Death and Society in Twentieth Century America
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 13630643 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Robert Fulton (University of Minnesota), Robert L Fulton (University of Minnesota System, corresponding author), Greg Owen (Wilder Research Center, St. Paul, Minnesota) |
| Year | 1988 |
| Volume | 18 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 379-395 |
| Publication date | 1988-06-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | OMEGA - Journal of Death and Dying (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0030-2228 • E-ISSN: 1541-3764 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.2190/6kym-f9eb-vy1j-fqwe |
| OpenAlex | W2012178603 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 19 |
| References cited | 15 |
American attitudes and responses toward death have changed markedly during the twentieth century. This transformation is illustrated through an examination of two age groups: those born prior to the advent of the atomic bomb, and those born into the nuclear age. Each cohort contended with very different patterns of environment and socio-historical experiences, and had differential life expectancies as well. Images of death have changed significantly over this time-span, partially because of the pervasive influence of television and the overall growth in the importance of media. Death's presence in the media is simultaneously everywhere and nowhere; it is at once illusively fantastical and frighteningly real. Today's youth face the threat of a sudden anonymous death that is counterpoised against a more immediate experience with death that often is either distorted or denied. It is within this context that America's youth express their fears and frustrations in music, drugs, violence, and vicarious death experiences. The research agenda should include investigation of such phenomena as the rising interest in spirituality and the increase in suicide among adolescents as possible symptoms of despair in an impersonal and threatened world
Context (archaeology · Criminology · Sociology · Spirituality · Death Anxiety and Social Exclusion · Demography · Gender Studies · Grief, Bereavement, and Mental Health · History · Medicine · Psychology · Religion, Spirituality, and Psychology
From denial toward integration of death in Western culture
The big, bad… grim
Murder Ballads
Publication Trends in Thanatology
A Conversation with Robert Fulton
The more things change
Desenvolvimento da Tanatologia
Linguistic and Thematic Attributes of German Pop Songs Used at Funerals
This is the End
Age Differences in Levels of Overt and Covert Death Anxiety
Sensational! Violent! Popular! Death in American Movies
Effects of Death Education on Conscious and Unconscious Death Anxiety
A Room Full of Chairs around His Bed”
Similarity of Perceptions of Bereavement Experiences between Widows and Professionals
The Media's Influence on College Students' Views of Death
Bathing the Dead, the Dirty Work
What is the Truth of Death and Dying? Reflections on Fulton, Foucault, and Finitude
Diversity in Death
When Death Took a Holiday
The living and the dead
Death
The History of American Funeral Directing
Death and Social Structure †
Celebrations of Death
Cultural Indicators
Death at a Distance
Gift of Life
Soviet children and the threat of nuclear war
The International Journal of Psychoanalysis
Business Temporal Norms and Bereavement Behavior
Reader in Urban Sociology
Death in American Society - a Brief Working Paper
American High School Seniors View the Military
Advanced Medical Technology-Social and Ethical Implications
| Unique citing works | 19 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,54 |
| Citation span | 1991 - 2025 (35) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 19 |