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Constructing death : the sociology of dying and bereavement / Clive Seale.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Cambridge, England ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1998.Description: 1 online resource (x, 236 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 051100267X
  • 9780511002670
  • 0511583427
  • 9780511583421
Subject(s): Additional physical formats: Print version:: Constructing death.DDC classification:
  • 306.9 21
LOC classification:
  • HQ1073 .S4 1998eb
NLM classification:
  • 2018 I-645
  • HQ 1073
Other classification:
  • 71.59
  • MS 6300
Online resources:
Contents:
pt. I. Social and material worlds. 1. Experiencing and representing the body. 2. Death, embodiment and social structure. 3. The social aspect of death -- pt. II. Representing death. 4. Medicine, modernity and the risks of life. 5. The revival of death awareness. 6. Reporting death -- pt. III. Experiencing death. 7. Falling from culture. 8. Awareness and control of dying. 9. Grief and resurrective practices.
Summary: A basic motivation for social and cultural life is the problem of death. By analysing the experiences of dying and bereaved people, as well as institutional responses to death, Clive Seale shows its importance for understanding the place of embodiment in social life. He draws on a comprehensive review of sociological, anthropological and historical studies, including his own research, to demonstrate the great variability that exists in human social constructions for managing mortality. Far from living in a 'death denying' society, dying and bereaved people in contemporary culture are often able to assert membership of an imagined community, through the narrative reconstruction of personal biography, drawing on a variety of cultural scripts emanating from medicine, psychology, the media and other sources. These insights are used to argue that the maintenance of the human social bond in the face of death is a continual resurrective practice, permeating everyday life.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 212-231) and index.

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A basic motivation for social and cultural life is the problem of death. By analysing the experiences of dying and bereaved people, as well as institutional responses to death, Clive Seale shows its importance for understanding the place of embodiment in social life. He draws on a comprehensive review of sociological, anthropological and historical studies, including his own research, to demonstrate the great variability that exists in human social constructions for managing mortality. Far from living in a 'death denying' society, dying and bereaved people in contemporary culture are often able to assert membership of an imagined community, through the narrative reconstruction of personal biography, drawing on a variety of cultural scripts emanating from medicine, psychology, the media and other sources. These insights are used to argue that the maintenance of the human social bond in the face of death is a continual resurrective practice, permeating everyday life.

pt. I. Social and material worlds. 1. Experiencing and representing the body. 2. Death, embodiment and social structure. 3. The social aspect of death -- pt. II. Representing death. 4. Medicine, modernity and the risks of life. 5. The revival of death awareness. 6. Reporting death -- pt. III. Experiencing death. 7. Falling from culture. 8. Awareness and control of dying. 9. Grief and resurrective practices.

English.

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