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1 online resource (405 pages) |
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Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Table of Contents; List of Editors and Contributors; Foreword; Preface; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Why a Sociology of Death, Grief, and Bereavement?; Growing Up with Death, Grief, and Bereavement; The Dying Process: Living with Dying; Facing Our Own Death; The Lesson of Death; Death, Grief, and Bereavement; The Plan of the Book; References; Part One Sociological Foundations; 1 Emile Durkheim; Introduction; Durkheim's Approach to Sociology; Durkheim's Study of Suicide; Anomic Suicide; Egoistic Suicide; Altruistic Suicide |
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Fatalistic SuicideCriticisms of Durkheim's Suicide; Durkheim and Death Ritual; Conclusion; Notes; References; 2 Max Weber; Introduction; Rationalization; Bureaucracy; Traditional Understandings of Death, Grief, and Bereavement; Challenges to Traditional Understandings of Death, Grief, and Bereavement; Scientific, Rational Understandings of Death, Grief, and Bereavement; Bureaucratized Approaches to Death, Grief, and Bereavement; Weber's Biography: Depression and Dystopia; Conclusion; References; 3 Marxism; Introduction; Marx the Sociologist; Dialectical Materialism |
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Marx Was Right: The PositivesMarx Was Wrong: The Negatives; Developments beyond Marx; Marxist Thought as Applied to Death, Grief, and Bereavement; Conclusion; References; 4 George Herbert Mead; Introduction; The Sociological Approach of George Herbert Mead; Dying, Death and George Herbert Mead; Symbols of Dying and Death; Dying, Death, and Meaning; The Social Nature of Dying; Symbols of Dying and Death; Grief and Bereavement from an Interactionist Perspective; Recreating Social Life; Conclusion; References; 5 Erving Goffman; Introduction; The Sociological Approach of Erving Goffman |
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The Sociology of Dying and Death of Erving GoffmanDying in Total Institutions; Presentation of Self with Death; Biographical Disruption; Stigma; Frame Analysis; Setting the Stage; Conclusion; References; 6 Women's Contribution to Classical Sociology; Introduction; Sociopolitical Background; Harriet Martineau (1802-1876); Themes in Martineau's Work; Societal Progress, Oppression, and Social Construction; Relationship between Values and Social Structure; Jane Addams (1860-1935); Themes in Addams' Work; Gendered Standpoint and Multiple Vantage Points |
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Social Democracy, Social Ethic, and Social ChangeCharlotte Perkins Gilman (1860-1935); Themes in Gilman's Work; Gendered Standpoint and Sociality; Social Construction; African American Founding Women; Anna Julia Cooper (1858-1964); Ida Bell Wells-Barnett (1862-1931); Themes in the Women's Work; Oppression, Power, and Diversity; Death, Grief, and Bereavement: Sociological Insights from the Founding Women; The Sociality of Human Beings; Sociostructural Context, Diversity, and Multiple Vantage Points; Social Inequality and Exclusion; Power and the Phenomenon of Social Construction |
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Electronic book
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| Author |
Cox, Gerry R
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9781315453842 |
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1315453843 |
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