Deck 1: Studying Dying, Death, and Berevement

Question 1

Physical anthropologists who study death-related phenomena have a special interest in the death rituals in different cultures.

Answer 1

False

Question 2

The American society formally prepares individuals to deal with death and dying on the personal and emotional levels.

Answer 2

False

Question 3

Jessica Mitford's The American Way of Death in 1963 was very favorable toward the funeral industry.

Answer 3

False

Question 4

The interdisciplinary study of dying, death and bereavement is called "thanatology."

Question 5

"Suicide doctor" in Michigan in the 1990s was Dr.Jack Kevorkian.

Question 6

The conception sex ratio and the sex ratio at birth in the United States favors males over females.

Question 7

Exchange theory is primarily concerned with the issue of societal maintenance and social equilibrium.

Question 8

Death appears to be more abstract for those growing up today than for previous generations.

Question 9

Anthropologist Ashley Montagu suggests that women have a superior use of emotions because they are more likely to cry than men.

Question 10

Life expectancy in the United States is greater for males than females.

Question 11

Biological death has remained much the same over the years and so has the manner in which humans experience death.

Question 12

The leading cause of death in the United States today is cardiovascular disease.True

Question 13

An early text published in 1959 for thanatology was an anthology by psychologist Herman Feifel entitled The Meaning of Death.

Question 14

Gerontontophoia is the fear of dying of a debilitating disease.False

Question 15

Conflict theory is concerned with explaining the stability of society.

Question 16

Television specials with a theme of death and dying began emerging in the 1970s in the United States.

Question 17

In the early 1940s Hollywood began to produce films around the theme of death when the "good guy" died.False

Question 18

Students enrolled in college courses in death and dying tend to have less death anxiety at the end of the course than at the beginning.True

Question 19

Sociology is a multi?paradigm science.True

Question 20

Currently there appears to be almost an obsession, and certainly a fascination, with death-related themes in American movies.

Question 21

Which was not cited in the text as a reason for the increased interest in the study of dying, death and bereavement?

A)an aura of mystery developed with deaths occurring in institutional settings
B)prolonged life as a result of medical and scientific breakthroughs resulting in numerous ethical issues
C)large percentages of the population leaving the urban areas and returning to the farm where death is a daily event
D)all of the above were cited

Question 22

The primary cause of death in the United States today is:

A)accidents
B)old age
C)cardiovascular disease
D)pneumonia
E)AIDS

Question 23

The events of September 11, 2001, have caused our society to become more paranoid.True

Question 24

Most people dying in the U.S.today die:

A)at home
B)on the highways
C)in a hospital or nursing home
D)on city streets
E)in their sleep at the office

Question 25

The long-living people on the Black Sea who seem to just keep on living past 100 years of age are the Yanomamo.
Multiple-Choice Questions

Question 26

The best-selling single book on death and dying (published in 1969) is:

A)Jessica Mitford's The American Way of Death
B)Elizabeth Kubler-Ross' On Death and Dying
C)Herman Feifel's The Meaning of Death
D)Ernest Becker's The Denial of Death
E)Raymond Moody's Life After Life

Question 27

Pre- and post-tests of the attitudes of college students enrolled in a course in death and dying revealed:

A)less death anxiety at the end of the course than at the beginning
B)more death anxiety at the end of the course than at the beginning
C)no change in death anxiety at the end of the course
D)less anxiety at the beginning of the course than at the end
E)both b and d of the above

Question 28

The interdisciplinary study of death-related behavior is known as:

A)death etiology
B)thanatology
C)anthropometry
D)gerontology
E)geriatrics

Question 29

"Suicide physician" in Michigan who assisted with individual deaths in the 1990s was:

A)Michael DeBakey
B)Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
C)Earl Grollman
D)Jack Kevorkian
E)none of the above

Question 30

Which of the following is an example of an acute disease:

A)pneumonia
B)AIDS
C)cancer
D)arthritis
E)diabetes

Question 31

Television specials on death and dying first emerged in the:

A)1940s
B)1950s
C)1960s
D)1970s
E)1980s

Question 32

A major assumption of social exchange theory is that the profit motive governs social situations.

Question 33

Leading causes of death in 1900 were cardiovascular diseases and cancer.

Question 34

Two professional journals in death and dying today are:

A)Death Education and Death and Life
B)Alpha and Omega
C)Omega and Death Studies
D)Thanatology Studies and Death and Dying
E)Death and Dying and Death Studies

Question 35

A communicable disease (such as pneumonia) caused by a number of microorganisms including viruses, fungi, and bacteria are known as:

A)chronic diseases
B)acute diseases
C)slow death diseases
D)both a and c of the above
E)none of the above

Question 36

Jessica Mitford's The American Way of Death, published in 1963, played a critical role in changes in the funeral industry.

Question 37

Kubler-Ross' On Death and Dying, published in 1969, sparked a lot of interest in the topic of dying and death.

Question 38

Published in 1963, this book which was most critical of the funeral industry:

A)Jessica Mitford's The American Way of Death
B)Elizabeth Kubler-Ross' On Death and Dying
C)Herman Feifel's The Meaning of Death
D)Ernest Becker's The Denial of Death
E)none of the above

Question 39

Symbolic interactionism is an approach stressing the importance of interpretation of others' behavior.

Question 40

Death etiology refers to:

A)the causes of death
B)a contagious disease
C)a new type of AIDS
D)death with dignity
E)death during the winter months

Question 41

The ISAS paradigm for doing research in the social sciences, especially sociology, is the shorthand formula for :

A)structural functionalism
B)conflict perspective
C)social exchange
D)symbolic interactionism

Question 42

Structure?functional theory can be best described as a theory stressing:

A)roles and role expectations
B)the interaction of parts and the whole
C)the interaction of families in a symbolic manner
D)the independence of societal units

Question 43

Which theoretical framework would investigate the following research question: "Are adult children who care for their elderly parents more likely to receive a greater share of their parents' inheritance than those children who do not participate in the terminal care?"

A)social conflict
B)structural?functional
C)social exchange
D)symbolic interaction

Question 44

The long-living people on the Black Sea who typically live past the age of 100 are the :

A)Yanomamo
B)Kapauku Papuans
C)Abkhasians
D)Ik

Question 45

Which theoretical framework would investigate the following research question: "What are the rewards and costs involved in developing relationships which are inevitably ended by death?"

A)social conflict
B)structural?functional
C)social exchange
D)symbolic interaction

Question 46

Which theoretical framework would investigate the following research question: "What are the dysfunctional consequences of parental inheritance bequests for relationships between children?"

A)social conflict
B)structural?functional
C)social exchange
D)symbolic interaction

Question 47

The premise that reinforcement and mutual benefit are important in sustaining relations is associated with which theory or frame of reference?

A)social conflict
B)structural?functional
C)social exchange
D)symbolic interaction

Question 48

A sociological study of death is likely to include:

A)an effort to determine whether certain death?related behavior is moral or ethical.
B)a consideration of how biological organs function to produce death.
C)a consideration of how humans originally became subject to death.
D)a consideration of how social factors influence biological factors related death.

Question 49

Emphasis upon the organization of the funeral industry and its relationship with other social structures in a society would be important in which of the following conceptual frameworks?

A)social conflict
B)structural?functional
C)social exchange
D)symbolic interaction

Question 50

The sex ratio is :

A)the number of males per 100 females
B)the number of females per 100 males
C)the number of males per 1000 females
D)the number of females per 1000 males

Question 51

Conflict theory

A)emphasizes the undesirability of social change
B)represents an equilibrium theory
C)is associated with an analysis of disruption and change as being potentially useful
D)none of the above describes conflict theory

Question 52

Which theoretical framework would investigate the following research question: "How do funerals help to promote relationships between kinship groups (grandparents, aunts and uncles, cousins, etc.)?"

A)social conflict
B)structural?functional
C)social exchange
D)symbolic interaction

Question 53

The ISAS interpretation of death?related behavior emphasizes that

A)use of any given meaning for some item of behavior always has the same consequences.
B)any given behavior pattern always stems from the same biological condition.
C)all individuals experience death in the same way.
D)the meaning of death may change even though the biological aspects there of do not change.