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Whatever happened to social class? An examination of the neglect of working class cultures in the sociology of death
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Health Sociology Review
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December 1, 2007
- Author:
- Howarth, Glennys
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ABSTRACT
This paper explores the development of the sociology of death. It begins by tracing some of the major trends in sociology more generally that have influenced understandings of the social impact of mortality. The question is then raised as to why sociologists of death have hitherto largely failed to research into working-class cultures of death. Following a brief discussion of some of the literature that has considered working-class practices, a number of explanations are offered for this relative neglect: that social class is no longer relevant in postmodern societies; that the creation of death studies as a specialism in sociology has isolated academics from the conceptual ...
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