Social Death: Questioning the Life-Death Boundary

ISBN-13: 9780367075712 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 106 str.

Jana Kralova; Tony Walter

Opis

Social death occurs when the social existence of a person or group ceases, and relates to social exclusion, social capital, social networks, social roles and social identity. However, this is the first volume to unite theorising about the concept, providing conceptual clarity rooted in empirical data. Contributors discuss 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.

Spis treści

Foreword  1. What is social death?  2. Agency in the context of social death: dying alone at home  3. Social death and the moral identity of the fourth age  4. Social death in end-of-life care policy  5. Post-mortem social death – exploring the absence of the deceased  6. To resist or to embrace social death? Photographs of couples on Romanian gravestones  7. (Social) Death is not the end: resisting social exclusion due to suicide  8. The agency of dead musicians