1 | Page
Sociology of Funeral Service -AAMI
Questions and Answers
Adaptive Funeral Rite Ans: Funeral rite that is adjusted to the
needs and wants of those directly involved; altered to suit the
trend of the times
Agrarian Ans: dealing with agriculture , farm based.
Extended Joint Family System
Anonymity Ans: Situation in which a person or entity is unknown.
Blended Family Ans: 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 Ans: The creation of a system which governs
through departments and subdivisions managed by sets of
© 2025 All rights reserved
, 2 | Page
officials following an inflexible routine. Characterized by
specialization, hierarchy, formal rules, impersonality and a
specialized administrative staff.
Ceremony (ritual) Ans: 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 Ans: a social grouping in which members possess roughly
equivalent culturally valued attributes.
Cohabitants Ans: two unrelated adults of the opposite sex sharing
the same living quarters.
Contemporary Ans: living or happening in the same period.
© 2025 All rights reserved
Sociology of Funeral Service -AAMI
Questions and Answers
Adaptive Funeral Rite Ans: Funeral rite that is adjusted to the
needs and wants of those directly involved; altered to suit the
trend of the times
Agrarian Ans: dealing with agriculture , farm based.
Extended Joint Family System
Anonymity Ans: Situation in which a person or entity is unknown.
Blended Family Ans: 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 Ans: The creation of a system which governs
through departments and subdivisions managed by sets of
© 2025 All rights reserved
, 2 | Page
officials following an inflexible routine. Characterized by
specialization, hierarchy, formal rules, impersonality and a
specialized administrative staff.
Ceremony (ritual) Ans: 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 Ans: a social grouping in which members possess roughly
equivalent culturally valued attributes.
Cohabitants Ans: two unrelated adults of the opposite sex sharing
the same living quarters.
Contemporary Ans: living or happening in the same period.
© 2025 All rights reserved
