Outline

• Scientifice study of the human mind
• Begins at the time of death or anticipation of death and ends with the acceptance of death

Study and treatment of mental disease

Study of social groups and thier functions

• study of group functions while dealing with death and dying
• the basics of looking at the effects of death on the family of the deseaced and family's response to that death
• begins with the arrangement conference and ends with final disposition: cremation, final destination, green, kriogenics (final disposal of body)

To be scientific in observing the influences of social structures, interrelationships and interactions on human thinking, feeling and behavior while in the confines of funeral service

in psychology, the study focuses on the individual behavior patterns while in sociology the focus is on group behavior patterns. The response of death is reflected in the family's attitudes, reactions and emotions.

• Successfull
• consiterate

recite over and over

• Tangible means: something you can touch
• like flowers, religious items, casket, programs
• (something you can touch)
• Intagible means: something you can't touch
• like music, location, poems, time

• unique
• individual wants
• individual needs
• has own established opionion of what would be an appropriate fairwell for there loved one

• meet there wants and needs
• be responsive (notice) there tangiable & intangiable request
• you must notice and be alert to details

• cultural
• prefrence
• (their way of life)

• Mores: must be-haviores- generally tied to religious beliefs
• Example 1: catholic rosary
• Example 2: disallowing the use of instruments in a Church of Christ service
• Folkways: informal practices or "should" ways
• Example 1: Dressing up to attend church services
• Example 2: Attending the graveside ceremony after the funeral
• Customs: Social behaviors considered to be the norm that are usually based on traditions
• Example 1: Caucasian families burying their dead 3 days after death
• Example 2: African American families bury their dead on Saturdays
• Example 3: Traditionally Hispanic families will watch the casket being lowered into the ground and even watch the soil being replaced in the grave before they leave.

some, but all culturals all watch the body being lowered now

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(related to death) but one which is enforced by those governing; a rule of action prescribed by an authority able to enforce its will

These are general things learned in childhood as well as customs instilled in you by those closest to you

• 1. Location-geographic
• 2. Religion-families in more recent years tend to have more than one religious affiliatio
• 3. Ethnic- self explanatory
• 4. language- some families may have people speak more than one language and this may affect how a service is conducted

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Urbanization has lead to decrease in the importance of an individual. Most people do not know their neighbors' names, or anything important about their lives. This is why funerals have become more important and more personilized. Funerals are a way for people to recognize the individual who has died and pay tribute to them and what they've meant to those still living.

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• 1. Goverment: the establishment of rules and regulations for orderly living
• 2. marriage: the establishment of family
• 3. funeral rites: the response to the death of another member of the culture
• because cultural universals are so personal to the members of each culture, generally they will cause ethnocentrism.

• is the feeling that one's culture is superior to others
• because of ethnocentrism, each culture deems their response to death as best and they may not understand or appreciate the response to death from members of another culture.

funeral rite (rite)-

Funeral-

Memorial Service-

• 1. Traditional Funeral Rite: A well defined ritual or ceremony which is based on either religious beliefs or social customs
• 2. Adaptive Funeral Rite (nontraditional Funeral Rite): Altered to suit the needs of the family or trends of the time
• 3. Humanistic Funeral Rite: Devoid of any religious connotation
• 4. Immediate Disposition: No ceremony held
• 5. Primitive Funeral Rite: Preliterate Society/Tribal services

• 1. The funeral is a social functions
• 2. The funeral rite is a cultural universal
• 3. The funeral rite expresses the relations between the type of family you will serve and how they operate
• 4. The funeral rite reflects both modern and contemporary tendencies
• Modern-present or recent times
• Contemporary-of the same time or occurring at the same time

• Burial-interment or earth burial
• Entombment
• body donation to science
• burial at sea
• creamation

• is the process by which a person learns the social values of a society.
• the process begins at birth. from childhood you learn what your family's expectations are of you through direct learning. This conributes to your culturals traits.

• is a social behavior considered to be normal and are generally based on tradition of people involved. They outline the individual procedures a family will follow when making funeral arrangements.
• Through the family determins which customs to follow when making arrangements, society does have an impact. Society indicates what behaviors they consider to be moral obligations of the family. These are called mores.

are the basic and important patterns, ideas and acts of people. Society expects/requires us to be respectful and to care for the dead. Mores indicated what we are and allowed to do in regard to the dead. Actions that are considered forbidden by society when dealing with the dead are called taboos. Actions that are considered forbidden by govermental agencies when dealing with the dead are called laws.

rules are specific steps and regulations to carry out laws

are actions performed during a rite which may or may not have symbolic meaning tothe participants or observers of the actions

is a formal, religious or public occasion celebrating a particular event

is the prescribed order of perfoming rites; procedures regularly followed

is the basic focus in funeral service. your main concern of all services offered as a funeral director is how the family is impacted by the death of one of it's members. Meeting the family's needs should be your goal.