Status After Death
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 5248570 |
|---|---|
| Authors | William M Kephart (corresponding author) |
| Year | 1950 |
| Volume | 15 |
| Issue | 5 |
| Pages | 635 |
| Publication date | 1950-10-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | American Sociological Review (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0003-1224 • E-ISSN: 1939-8271 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/2086917 |
| OpenAlex | W2315826053 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 28 |
BEHAVIORAL differences as a reflection of social class have been reported for a variety of cultural phenomena. Class patterns, for example, have recently been described in connection with drinking habits,' sexual behavior,2 mate selection, 3 family ritual,4 etc. The purpose of this paper is to present findings which suggest that observable differences in class behavior exist after death; that is, with reference to funeral and burial customs and in practices associated with bereavement. So far as the writer is aware, the present attempt is the first in this particular cultural sphere, and it is hoped that the study will have value in extending the range of classstructure analysis. It is the writer's opinion, incidentally, that for sociologists interested in the general field of folkways, mores, and social origins, the customs and precedents which exist in the category of after death present virtually an untapped source of information. Before discussing the methodological difficulties involved in the present study, a few words are in order with respect to both the historical and the current picture of the field under consideration
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Conceptualizations of Death in a Commercial Context
The Sociology of Death
Up From The Grave
Whatever happened to social class? An examination of the neglect of working class cultures in the sociology of death
Three ways to arrange a funeral
Are we a ‘death-denying’ society? A sociological review
Social Networks and Mourning
The Widowhood Effect
Death Shall have no Dominion
The Management of Grief
Hidden in plain sight
The Good Funeral
Family and funerals
The Sociology of Death and Dying
Las cosas de los muertos
The Cemetery as an Evolving Cultural Landscape
Funeraria nahua, una primera aproximación
Death and Social Structure
The Yuma Territorial Prison Cemetery
Graves of Unknowns in Gardens of Stone
The Cost of Dying
Death, working-class culture and social distinction
Status, Sentimentality and Structuration
Spatial Seriation, Vectors of Change, and Multicentered Modeling of Cultural Transformations among San Diego's Historical Gravestones
Patterns of Conception, Natality, and Mortality from Midwestern Cemeteries
Graves, gifts, and the bereaved consumer
When People Died
| Unique citing works | 28 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,41 |
| Citation span | 1958 - 2025 (68) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 27 |