Deck 1: Studying Dying, Death, and Bereavement

Question 1

Sociology is a multiparadigm science.

Answer 1

True

Question 2

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

Answer 2

True

Question 3

Conflict theory is concerned with explaining the stability of society.

Answer 3

False

Question 4

A program for the elderly called Road Scholar does not allow the topic of dying and death to be presented.

Question 5

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

Question 6

A text published in 1959 for thanatology was an anthology by psychologist Herman Feifel titled The Meaning of Death.

Question 7

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

Question 8

The "suicide doctor" in Michigan in the late 20th century was Dr.Jack Kevorkian.

Question 9

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

Question 10

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

Question 11

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

Question 12

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

Question 13

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

Question 14

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

Question 15

Gerontophobia is the fear of dying of a debilitating disease.

Question 16

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

Question 17

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

Question 18

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

Question 19

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

Question 20

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

Question 21

The phenomenology approach to dying and death studies "the thing" itself.

Question 22

A longitudinal study is a study done at one point in time.

Question 23

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

Question 24

Women have a higher morbidity rate than men.

Question 25

A popular book about a professor dying of ALS in the 1990s is titled Tuesdays with Morrie and was written by Mitch Albom.

Question 26

Smoking accounts for approximately 5 percent of all deaths globally each year.

Question 27

Fictive kin refers to terms for individuals who are not related via kinship.

Question 28

A ban was imposed on public smoking in the United Kingdom in 2007.

Question 29

In modern Western countries life expectancy is longer for women than for men.

Question 30

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

Question 31

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

Question 32

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

Question 33

Cigarette smoking in movies today is becoming more popular.

Question 34

Smoking kills approximately 434,000 Americans each year.

Question 35

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

Question 36

Terror management theory (TMT)suggests that people adhere to cultural worldviews and beliefs in order to suppress death and morality-related thoughts.

Question 37

An existentialist approach looks at dying and death from an anthropological perspective.

Question 38

Infant mortality rates in the United States are the lowest of all postindustrial countries in the world today.

Question 39

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

Question 40

The psychological approach looks at dying from a developmental perspective.

Question 41

The bestselling book on death and dying published in 1969 is

A)Jessica Mitford's The American Way of Death.
B)Elizabeth Kubler-Ross's 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 42

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 43

Violence,including death,is highly revealed on television today.

Question 44

The "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 45

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

A)Jessica Mitford's The American Way of Death
B)Elizabeth Kubler-Ross's 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 46

ISAS is a shorthand presentation of structural functionalism.

Question 47

Courses on death and dying began to flourish in the United States in the

A)1930s.
B)1950s.
C)1970s.
D)1990s.
E)2010s.

Question 48

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 49

The primary cause of death in the United States today is

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

Question 50

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 51

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 urban areas and returning to the farm where death is a daily event
D)All of the above were cited.

Question 52

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

A)Pneumonia
B)AIDS
C)Cancer
D)Arthritis
E)Diabetes

Question 53

A latent function of a funeral is that a funeral is a family reunion.

Question 54

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 do not change.

Question 55

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 56

The interdisciplinary study of death-related behavior is known as

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

Question 57

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

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

Question 58

Television specials on death and dying first emerged in the

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

Question 59

A chronic disease is one which typically kills the patient within a few days of coming down with the disease.

Question 60

Death and dying is on the "approval" list" of all US state education departments and is offered in nearly state regularly.

Question 61

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)does none of the above.

Question 62

Regarding death and dying,cultural anthropologists study

A)rituals through which individuals deal with death and hence celebrate life.
B)the biological aspects of dying.
C)human remains and try to reconstruct the behavior.
D)none of the above.

Question 63

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 children who do not participate in the terminal care?"

A)Social conflict
B)Structural?functional
C)Social exchange
D)Symbolic interaction

Question 64

The sex ratio is the number of

A)males per 100 females.
B)females per 100 males.
C)males per 1,000 females.
D)females per 1,000 males.

Question 65

Regarding death anxiety and death education,thanatologists

A)agree that death education relieves death anxiety.
B)agree that death education does not relieve death anxiety.
C)cannot agree on whether or not death education relieves death anxiety.

Question 66

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

A)Social conflict
B)Structural?functional
C)Social exchange
D)Symbolic interaction

Question 67

Physician-assisted suicide is now legal in the US states of:

A)South Carolina and Alabama
B)Idaho and North Dakota
C)Oregon and Washington
D)New York and New Jersey

Question 68

Morbidity rates for women in the United States

A)are higher than for men.
B)are lower than for men.
C)are no different than for men.
D)cannot be determined.

Question 69

A popular 1990s book about a professor dying of ALS and written by his former student is titled

A)Fridays with Fred.
B)Tuesdays with Morrie.
C)Saturdays with Sarah.
D)Dying of ALS.

Question 70

Smoking kills approximately ______ Americans each year.

A)50,000
B)200,000
C)450,000
D)750,000

Question 71

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 72

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

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

Question 73

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 74

Cigarette smoking in movies is becoming

A)more popular today.
B)less popular today.
C)about as popular as in the 1950s.
D)less trendy.

Question 75

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

A)Social conflict
B)Structural?functional
C)Social exchange
D)Symbolic interaction

Question 76

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 77

Structural?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.