SOCIOLOGY OF FUNERAL SERVICE FINAL EXAM QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS ALREADY
PASSED
Globalization - Answers The process of connecting countries and cultures in economics,
political, and social activities.
Culture and components - Answers Values, symbols, norms, mores
Values - Answers Benokratis (2014), standards by which members of a particular culture define
what is good or bad, moral or immoral, proper or improper, desirable or undesirable, beautiful or
ugly.
Values - Answers Benokratis (2014), points out values are shared by most and provide "general
guidelines" for behavior rather than a set of rules for specific behavior.
**Remember they are shared widely but are not uniform**
Symbols - Answers Anything that communicates or carries meaning among members of a
culture.
**language is most widely used in culture**
Norms - Answers Social rules, often divided onto classes or categories, based on significance of
an act and depth of the reaction from others.
**Folkways (Summer 1940) are these with little or no moral significance**
Mores - Answers Behavior that carries moral significance.
Violation of this type of social rule often is accompanied by both informal (such as stigma,
ostracism) and formal sanctions (fines, jail, or imprisonment)
**the "act" should not be correlated with a particular category of norm w/out considering
context and symbols**
Building blocks of society - Answers 5 areas
Viewed in hierarchy order
Roles, status, groups, organizations, and institutions
Roles - Answers Expected behavior that are attached to 1 or more statuses
**ex: college student expected to buy books**
Status - Answers Socially recognized position that people occupy
Most common are occupational and family
, **ex: Dr, dentist, mother, father**
Social group - Answers 2 or more ppl who engage in meaningful interaction.
**Primary (Cooley 1909) such as a family, is contrasted to a secondary group whose goal is to
achieve some task, such as a work group**
Organizations - Answers Viewed as formal entities that are created to achieve some goal
** FH both corporate and privately owned**
Institution - Answers Most abstract of building blocks
Purpose and function served in society
Full of statuses and roles
Industrialization - Answers The process by which a society transforms from a primarily
agricultural adaptive strategy (economy) to the manufacturing of goods and services through
advanced technical enterprises.
Division of labor - Answers One of the consequences of industrialization is more complex
division of labor in the manner in which goods are produced.
Growth of middle class - Answers As good and services became more plentiful and less
expensive in mass productions, more ppl are able to afford more goods and services.
**also social variables such as politics, values, social movements**
(schlesinger 2011) the work of labor unions pressed for higher wages and better work
conditions
Leisure - Answers In 1900, more than 40% of our population was dedicated to food production.
Today less than 2% dedicated to food production.
Post-Industrialization - Answers A type of adaptive strategy (economy) that is based on high-
tech (computers) and information rather than the production of goods.
Most products are imported from China, Mexico, Korea, India, etc., due to lower production
costs
Urbanization - Answers Involves living patterns that reflect a high density of people I a relatively
bounded space.
Ex: in US 1920 marks the year when more people lived in urban than rural areas.
**role playing tends to be prompted by self-interest rather than the interest of kinship (Tonnies
PASSED
Globalization - Answers The process of connecting countries and cultures in economics,
political, and social activities.
Culture and components - Answers Values, symbols, norms, mores
Values - Answers Benokratis (2014), standards by which members of a particular culture define
what is good or bad, moral or immoral, proper or improper, desirable or undesirable, beautiful or
ugly.
Values - Answers Benokratis (2014), points out values are shared by most and provide "general
guidelines" for behavior rather than a set of rules for specific behavior.
**Remember they are shared widely but are not uniform**
Symbols - Answers Anything that communicates or carries meaning among members of a
culture.
**language is most widely used in culture**
Norms - Answers Social rules, often divided onto classes or categories, based on significance of
an act and depth of the reaction from others.
**Folkways (Summer 1940) are these with little or no moral significance**
Mores - Answers Behavior that carries moral significance.
Violation of this type of social rule often is accompanied by both informal (such as stigma,
ostracism) and formal sanctions (fines, jail, or imprisonment)
**the "act" should not be correlated with a particular category of norm w/out considering
context and symbols**
Building blocks of society - Answers 5 areas
Viewed in hierarchy order
Roles, status, groups, organizations, and institutions
Roles - Answers Expected behavior that are attached to 1 or more statuses
**ex: college student expected to buy books**
Status - Answers Socially recognized position that people occupy
Most common are occupational and family
, **ex: Dr, dentist, mother, father**
Social group - Answers 2 or more ppl who engage in meaningful interaction.
**Primary (Cooley 1909) such as a family, is contrasted to a secondary group whose goal is to
achieve some task, such as a work group**
Organizations - Answers Viewed as formal entities that are created to achieve some goal
** FH both corporate and privately owned**
Institution - Answers Most abstract of building blocks
Purpose and function served in society
Full of statuses and roles
Industrialization - Answers The process by which a society transforms from a primarily
agricultural adaptive strategy (economy) to the manufacturing of goods and services through
advanced technical enterprises.
Division of labor - Answers One of the consequences of industrialization is more complex
division of labor in the manner in which goods are produced.
Growth of middle class - Answers As good and services became more plentiful and less
expensive in mass productions, more ppl are able to afford more goods and services.
**also social variables such as politics, values, social movements**
(schlesinger 2011) the work of labor unions pressed for higher wages and better work
conditions
Leisure - Answers In 1900, more than 40% of our population was dedicated to food production.
Today less than 2% dedicated to food production.
Post-Industrialization - Answers A type of adaptive strategy (economy) that is based on high-
tech (computers) and information rather than the production of goods.
Most products are imported from China, Mexico, Korea, India, etc., due to lower production
costs
Urbanization - Answers Involves living patterns that reflect a high density of people I a relatively
bounded space.
Ex: in US 1920 marks the year when more people lived in urban than rural areas.
**role playing tends to be prompted by self-interest rather than the interest of kinship (Tonnies
