Death and Dying Chapter 1

approximately how much has the average life expectancy in the US increased since 1900s?

30 years

(p. 44-45) According to Ulrich Beck, a German scholar and observer of the "cosmopolitan society," the human condition in the present century

cannot be understood nationally or locally but only globally

themes of loss and death are heard in?

classical, american blues, and laments music.

what is an example of a homemade condolence?

comfort quilt

what term do social scientists use to describe the phenomenon of societies falling behind in dealing with new challenges resulting from rapid technological and social change?

cultural lag

brief standardized printed statements following the death of an average citizen are called?

death notices

The traditional hawaiian culture mele kanikau may have been carefully composed or spontaneous and used ..... ?

during the funeral procession

Avoiding words like dead or dying instead using phrases in which loved ones "pass away" the deceased is "laid to rest" and the corpse is "remains" is an example of ?

euphemisms

What are the two leading causes of death in the US?

heart disease and cancer

In 1963, The university of Minnesota,

held the first formal course in death education.

Hannelore Wass observes that the study of death and dying will?

help individuals and societyies transcend self interest in favor of concern for others

in reviewing the status of research and practice in thanatology, Herman Feifel points out that the ....?

human mind operates on various levels of reality or finite provinces of meaning

what has been called the "oil of society?"

humor

Even when curative treatments have ended, the effort to control circumstances around death and dying so that it comes out "right" is termed?

managed death

a feature length story on the death of someone famous is an....

obituary

deaths of the famous are likely to be announced on the newspapers from page as well as via feature length....

obituaties

which of the following factors does not affect our familiarity with death? -life expectancy -georgraphic mobility -medical technology -political decision making

political decision making

Which of the following BEST describes a "cosmopolitan" society?

B. Ideas and practices from other historical periods and cultures are valued and examined.

The modern scientific approach to the study of death is usually traced to a symposium organized in 1956 by ?

Herman Feifel

______________ has the longest life expectancy of countries worldwide

Japan

thanatos, from greek mythology is generally understood as a response to the ?

Personification of Death

according to george gerbner, the "mean world syndrome" describes depictions of death in the mass media as embedded in a structure of violence that conveys?

a heightened sense of danger

depictions of death in the mass media, in which the symbolic use of death contributes to an "irrational dread of dying and thus to a diminished vitality and self-direction in life" is referred to as ?

a mean world syndrome

In Gerbner's "mean world syndrome," the symbolic use of death contributes to?

an irrational dread of dying diminished vitality diminished self direction in life

Which of the following BEST describes the phrase "medical technology that seems to one person a godsend, extending life, may seem to another a curse?"

D. The effect of new technology involves personal and social consequences and trade-offs.

epidemiologic transition is BEST defied as the

shift in disease patterns characterized by a redistribution of deaths from the young to the old.

according to kastenbaum, what is defined as "the study of life with death left in?"

thanatology

research into death anxiety has been characterized by kastenbaum as?

thanatology's own assembly line

what is the largest ongoing community arts project in america?

the AIDS memorial quilt

Which of the following is NOT cited in the text as a journal in the field of death and dying? -illness, crisis, and loss? -the carnegie journal of death -mortality -death studies

the carnegie journal of death

What do some commentators call the new "porn star" of popular culture?

the corpse

IN his emphasis relevant to terror management theory, Ernest Becker addressed....

the need to control our basic anxiety and to deny the terror of death

media experts say that the "reality violence" on tv news began with coverage of the ..... ?

vietnam war