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oapen-20.500.12657-332822024-01-08T14:08:02Z The Social Construction of Death Van Brussel, Leen Carpentier, Nico social constructivist research death social constructionist research thanatology bic Book Industry Communication::J Society & social sciences::JF Society & culture: general::JFC Cultural studies bic Book Industry Communication::J Society & social sciences::JF Society & culture: general::JFD Media studies bic Book Industry Communication::J Society & social sciences::JH Sociology & anthropology::JHB Sociology bic Book Industry Communication::J Society & social sciences::JH Sociology & anthropology::JHB Sociology::JHBZ Sociology: death & dying Thanatological research in the social sciences and the humanities acknowledges that death is culturally and socially embedded. The idea of the social construction of death has been taken on board, albeit slowly, by the social and cultural study of death, but explicit reflections on the underlying ontologies and epistemologies of this paradigm remain scarce. This edited volume aims to strengthen the paradigmatic reflections about the social construction of death in thanatology and contribute to a theoretical reinforcement of the field. It also puts death and dying more explicitly on the agenda of social constructionist and social constructivist research in general, arguing that the study of death is important for these approaches. The thirteen contributions gathered in this volume, written by well-established scholars from a variety of disciplines (including sociology, anthropology, media and cultural studies, and political sciences), theorise the social construction of death and dying, and deploy it to analyse a wide variety of meaning-making practices in societal fields such as ethics, politics, media, medicine and family. 2014-12-31 23:55:55 2020-03-18 13:36:15 2020-04-01T14:38:32Z 2020-04-01T14:38:32Z 2014 book 512393 OCN: 890435068 9781137391926;9781137391919 http://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/33282 eng Springer Nature Palgrave Macmillan 10.26530/OAPEN_512393 10.26530/OAPEN_512393 6c6992af-b843-4f46-859c-f6e9998e40d5 077b1fac-b9bc-4f92-bd11-8d3b6e151616 9781137391926;9781137391919 Palgrave Macmillan 296 Basingstoke open access
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Thanatological research in the social sciences and the humanities acknowledges that death is culturally and socially embedded. The idea of the social construction of death has been taken on board, albeit slowly, by the social and cultural study of death, but explicit reflections on the underlying ontologies and epistemologies of this paradigm remain scarce. This edited volume aims to strengthen the paradigmatic reflections about the social construction of death in thanatology and contribute to a theoretical reinforcement of the field. It also puts death and dying more explicitly on the agenda of social constructionist and social constructivist research in general, arguing that the study of death is important for these approaches. The thirteen contributions gathered in this volume, written by well-established scholars from a variety of disciplines (including sociology, anthropology, media and cultural studies, and political sciences), theorise the social construction of death and dying, and deploy it to analyse a wide variety of meaning-making practices in societal fields such as ethics, politics, media, medicine and family.
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