Exploring grief : towards a sociology of sorrow / edited by Michael Hviid Jacobsen and Anders Petersen.
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TextPublisher: London : Routledge, 2019Description: 1 online resource (245 p.)ISBN: 9780429576935; 0429576935; 9780429201301; 0429201303; 9780429574825; 0429574827; 9780429572715; 0429572719Subject(s): SOCIAL SCIENCE / General | SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General | Bereavement -- Social aspects | Grief -- Social aspects | Emotions -- Sociological aspects | Bereavement in literature | Grief in literatureDDC classification: 155.9/37 LOC classification: BF575.G7Online resources: Taylor & Francis | OCLC metadata license agreement Description based upon print version of record.
Cover; Half Title; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; List of contributors; Preface and acknowledgements; Introduction: Towards a sociology of grief -- historical, cultural and social explorations of grief as an emotion; Part I Grief and history; 1 Grief in modern history: an ongoing evolution; 2 Diversity in human grieving: historical and cross-cultural perspectives; 3 The impact of the two world wars on cultures of grieving: grief in England, 1914-1980; Part II Grief and literature
4 Magical thinking: experiences of grief and mourning in George Saunders' Lincoln in the Bardo and Jesmyn Ward's Sing, Unburied, Sing5 A story of loss: self-narration of grief and public feeling rules; 6 Writing grief: the fraught work of mourning in fiction; Part III Forms of grief; 7 The denial of grief: reflections from a decade of anthropological research on parental bereavement and child death; 8 Public mourning: displays of grief and grievance; 9 Grief in human and companion-animal loss, bonding, and dividual pet-personhood; Part IV Grief and social critique
10 The medicalization of grief11 Suffocated grief, resilience and survival among African American families; 12 Grief in an individualized society: a critical corrective to the advancement of diagnostic culture; Index
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.
"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"-- Provided by publisher.
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