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Social Death: Questioning the Life-Death Boundary

by Jana Králová
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Book cover type: Hardcover
  • ISBN13: 9781138205307
  • Binding: Hardcover
  • Subject: N/A
  • Publisher: Taylor & Francis
  • Publisher Imprint: Routledge
  • Publication Date:
  • Pages: 118
  • Original Price: GBP 150.0
  • Language: English
  • Edition: N/A
  • Item Weight: 362 grams
  • BISAC Subject(s): Sociology / General

Social death occurs when the social existence of a person or group ceases. With an individual, it can occur before or after physical death. Scholars in a wide range of disciplines have applied the concept to very diverse issues - including genocide, slavery, dementia, hospitalisation, and bereavement. Social death relates to social exclusion, social capital, social networks, social roles and social identity, but its theorising is not united - scholars in one field are often unaware of its use in other fields.

This is the first book to bring a range of perspectives together in a pioneering effort to bring to the field conceptual clarity rooted in empirical data. Preceded by an original theoretical discussion of the concept of social death, contributions from the UK, Romania, Sweden, and Israel analyse the fourth age, end of life policies, dying alone at home, suicide, photographs on gravestones, bereavement, and the agency of dead musicians. This book was originally published as a special issue of Contemporary Social Science.

Jana Králová trained in social work in the Czech Republic and is currently completing a sociology Ph.D. on social death at the Centre for Death and Society, Department of Social and Policy Sciences, University of Bath, UK.

Tony Walter is Honorary Professor of Death Studies at the University of Bath, UK. A sociologist, he has written widely on death in society.

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