Sociology of Funeral Service -AAMI
UPDATED ACTUAL Exam Questions and
CORRECT Answers
Adaptive Funeral Rite - CORRECT ANSWER - Funeral rite that is adjusted to the needs
and wants of those directly involved; altered to suit the trend of the times
Agrarian - CORRECT ANSWER - dealing with agriculture , farm based.
Extended Joint Family System
Anonymity - CORRECT ANSWER - Situation in which a person or entity is unknown.
Blended Family - CORRECT ANSWER - 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 - CORRECT ANSWER - The creation of a system which governs
through departments and subdivisions managed by sets of officials following an inflexible
routine. Characterized by specialization, hierarchy, formal rules, impersonality and a specialized
administrative staff.
Ceremony (ritual) - CORRECT ANSWER - 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. Any action performed during a rite which may or may
not have symbolic meaning to the participants or observer of the action.
Class - CORRECT ANSWER - a social grouping in which members possess roughly
equivalent culturally valued attributes.
, Cohabitants - CORRECT ANSWER - two unrelated adults of the opposite sex sharing the
same living quarters.
Contemporary - CORRECT ANSWER - living or happening in the same period.
Cultural relativism - CORRECT ANSWER - the emotional attitude that all cultures are
equal and pertinent.
Cultural universal - CORRECT ANSWER - like abstract patterns of and for living and
dying, which are identifiable in all cultures. Common traits or patterns found in all cultures of
humankind.
Culture - CORRECT ANSWER - 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.
Customs - CORRECT ANSWER - social behavior as dictated by the tradition of the
people.
Demographic - CORRECT ANSWER - pertaining to demography; the science of vital
statistics or of births, deaths, marriages, etc. of populations.
Egalitarian - CORRECT ANSWER - male and female have equal rights, duties and
governing power.
Enculturation (socialization) - CORRECT ANSWER - the method by which the social
values are internalized (learned).
Ethnic - CORRECT ANSWER - any of the basic divisions or groups of humankind
distinguished by customs, characteristics and languages, rather than physical characteristics of
race.
UPDATED ACTUAL Exam Questions and
CORRECT Answers
Adaptive Funeral Rite - CORRECT ANSWER - Funeral rite that is adjusted to the needs
and wants of those directly involved; altered to suit the trend of the times
Agrarian - CORRECT ANSWER - dealing with agriculture , farm based.
Extended Joint Family System
Anonymity - CORRECT ANSWER - Situation in which a person or entity is unknown.
Blended Family - CORRECT ANSWER - 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 - CORRECT ANSWER - The creation of a system which governs
through departments and subdivisions managed by sets of officials following an inflexible
routine. Characterized by specialization, hierarchy, formal rules, impersonality and a specialized
administrative staff.
Ceremony (ritual) - CORRECT ANSWER - 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. Any action performed during a rite which may or may
not have symbolic meaning to the participants or observer of the action.
Class - CORRECT ANSWER - a social grouping in which members possess roughly
equivalent culturally valued attributes.
, Cohabitants - CORRECT ANSWER - two unrelated adults of the opposite sex sharing the
same living quarters.
Contemporary - CORRECT ANSWER - living or happening in the same period.
Cultural relativism - CORRECT ANSWER - the emotional attitude that all cultures are
equal and pertinent.
Cultural universal - CORRECT ANSWER - like abstract patterns of and for living and
dying, which are identifiable in all cultures. Common traits or patterns found in all cultures of
humankind.
Culture - CORRECT ANSWER - 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.
Customs - CORRECT ANSWER - social behavior as dictated by the tradition of the
people.
Demographic - CORRECT ANSWER - pertaining to demography; the science of vital
statistics or of births, deaths, marriages, etc. of populations.
Egalitarian - CORRECT ANSWER - male and female have equal rights, duties and
governing power.
Enculturation (socialization) - CORRECT ANSWER - the method by which the social
values are internalized (learned).
Ethnic - CORRECT ANSWER - any of the basic divisions or groups of humankind
distinguished by customs, characteristics and languages, rather than physical characteristics of
race.
