ISBN:
0195045157
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0195045157
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0199725888
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128043967X
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1601296282
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9780195045154
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9780199725885
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9781280439674
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9781601296283
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource (xix, 521 p.)
DDC:
306/.9
Keywords:
Death
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SOCIAL SCIENCE / Death & Dying
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FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS / Death, Grief, Bereavement
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Death
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Death / Social aspects
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Life cycle, Human / Social aspects
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Gesellschaft
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Death Social aspects
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Death Cross-cultural studies
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Life cycle, Human Social aspects
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Sterben
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Lebenslauf
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Soziologie
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Kulturvergleich
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Tod
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Tod
;
Soziologie
;
Tod
;
Kulturvergleich
;
Sterben
;
Lebenslauf
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
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1. Introduction: Death's Revelations of Life; 2. What Death Means: Death in Cross-Cultural and Historical Perspective; 3. Death's Impacts on Society; 4. How We Die: The Social Stratification of Death; 5. Death and Religion; 6. Secular Perspectives on Death; 7. Death and Work; 8. The Politics of Death; 9. Death and the Military Experience; 10. Death in Popular Culture; 11. Death and the Medical System; 12. Death and the Individual: The Social Psychology of Dying and Surviving; Index
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Arguing that death is the central force shaping our social life and order, the author draws on a wide variety of disciplines to provide a broad sociological perspective on the interrelationships of life and death
