Which of the following is NOT an element of the funeral as a cultural universal?
cremation
Separation anxiety is the foundation of understanding death for children:
Birth to 3 years
Children in this age group often view death as living in a changed way.
3 to 5 years
Personification is most associated with this age group:
9 years and older
Magical thinking is most often associated with this age group:
5 to 9 years
Children often view death as sleep in this age range:
3 to 5 years
The average number of years a newborn in a given population can expect to live:
Life expectancy
Two parents, children from their previous marriages, and may include children from a present marriage:
Blended
Emotional attitude that all cultures are equal and pertinent:
Cultural relativism
The rules, ideas, and beliefs shared by members of society:
Culture
Common traits or patterns found in all cultures:
Cultural universals
Social behavior as dictated by the tradition of a people:
Customs
The statistical study of human population:
Demographics
Both parents have equal rights, duties, and governing power:
Egalitarian
Method by which social lessons and values are learned and internalized:
Enculturation
Emotional attitude that one's own group or culture is superior:
Ethnocentrism
Family consisting of father, mother, all their children (except married daughters), sons' wives and children
Joint
Behaviors less compulsive than mores which don't cause a strong reaction from society if violated:
Folkways
An event that allows individuals to gather for sharing a common purpose:
Social function
The systematic study of human social interaction and social groups:
Sociology
A division of culture, having unique traits unto itself:
Subculture
A social prohibition of certain actions:
Taboo
Individual crafting of goods is replaced by mass production techniques:
Industrialization
Rules of action prescribed by an authority able to enforce its will:
Laws
A form of family government where the mother possesses power and the decision making right:
Matriarchal
Family unit created by related nuclear families and/or friendship:
Modified extended
Must behaviors, which call for a strong reaction from society if violated:
Mores
The movement of individuals or families from the area in which they were born and raised:
Neo-localism
A group held belief about how members should behave in a given context:
Norms
Folkways, mores, and laws are all types of:
Norms
Family consisting of two parents married to each other and their children, if any:
Nuclear
A form of family government where the father possesses power and the decision making right:
Patriarchal
Another term for agricultural or farm-based is:
Agrarian
Acquiring of culture by a person through deliberate instruction:
Direct Learning
Process by which a person learns the culture by observation of others:
indirect learning
Which of the following is a characteristic of a joint family historically
Self-sufficient
Which of the following is a characteristic of a nuclear family?
Highly mobile
Using softer language to mask harsh realities:
Euphemisms
The leading causes of death in 1900 were:
Acute
The leading causes of death today are:
Chronic
Change from rural to urban; population movement into emerging cities:
Urbanization
The study of dying, death and bereavement:
Thanatology
Which of the following is NOT a part of the cultural universal around funerals:
Embalming
Taboos are the opposite of:
Mores
In 1900 the average life expectancy was significantly lower due to deaths among:
Infants and children
The leading causes of death today can be characterized as:
Degenerative
The family government where both parents have equal rights and governing power:
Egalitarian
The mature concept of death includes understanding that death is:
The end of physical functioning; final and permanent; and universal and inevitable
Believing that death is the bogey man is an example of:
Personification
Believing that death was caused by a bad thought or hurtful words:
Magical Thinking