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Author: Michael C. Kearl Publisher: Oxford University Press ISBN: 0199725888 Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 542
Book Description
Arguing that death is the central force shaping our social life and order, Michael Kearl draws on anthropology, religion, politics, philosophy, the natural sciences, economics, and psychology to provide a broad sociological perspective on the interrelationships of life and death, showing how death contributes to social change and how the meanings of death are generated to serve social functions. Working from a social as well as a psychological perspective, Kearl analyzes traditional topics, including aging, suicide, grief, and medical ethics while also examining current issues such as the impact of the AIDS epidemic on social trust, governments' use of death symbolism, the business of death and dying, the political economy of doomsday weaponry, and death in popular culture. Incisive and original, this book maps the separate contributions of various social institutions to American attitudes toward death, observing the influence of each upon the broader cultural outlook on life.
Author: Michael C. Kearl Publisher: Oxford University Press ISBN: 0199725888 Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 542
Book Description
Arguing that death is the central force shaping our social life and order, Michael Kearl draws on anthropology, religion, politics, philosophy, the natural sciences, economics, and psychology to provide a broad sociological perspective on the interrelationships of life and death, showing how death contributes to social change and how the meanings of death are generated to serve social functions. Working from a social as well as a psychological perspective, Kearl analyzes traditional topics, including aging, suicide, grief, and medical ethics while also examining current issues such as the impact of the AIDS epidemic on social trust, governments' use of death symbolism, the business of death and dying, the political economy of doomsday weaponry, and death in popular culture. Incisive and original, this book maps the separate contributions of various social institutions to American attitudes toward death, observing the influence of each upon the broader cultural outlook on life.
Author: Jesse D. Peterson Publisher: Policy Press ISBN: 1529230160 Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 211
Book Description
Death studies typically focus on the death of humans, overlooking the wider factors involved in social and natural processes around death. This edited volume provides an alternative focus for death studies by looking beyond human death, to reveal the complex interconnections among human and more than human creatures, entities and environments. Bringing together a diverse range of international scholars, the book sheds light on topics which have previously remained at the margins of contemporary death studies and death care cultures. Organised around three themes – Knowledge and Mediation, Care and Remembrance, and Agency and Power – this book pushes the boundaries of death studies to explore death and dying from beyond the perspective of a nature/culture binary.
Author: Tora Holmberg Publisher: Springer ISBN: 3030114856 Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 293
Book Description
This book investigates death as part of contemporary everyday experience and practices. Through a cultural sociological lens, it studies death as it remains constantly at the edge of our consciousness, shaping the ways in which we move through social reality. As such, Death Matters is a significant contribution to death studies, going beyond traditional parameters of the field by addressing the cultural omnipresence of death. The contributions analyse several death-related meaning-making processes, arguing that meanings emerging from culturally shared narratives, social institutions, and material conditions, are just as important as ’death practices’ in understanding the role of death in society. Drawing on the related themes of places of absence and presence, disease and bodies, and persons and non-persons, the authors explore a variety of areas of social life, from haunting to celebrity deaths, to move the notion of death from the margins of social reality to ongoing everyday life. This far-reaching collection will be of use to scholars and students across death studies, sociology, anthropology, philosophy, culture, media and communication studies.
Author: Leen Van Brussel Publisher: Springer ISBN: 113739191X Category : Performing Arts Languages : en Pages : 278
Book Description
Chapter 12 of this book is open access under a CC BY license. Well-established scholars from a variety of disciplines - including sociology, anthropology, media and cultural studies, and political sciences – use the social construction of death and dying to analyse a wide variety of meaning-making practices in societal fields such as ethics, politics, media, medicine and family.
Author: Peter C. Jupp Publisher: Springer ISBN: 1349243035 Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 239
Book Description
This book utilises a dynamic analysis of mortality to acknowledge shifts of emphasis in cultural and religious traditions. A central concern is the diversity of representations of death to be found within the varying cultural, religious, medical and legal systems of contemporary western societies. Since the construction of death mores has social implications, a major element of the book is an examination of the way in which groups and individuals employ specific representations of mortality in order to generate meaning and purpose for life and death.
Author: Michael R. Leming Publisher: Harcourt Brace ISBN: Category : Bereavement Languages : en Pages : 568
Book Description
A multidisciplinary approach to a range of topics in social thanatology for undergraduate students, and students in professional courses in medicine, nursing, mortuary science, and pastoral counseling. Covers the social meaning of dying and death, understanding death attitudes, developmental perspectives on death, religion and attitudes, and the dying process. This third edition includes new material, boxed inserts illustrating issues in the text, chapter summaries, and discussion questions. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Author: Michael C. Kearl
Author: Renée Claire Fox
Author: Michael C. Kearl
Author: Renée Claire Fox
Author: Jesse D. Peterson
Author: Tora Holmberg
Author: Herman Feifel
Author: Leen Van Brussel
Author: Peter C. Jupp
Author: Kathy Charmaz
Author: Michael R. Leming