Sociology of Funeral Service Final Exam
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What involves little or no moral insignificance? - answer✔Folkways
__________&_________ have driven globalization since the beginning of trade. -
answer✔Trade, commerce
The institution of the funerary is full of statuses and roles. - answer✔True
What involve behavior that carries moral significance? - answer✔Mores
What is an example of informal education? - answer✔Learning American Sign Language from
your older sibling.
What is an action conducted during a rite which may or may not have symbolic meaning to the
participants or witnesses of the rite? - answer✔Ceremony
What is the most widely used symbol or set of symbols in a culture? - answer✔Language
Who claimed that the American funerary serves 2 important functions? - answer✔Kastenbaum
Which of the following is an idea of the central concept of socializtion? - answer✔All of the
above
Globalization is the process of connecting countries & cultures in economic, political, & social
activities. - answer✔True
What is 1 of 2 important functions that the American funerary serves? - answer✔Providing a
story about the loss of one of its members and the concomitant narratives of the survival of the
community.
The building blocks of society may be viewed in what kind of order? - answer✔Hierarchal
Which of the following is a component part of culture? - answer✔All of the above
Who coined the terms "social statics" and "social dynamics"? - answer✔Comte
A social group is two or more who engage in a meaningful interation. - answer✔True
The death of any individual has a large impact on the larger community. - answer✔False
In 1900, what percentage of our population was dedicated to food production? - answer✔>40%
What is an adaptive strategy that is based on high technologies and information rather that the
production of goods? - answer✔Post-Industrialization
Who was one of the first scholars/sociologists to write about the growth of bureaucracies and
detail its social arrangements? - answer✔Max Weber
Social anonymity is defined as, People are relatively unkown to the larger community. -
answer✔True
What is the last attempt on the part of the decedent to decry the anonymity of urban living? -
answer✔Personalized funerary experience
One of the most profound changes (as it relates to the funeral professional) in urban life involves
social __________. - answer✔relatioships
What is an institution? - answer✔A relatively large, formal secondary group
What types of changes have a broad and deep impact on how societies are organized? -
answer✔Paradigm shifts
What percentage of all people in the U.S. died in their own homes in 1900? - answer✔80%
What is the process by which a society transforms from a primarily agricultural adaptive strategy
to the manufacturing of goods and services through advanced technical enterprises? -
answer✔Industrialization
What is bureaucracy? - answer✔A method of administrative system governing any large
institution.
What are examples of bureaucracies? - answer✔All of the above
What is NOT an example of an institutional life? - answer✔Funeral Homes
When did more people begin to live in urban than rural areas? - answer✔1920
What used to dictate the price of funeral arrangements? - answer✔The cost of the casket
_______are simply a collection of statistical data about characteristics of a population. -
answer✔Demographics
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