The Sociology of Death: A Neglected Area of Research

women tend to select interaction roles with a social-emotional rather than a task emphasis.22 (4) Sacred values are discrete rather than interrelated. Where the sacred culture and the secular culture are in conflict the religiously identified personality finds it possible to retain and to reject individual values from within the value pattern that characterizes his particular religious system; i.e., the Catholic who retains the birth-control prohibition but rejects the father-dominant role. In the contemporary pluralistic society, the religious personality tends to be a segmental one involving a dichotomy of values-sacred and secular-either of which is capable of standing alone. 22Fred L. Strodtbeck and Richard D. Mann, "Sex Role Differentiation in Jury Deliberations," Sociometry, 19 (March 1956), pp. 3-11; Talcott Parsons, "Structure and Socialization of the Child," in T. Parsons and R. F. Bales, Family, Socialization, and Interaction Process (Glencoe, Illinois: The Free Press, 1955), pp. 100-101.