Exploring Grief: Towards a Sociology of Sorrow Contributor(s): Jacobsen, Michael Hviid (Editor), Petersen, Anders (Editor) |
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ISBN: 0367192462 ISBN-13: 9780367192464 Publisher: Routledge OUR PRICE: $171.00 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: September 2019 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Social Science | Sociology - General - Self-help | Death, Grief, Bereavement |
Dewey: 155.937 |
LCCN: 2019026497 |
Physical Information: 0.7" H x 6.3" W x 9.3" (1.05 lbs) 232 pages |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: As modern society's routine sequestration of death and grief is increasingly replaced by late-modern society's growing concern with existential issues and emotionality, this book explores grief as a social emotion, bringing together contributions from scholars across the social sciences and humanities to examine its social and cultural aspects. Thematically organised in order to consider the historical changes in our understanding of grief, literary treatments of grief, contemporary forms of grief and grief as a perspective from which to engage in critique of society, it provides insights into the sociality of grief and will appeal to scholars of sociology, social theory and cultural studies with interests in the emotions and social pathologies. |