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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 times | |
| a federally funded program designed to place children with the elderly to stimulate family relationships which might not be present in the participants' normal situation | |
| dealing with agriculture | |
| depersonalization; being unknown; lack of individuality | |
| the creation of a system which governs through departments and subdivisions managed by sets of officials following an inflexible routing | |
| similar to ritual but it may or may not have symbolic content | |
| a social grouping in which members possess roughly equivalent culturally valued attributes | |
| living or happening in the same period | |
| the process by which the dead human body is reduced to inorganic bone fragments in a specially designed retort | |
| the emotional attitude that all cultures are equivalent and pertinent | |
| like abstract patterns, of and for living and dying, which are identifiable in all cultures | |
| abstract patterns of and for living and dying, which are learned directly or indirectly | |
| social behavior as directed by the tradition of a people | |
| pertaining to demography (the science of vital statistics, or of births, deaths, marriages, etc., of population) | |
| the belief that the created is reunited with the creator after death | |
| same as Immediate Disposition | |
| the acquisition of the culture by a person through deliberate instruction by other members of that society | |
| a form of family government which holds that both male and female (husband & wife) have equal rights, duties & governing power | |
| the method by which the culture or way of life are learned by new members | |
| designating or any of the basic divisions or groups of mankind, or distinguished by customs, characteristics, language, etc. | |
| the emotional attitude that one's own race, nation, group, or culture is superior to all others (ie. racism, nationalism, sexism, ageism, anti-semitism, bigotry) | |
| in the socially accepted monogamous marriage, one man, one woman & any number of issue (children) | |
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| rites with the body present | |
| a funeral service practitioner who arranges the funeral service with the family\ | |
| a funeral service practitioner who conducts that funeral which has been arranged prior to the funeral service | |
| an all inclusive term used to encompass all funerals and/or memorial services | |
| any licensed person who is involved in any and/or all of the various stages of the funeralization process | |
| a philosophy which contends that one must seek life's meaning or fulfillment in the future rather than in the past or present | |
| (as related to funeral service) an establishment which provides a home-like atmosphere for the terminally ill during the time period which immediately precedes their death | |
| a funeral rite that is in essence devoid of religious connation | |
| a process by which a person learns the norms of his culture by observation of others in his society | |
| specifically in sociology, the change from independent multi-talented self-sufficient family centers to employment of family members in jobs outside the unit, making them dependent | |
| the offspring or children of a specific set of parents | |
| as defined by the number of people within a single household; one man, one woman, married sons & their wives & issue, & any unmarried issue | |
| a must behavior not necessarily a basic or important pattern of a people but one which is enforced by those governing | |
| a program which enables families to exchange a purchased lot or grave in one cemetery with a family who has a purchased lot or grave in another cemetery - an agreement between two | |
| a family which is governed by the eldest female (wife, mother) | |
| the process of the emergence of the personal characteristics and behavioral phenomena through endogenous growth processes | |
| funeral rites with the body not present | |
| an organization, public or private which endorses the practice of conducting funeral rites without the body of the deceased present | |
| the state or quality of being mobile | |
| characteristic of the present or recent time | |
| a group of nuclear families which may or may not be related by bloodline, but which are bound to one another by emotional ties | |
| folkways which are considered conducive to the welfare of the society | |
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| a phenomena which results from the geographic movements of the family unit away from its ancestral home, to bring one's culture into the new geographic locale | |
| as defined by membership in a single household; one man, one woman, and any number of unmarried issue | |
| behavioral patterns which are observable by others | |
| one who participates in an event simply by listening and observing rather than by overt actions, still deriving benefit from such behavior | |
| a family which is dominated by the male | |
| pertaining to a society which existed prior to the invention of the written word | |
| agreements between client and funeral service practitioners which designate details of a funeral service prior to the death of the person to which the agreement pertains | |
| those funeral rites which have been identified in pre-literate societies | |
| a solemn religious event performed in an established prescribed manner | |
| instrumental actions which are charged with symbolic content expressing the attitudes of the active and passive participants | |
| specified methods of procedure | |
| 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 | |
| the upperward or downward movement of a person or family within the social classes of their society and culture | |
| the method by which the social values of the funeral rite is internalized (learned) | |
| the study of social groups | |
| divisions of a culture, connected to the larger culture by common traits, but having unique traits of its own | |
| a social prohibition of certain actions, thought, or speech by members of a society brought about by convention or traditions of that society's culture | |
| the study of death | |
| those funeral rites that follow a prescribed ritual or ceremony which may be dictated either by religious beliefs or social customs of a society | |
| the change from rural to urban | |
| a period of time prior to the funeral service which allows the family and society-at-large to see the deceased in an open casket setting | |
| a period of time prior to the funeral service which allows the family and society-at-large to comfort one another over the death of someone they knew or were related to by bloodlin | |
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