs
Pertaining to demography; the science of vital statistics, or of births, deaths, marriages, etc. of populations
Demographic
The acquiring of the culture by a person through deliberate instruction by other members of that society
Direct Learning
The belief that the created is reunited with the creator at death
Doctrine of Atonement
Male and female have equal rights, duties, and governing power
Egalitarian
The method by which the social values are internalized (learned)
Enculturation aka Socialization
Any of the basic divisions or groups of mankind, distinguished by customs, characteristics, languages, rather than physical characteristics of race
Ethnic
The emotional attitude that one’s own race, nation, group, or culture is superior to all others
Ethnocentrism
A household or family unit consisting of father and mother, all their children (except married daughters), their son’s wives and children
Extended family aka Joint Family
The family into which one is born
Family of Orientation aka Family of Origin
The family established by one’s marriage and the production of children
Family of Procreation
Behaviors which are constructed as somewhat less compulsive than mores of the same society, and do not call for a strong reaction from the society if violated
Folkways
Rites with the body present
Funeral
An all-inclusive term used to encompass all funerals and/or memorial services
Funeral Rite
A process involving all activities associated with final disposition
Funeralization
A funeral rite that is in essence devoid of religious connotation
Humanistic Funeral Rite
Any disposition of a human remains which is completely devoid of any form of funeral rite at the time of disposition
Immediate Disposition
A process by which a person learns the norms of his culture by observation of others in his or her society
Indirect learning
Individual crafting of products is replaced by manufacture of goods utilizing mass production techniques
Industrialization
The offspring of a specific set of parents
Issue
A must-behavior not necessarily a basic or important patter of a 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
Law
The mother rules the family; a woman holding a position analogous to that of a patriarch
Matriarchal
Funeral rites with the body not present
Memorial Service
The state or quality of being mobile; the ability to move from place to place readily; or to move from class to class, up or down
Mobility
Of or characteristic of the present or recent times; not ancient, often used to designate certain contemporary tendencies
Modern
A household or family unit created by related nuclear families and/or friendships
Modified Extended Family
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
Mores
The tendency of off-spring to move away from the area in which they were born
Neo-localism
A funeral rite which deviates from the normal prescribed circumstances of established custom
Non-Traditional Funeral Rite
A household or family unit consisting of one man and one woman married to each other and any children they have together
Nuclear Family
Behavioral patterns which are observable by others
Overt Conduct
The father rules the family; power is passed to the oldest male child
Patriarchal
A culture developed before the invention of writing, and hence, leaving no written recored
Pre-literate society
Arrangements between a funeral establishment and family which designates details of a funeral service, including the selection of merchandise, prior to the death of the person
Pre-Need Programs
A funeral rite which may be construed as being identifiable with a preliterate society
Primitive Funeral Rite
A culturally entrenched pattern of behavior made up of sacred beliefs, emotional feelings accompanying those beliefs, and overt conduct presumably implementing the beliefs and feelings
Religion
Any event performed in a solemn and prescribed manner
Rite
Ceremonies centering around transition in life from one status to another
Rites of Passage
Any instrumental action dealing with death. that is also expressional and that may or may not be charged with symbolic content expression, among other things, the attitudes of the participants and possible onlookers who may be regarded as cobeneficiaries
Ritual aka Ceremony
Specified methods of procedure
Rules
A household or family unit consisting of one adult, either male or female, and his/her children
Single Parent Family
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 Function
The upward or downward movement of a person or family within the social classes of their society
Social Mobility
Categorization of people by money, prestige, and power; a ranking of social status in groups such as upper, middle, and lower classes
Social Stratification
The method by which the social values are internalied
Socialization aka Enculturation
A group of person forming a single community with some interests in common
Society
The science of social groups; the processes that tend to maintain or change these forms of organizations and their relations between groups and individuals
Sociology
A division, or smaller identifiable unit of culture, connected to that culture by common traits, having unique traits to itself
Subculture
Things to which socially created meaning is given
Symbols
Must-behaviors which dictates the individual must abstain from certain acts dealing with death
Taboos
The study of death, derived from the name Thanatos, Greek god of Death
Thanatology
A funeral rite that follows a prescribed ritual or ceremony dictated either by religious belief or social custom
Traditional funeral Rite
The change from rural to urban in character
Urbanization