Thanato sociology

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Thanato sociology (from ancient Greek θάνατος, thánatos , " death ") is the special sociology that deals in the narrower sense with social action around the dying and the deceased, in the broader sense with the social meaning of death and the need to die in individual societies .

Thanato- sociological topics already appear - not under this heading - in the classics of sociology (e.g. with Émile Durkheim on the occasion of suicide ; especially with Robert Hertz on the collective representation of death), were taken up sporadically in the subject (e.g. with Franz Borkenau ) and are in Germany working area z. B. by Werner Fuchs-Heinritz , Alois Hahn , Klaus Feldmann , Hubert Knoblauch and Armin Nassehi .

literature

  • Thorsten Benkel : The administration of death. Approaches to a Sociology of the Cemetery . Logos Verlag, Berlin 2012, ISBN 978-3-8325-3126-3 .
  • Thorsten Benkel (ed.): The future of death. Heterotopias of the end of life . Transcript, Bielefeld 2016, ISBN 978-3-8376-2992-7 .
  • Thorsten Benkel , Matthias Meitzler (ed.): Between life and death. Social science border crossings . Springer VS, Wiesbaden 2018, ISBN 978-3-658-22277-2 .
  • Émile Durkheim : The suicide . Luchterhand, Berlin / Neuwied (French orig. 1897) (German 1973)
  • Klaus Feldmann : Dying and Death. Social science theories and research results . Leske + Budrich, Opladen 1997.
  • Alois Hahn : Attitudes to death and their social conditionality. A sociological investigation . Stuttgart 1968.
  • Robert Hertz : The sacred, sin and death. Studies of culture, religion and sociology of knowledge . UVK, Constance 2007.
  • Hubert Knoblauch , Arnold Zingerle (Ed.): Thanatosoziologie. Death, Hospice, and the Institutionalization of Dying . Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 2005.
  • Gesa Lindemann : The limits of the social. For the socio-technical construction of life and death in intensive care medicine . Fink, Munich 2002.
  • Matthias Meitzler : Sociology of Transience. Time, aging, death and remembering in a social context . Publishing house Dr. Kovac, Hamburg 2011, ISBN 978-3-8300-5455-9 .

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