adaptive funeral rite - Answers a funeral rite that is adjusted to the needs and wants of those directly
involved and has been altered to suit the trends of the times
agrarian - Answers dealing with agriculture, farm based; the original locale of the extended (joint) family
system
anonymity - Answers a situation in which a person or entity is unknown
blended family - Answers a household or family unit created by one male and one female and the
children from their previous marriages and may include children from the present marriage
bureaucratization - Answers the creation of a system which governs through departments and
subdivisions managed by sets of officials following an inflexible routine
ceremony - Answers 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
civil union - Answers a legal relationship between two people of the same sex
class - Answers a social grouping in which members possess roughly equivalent culturally valued
attributes
cohabitants - Answers two unrelated adults sharing the same living quarters
contemporary - Answers living or happening in the same period
cultural assimilation - Answers the process by which a person or group's language and/or culture come
to resemble those of another group
cultural relativism - Answers the emotional attitude that all cultures are equal and pertinent
cultural universal - Answers common traits or patterns found in all cultures
culture - Answers the rules, ideas, and beliefs shared by members of society of and for living and dying,
which are learned directly or indirectly
customs - Answers social behavior as dictated by the tradition of the people
demographics - Answers the science of vital statistics, or of births, deaths, marriages, etc. of populations
(information gathered for death certificate)
direct learning - Answers the acquiring of the culture by a person through deliberate instruction by other
members of that society
egalitarian - Answers male and female have equal rights, duties, and governing power