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The sociology of death (sometimes known as sociology of death, dying and bereavement or death sociology) explores and examines the relationships between society and death.
These relationships can include religious, cultural, philosophical, family, to behavioural insights among many others.[1] It widens our understanding of death as more than clinical death, but a process combining social elements from the immediate needs of deathcare to wider social beliefes. Involving multiple disciplines, the sociology of deathcare can be seen as an interdisciplinary field of study across sociology and its sub-fields.[2]
- ^ Lofland, Lyn H. (1975). "Toward a Sociology of Death and Dying: Editor's Introduction". Urban Life. 4 (3): 243–249. doi:10.1177/089124167500400301. ISSN 0098-3039. S2CID 145645862.
- ^ Van Brussel, Leen; Carpentier, Nico (2014). The social construction of death : interdisciplinary perspectives. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan. ISBN 978-1137391919. OCLC 890435068.