By Leen Van Brussel, N. Carpentier
ISBN-10: 1349483133
ISBN-13: 9781349483136
Well-established students from various disciplines - together with sociology, anthropology, media and cultural stories, and political sciences – use the social development of dying and demise to examine a wide selection of meaning-making practices in societal fields reminiscent of ethics, politics, media, drugs and kinfolk.
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The Social Construction of Death: Interdisciplinary Perspectives
Well-established students from various disciplines - together with sociology, anthropology, media and cultural reports, and political sciences – use the social development of dying and death to examine a wide selection of meaning-making practices in societal fields equivalent to ethics, politics, media, drugs and relatives.
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The researcher’s position, privileges, perspective, and interactions enter the research situation and contribute to its construction (Charmaz, 2009a). Earlier versions of grounded theory directed researchers to be neutral observers with no preconceptions about their research. Ironically, this position allows ignoring assumptions about the world as well as research topics. Constructivist grounded theorists question earlier notions of discovery, objectivity, and the quest for decontextualised generalisations separate from time, place, social conditions, and the situation of inquiry.
134). Constructing the good death The shift from medical–rationalist discourses to medical–revivalist discourses has impacted on the evaluative–hierarchical components that distinguish between good and bad deaths. While some components of a good death can be considered hegemonic and universalised (such as a death following a long and fulfilled life, during which children have been raised and provided for (see Seale, 2004)), there have been some considerable changes in the meanings attributed to the good death, which again bears witness to the contingency of the discourse of death.
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