SOCI 1002 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Ableism, Maternal Death, Sick Role

• School: Carleton University
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOCI 1002
• Professor: Tamy Superle

Document Summary

Death and dying aren"t just religious, philosophical, and medical issues, but a social problem as well. Attitudes toward death as well as settings within which death typically takes place vary widely across time and place. In canada today, dying and death tend to be separated from everyday life. The fears, hopes, and orientations people have towards it aren"t instinctive but are learned from such public symbols as the languages, arts, and religious, and funerary rituals of their culture. In contemporary, industrial societies death is seen as unnatural because it largely has been removed from everyday life. Most deaths occur among older person and in institutional settings. Every culture has a coherent mortality thesis whose explanations of death are so thoroughly ingrained that they"re believed to be right by its members. Historically, death has been a common occurrence at all stages of the life course. Until the 20th century, there was a small chance an infant live to adulthood.