Social Death

Questioning the life-death boundary
Herausgeber: Králová, Jana; Walter, Tony

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Produktbeschreibung

Social death occurs when the social existence of a person or group ceases, and relates to social exclusion, social capital, social networks, social roles and social identity. However, this is the first volume to unite theorising about the concept, providing conceptual clarity rooted in empirical data. Contributors discuss the fourth age, end of life policies, dying alone at home, suicide, photographs on gravestones, bereavement, and the agency of dead musicians. This book was originally published as a special issue of Contemporary Social Science.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales)
• Seitenzahl: 106
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. Oktober 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 246mm x 174mm x 6mm
• Gewicht: 209g
• ISBN-13: 9780367075712
• ISBN-10: 0367075717
• Artikelnr.: 57003961

Autorenporträt

Jana Králová trained in social work in the Czech Republic and is currently completing a sociology Ph.D. on social death at the Centre for Death and Society, Department of Social and Policy Sciences, University of Bath, UK. Tony Walter is Honorary Professor of Death Studies at the University of Bath, UK. A sociologist, he has written widely on death in society.

Inhaltsangabe

Foreword 1. What is social death? 2. Agency in the context of social death:
dying alone at home 3. Social death and the moral identity of the fourth
age 4. Social death in end-of-life care policy 5. Post-mortem social death
- exploring the absence of the deceased 6. To resist or to embrace social
death? Photographs of couples on Romanian gravestones 7. (Social) Death is
not the end: resisting social exclusion due to suicide 8. The agency of
dead musicians