Endings : a sociology of death and dying / Michael C. Kearl.
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TextSeries: OUP E-BooksPublication details: New York : Oxford University Press, 1989.Description: 1 online resource (xix, 521 pages) : illustrations, portraitsContent type: - text
- computer
- online resource
- 1601296282
- 9781601296283
- 9780199725885
- 0199725888
- 9780195045154
- 0195045157
- 128043967X
- 9781280439674
- 9786610439676
- 6610439672
- Death -- Social aspects
- Death -- Cross-cultural studies
- Life cycle, Human -- Social aspects
- Death -- Psychological aspects
- Death
- Attitude to Death
- Death
- Mort -- Aspect social
- Mort -- Études transculturelles
- Étapes de la vie -- Aspect social
- Mort -- Aspect psychologique
- Mort
- deaths
- SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Death & Dying
- FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS -- Death, Grief, Bereavement
- Death
- Death -- Social aspects
- Life cycle, Human -- Social aspects
- Kulturvergleich
- Lebenslauf
- Soziologie
- Sterben
- Tod
- Dood
- Sociale aspecten
- Śmierć -- antropologia społeczna
- Śmierć -- antropologia społeczna -- Stany Zjednoczone
- Śmierć -- socjologia
- Śmierć -- socjologia -- Stany Zjednoczone
- Humans Death
- 306/.9 22
- HQ1073 .K43 1989eb
- BF 789.D4
- 71.50
- MS 6300
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
1. Introduction: Death's Revelations of Life; 2. What Death Means: Death in Cross-Cultural and Historical Perspective; 3. Death's Impacts on Society; 4. How We Die: The Social Stratification of Death; 5. Death and Religion; 6. Secular Perspectives on Death; 7. Death and Work; 8. The Politics of Death; 9. Death and the Military Experience; 10. Death in Popular Culture; 11. Death and the Medical System; 12. Death and the Individual: The Social Psychology of Dying and Surviving; Index.
Arguing that death is the central force shaping our social life and order, the author draws on a wide variety of disciplines to provide a broad sociological perspective on the interrelationships of life and death.
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