Mortuary Science Glossary

adaptive funeral rite - Correct Answer-a funeral rite that is adjusted to the needs and wants of those directly involved; one, which has been altered to suit the trends of the times 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 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 the possible onlookers (passive participants) who may be regarded as co-beneficiaries 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