The Social Construction of Death Interdisciplinary Perspectives

• Tác giả chính: Van Brussel, Leen (auth)
• Tác giả khác: Carpentier, Nico (auth)
• Định dạng: Điện tử Chương của sách
• Ngôn ngữ: Tiếng Anh
• Được phát hành: Basingstoke Springer Nature 2014
• Những chủ đề: Cultural studies; Media studies; Sociology; Sociology: death & dying; social constructivist research; death; social constructionist research; thanatology
• Truy cập trực tuyến: DOAB: description of the publication

Tóm tắt

Thanatological research in the social sciences and the humanities acknowledges that death is culturally and socially embedded. The idea of the social construction of death has been taken on board, albeit slowly, by the social and cultural study of death, but explicit reflections on the underlying ontologies and epistemologies of this paradigm remain scarce. This edited volume aims to strengthen the paradigmatic reflections about the social construction of death in thanatology and contribute to a theoretical reinforcement of the field. It also puts death and dying more explicitly on the agenda of social constructionist and social constructivist research in general, arguing that the study of death is important for these approaches. The thirteen contributions gathered in this volume, written by well-established scholars from a variety of disciplines (including sociology, anthropology, media and cultural studies, and political sciences), theorise the social construction of death and dying, and deploy it to analyse a wide variety of meaning-making practices in societal fields such as ethics, politics, media, medicine and family.

Mô tả vật lý

1 electronic resource (296 p.)

số ISBN

OAPEN_512393
9781137391926;9781137391919

Truy cập

Open Access