Endings
A Sociology of Death and Dying
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 11063315 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Nan Chico (corresponding author), Nan Paulsen Chico |
| Year | 1991 |
| Volume | 19 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 109 |
| Publication date | 1991-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | REVIEW |
| Review of | Endings: A Sociology of Death and Dying, Michael C Kearl, 1989 |
| Venue | Teaching Sociology (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0092-055X • E-ISSN: 1939-862X |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.2307/1317588 |
| OpenAlex | W2035326049 |
| Language | EN |
Arguing that death is the central force shaping our social life and order, Michael Kearl draws on a wide variety of disciplines to provide a broad sociological perspective on the interrelationships of life and death. He shows 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 analyses traditional topics, including ageing, suicide, grief, and medical ethics. He also examines current issues such as the impact of the AIDS epidemic on social trust, governments' use of death in symbolism, the business of death and dying, the political economy of doomsday weaponry, and death in popular culture
Epistemology · Social science · Sociology · Grief, Bereavement, and Mental Health · Philosophy
Cemetery locus as a mechanism of socio-cultural identity
Loss, Bereavement and Creativity
Late' Capital
A Course on Techniques for Living With Death and Dying at Alvernia College
Death and Dying, Sociology of
A Social History of Dying
The Darker Side of Travel
Criminality in Spaces of Death
Beyond Terror and Denial
Conceptualizations of Death in a Commercial Context
The Postmodernization of Death and Dying
Mortality and morality
The practice of medical technology
Last Rights? Funerals, Poverty and Social Exclusion
Modern Death
The Changing Profile of Social Death
Dying Well
Formas tumulares e processos sociais nos cemitérios brasileiros
Necropenology
‘For the last time’
Gravesites and websites
Rising from the dead
On the contingency of death
When Hospice Fails
Surviving Death-Anxieties in Liquid Modern Times
Probabilistic Thinking and Death Anxiety
Should Incurable Patients Be Allowed to Die
Performing Peace
Grave Doubts
Why different countries manage death differently
The Forgotten Lives of Sociology of Death
Death and the search for meaning
We do it to keep him alive’
Liquid immortality – an interview with Zygmunt Bauman
Death, after-death and the human in the Internet era
Exploring the Afterlife
Where There’s a Will There’s a Woman’
The end of death in late modernity
Queer Death Studies
The choir invisible
Media Coverage of Medical Decision Making at the End of Life
Negotiating life for the dying
Interpretation and timing of death
The Good Funeral
The dismal trade as culture industry
Death and Afterlife in Modern France
Spectacular Death”—Proposing a New Fifth Phase to Philippe Ariès’s Admirable History of Death
Denial of impending death
Reflections on the Turn to Ageism in Contemporary Cultural Discourse
Living life or denying death? Towards an understanding of the bucket list
Introduction to the Special Issue on the Death, Afterlife, and Immortality of Bodies and Data
Handling the stigma of handling the dead
Ethical capital
Modernity, Self-Identity and the Sequestration of Death
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |