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Well-established scholars from a variety of disciplines - including sociology, anthropology, media and cultural studies, and political sciences - use the social construction of death and dying to analyse a wide variety of meaning-making practices in societal fields such as ethics, politics, media, medicine and family.

"Contents" -- "Introduction: The Paradoxes of Death" -- "One. The Intellectual Origins of the Cult of Death" -- "Two. The Commodification of Death: The Social and Historical Perspectives" -- "Three. The Monsters and the Humans" -- "Four. Harry Potter, Tanya Grotter, and Death in the Coming-of-Age Novel" -- "Conclusion" -- "Notes" -- "Selected Bibliography".

The act of death itself and the rituals surrounding it vary enormously and shed a fascinating light on the cultures of which they are a part. In this brief and lively history, Douglas Davies - internationally acknowledged as one of the leading experts in this field - tackles some of the most significant aspects of death and weaves them into a compelling story about our changing attitudes to dying.; Offers a fascinating examination of this subject which is of enduring interest in every culture in the world.; Considers the profound influence death has had on subjects ranging from philosophy to a

Includes section "Book reviews." ; Papers of the annual meeting of the association issued as a separately paged supplement, 1959-1960. ; Mode of access: Internet. ; Mode of access: World Wide Web ; Published by the Southwestern Social Science Association (called 1919-Mar. 1923, Southwestern Political Science Association; Apr. 1923-Mar. 1931, Southwestern Political and Social Science Association)

"Foreword" -- "Preface" -- "Acknowledgments" -- "Contents" -- "Contributors" -- "About the Editors" -- "Part I: Beyond Local Jurisdictions: Science in a Global Web of Relations" -- "Chapter 1: Introduction" -- " Responding to Death at the Border" -- " Global History as Strategy of Critical Reflection" -- " A Preliminary Note on Terms and Labels" -- " Scope and Organization of the Book" -- "References" -- "Chapter 2: All That Remains" -- " All That Remains of an Afghan Girl" -- " All That Remains of Cambodian and Myanmar Migrants in Thailand" -- " All That Remains of an Indian Migrant in Dubai" -- " All That Remains Somewhere in the Sonoran Desert" -- "References" -- "Chapter 3: Capitalism and Crisis in Central America" -- " The Roots of Crisis in Central America" -- " Colonization and Independence as Elite Lockstep" -- " Total War as Foundation for Neoliberalism" -- " From Tanks to Night Watchmen: Neoliberalism and the Continuum of Violence" -- "References" -- "Chapter 4: Naming State Crimes, Naming the Dead: Immigration Policy and "The New Disappeared" in the United States and Mexico" -- " The New Disappeared: Public Policy, Vertical Borders, and Migrant Death" -- " Navigating Mexico" -- " Navigating South Texas" -- " Pardoning the State, Blaming the Dead" -- " Making Life and Death Visible" -- "References" -- "Chapter 5: Loss, Uncertainty, and Action: Ethnographic Encounters with Families of the Missing in the Central America-Mexico-United States Corridor" -- " Searching Across Borders" -- " Geographies of Risk, Disappearance, and Death" -- " Mexico: Home, Transit, and Destination" -- " Rippling Effects of Loss and Uncertainty" -- " Solidarity and Activism Among Families of the Missing" -- " Conclusion" -- "References

Social sciences between knowledge and ideologies: need for philosophy -- Part I. Social and cognitive roots for reflexivity upon the research process -- Social sciences, what for? On the manifold directions of social research -- Vitenskapsteori-- - what, how and why? -- Culture or Biology? If this sounds interesting, you might be confused -- Conditional Objectivism: A Strategy for Connecting the Social Sciences and Practical Decision-Making -- Towards Reflexivity in Science: Anthropological Reflections on Science and Society -- Part II. Philosophies of explanation in the social sciences -- Explanation: guidance for social scientists -- From causality to catalysis in the social sciences -- How to identify and how to conduct research that is informative and reproducible -- Explaining social phenomena: Emergence and Levels of Explanation -- Part III. Social normativity in social sciences -- Normativity in psychology and the social sciences: Questions of universality -- The crisis in psychological science, and the need for a person-oriented approach -- Open access, a remedy to the crisis in scientific inquiry? -- Part IV. Social processes in particular sciences: challenges to interdisciplinarity -- Fragmented and Critical? Some challenges for a social organization of Norwegian sociology, and implications for innovation -- How do economists think? -- Part V.General Conclusion -- What can social science practitioners learn from philosophies of science? -- Index.

"Prolonged solitary confinement has become a widespread and standard practice in U.S. prisons--even though it consistently drives healthy prisoners insane, makes the mentally ill sicker, and, according to the testimony of prisoners, threatens to reduce life to a living death. In this profoundly important and original book, Lisa Guenther examines the death-in-life experience of solitary confinement in America from the early nineteenth century to today's supermax prisons. Documenting how solitary confinement undermines prisoners' sense of identity and their ability to understand the world, Guenther demonstrates the real effects of forcibly isolating a person for weeks, months, or years. Drawing on the testimony of prisoners and the work of philosophers and social activists from Edmund Husserl and Maurice Merleau-Ponty to Frantz Fanon and Angela Davis, the author defines solitary confinement as a kind of social death. It argues that isolation exposes the relational structure of being by showing what happens when that structure is abused--when prisoners are deprived of the concrete relations with others on which our existence as sense-making creatures depends. Because of this, solitary confinement is beyond a form of racial or political violence; it is also an assault on being itself. A searing and unforgettable indictment, Solitary Confinement reveals what the devastation wrought by the torture of solitary confinement tells us about what it means to be human--and why humanity is so often destroyed when we separate prisoners from all other people."--