Deck 1: Studying Dying Death and Bereavement

Question 1

Two professional journals of 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.

Answer 1

C

Question 2

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

Answer 2

B

Question 3

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 to death.

Answer 3

D

Question 4

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 5

The primary cause of death in the United States today is

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

Question 6

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)agree that there has been a decrease in fear and less concern about dying due to an increase in education.
D)agree that death education increases death anxiety

Question 7

Death etiology refers to

A)the causes of death.
B)a contagious disease.
C)a new type of AIDS.
D)death with dignity.

Question 8

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 9

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.

Question 10

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 11

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 12

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 13

The interdisciplinary study of death-related behavior is known as

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

Question 14

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

Question 15

Television specials on death and dying first emerged in the

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

Question 16

Most people dying in the United States today die

A)at home.
B)on the highways.
C)in a hospital or a nursing home.
D)on city streets.

Question 17

The best-selling 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.

Question 18

Conflict theory

A)emphasizes the undesirability of social change.
B)represents an equilibrium theory.
C)is focused on competition, conflict, and dissension resulting from individuals and/or groups competing for limited societal resources.
D)is focused on collaboration, agreement, and mutual consent resulting from individuals and/or groups working together for societal resources.

Question 19

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

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

Question 20

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 21

Each act of dying has three interconnected characteristics: shared, symboled, and situated. How does this relate to the statement that more dies than a biological body?

Question 22

Discuss how terror management theory might help individuals adjust to death situations.

Question 23

How might death education help an individual deal with dying and death?

Question 24

Why is death a normal aspect of society?

Question 25

Contrast the causes of death in the United States today with those in 1900. Why have the main causes of death shifted since the beginning of the 20th century?

Question 26

Why do you think women have a higher morbidity rate than men, yet a lower mortality rate?

Question 27

A psychological approach to dying looks at dying from

A)a cognitive perspective.
B)a life stages perspective.
C)a biological perspective.
D)a behavior perspective.

Question 28

Cite examples to show how mass media increased the emphasis on death and dying in the United States today.

Question 29

Discuss a television program or movie you have seen recently that included the topic of dying and death. In what way did it deal with the topic?

Question 30

How does a philosophical approach to dying and death differ from a biological approach?

Question 31

Regarding death and dying, cultural anthropologists study

A)rituals through which individuals deal with death and emotional responses in different cultures.
B)the biological aspects of dying.
C)human remains and try to reconstruct the behavior.
D)apply their knowledge of biology, science, and culture to the legal process.

Question 32

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

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

Question 33

Discuss recent bans on smoking in public places in the UK and the United States. Do you favor these bans?

Question 34

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 35

Smoking kills approximately ______ people worldwide per year.

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