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      • The aim of this review is to draw attention to this seriously overlooked set of influences and to demonstrate that sociological perspectives about dying and the determination of death are crucial, not only for understanding current and past patterns of dissent, but also for devising more inclusive health policies in the future.
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  2. What happens to an individual is affected by the social context within which it takes place, but death also has broader social implications. At a micro level of analysis, death and the dying process involves the loss of social roles, and a shift in existing roles.

  3. Abstract This chapter develops the argument for why the study of dying and death in a social context is important. It also makes the case for why a sociological per-spective is a valuable tool in providing a different lens in which to analyze dying and death practices. That lens was suggested by C. Wright Mills (The sociological imagination ...

  4. Mar 21, 2017 · As early career researchers studying the end of life, we recognise that scholarly activity in the field of death studies – an umbrella term for research spanning all aspects of death, dying and bereavement, including end-of-life care – is growing in popularity.

    • Erica Borgstrom, Julie Ellis
    • 2017
  5. Sep 24, 2022 · This chapter develops the argument for why the study of dying and death in a social context is important. It also makes the case for why a sociological perspective is a valuable...

  6. Apr 1, 2008 · I will argue that by overlooking one simple sociological fact – dying as a social relationship – we also overlook the single most important reason why biomedical and philosophical formulations of brain death are incomplete and therefore subject to resistance and dissent.

    • Allan Kellehear
    • 2008
  7. I acknowledge that dying from cancer, or elderly dying in nursing homes, is mediated by social determinants such as gender, class or education for example. Dying behaviour often reflects the different lifestyles and values of the per-son at the centre of that conduct.

  8. First, the literature on dying and the self includes dying as a social process, dying trajectories, attitudes toward death, and the potentially mortal impact of such social stressors as retirement, residential relocation, and economic change.

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