Dealing with death: Problems and responses in American funeral practice.

Title: Dealing with death: Problems and responses in American funeral practice.
Identifier: AAI9969701
identifier: 9969701
Creator: JeckerByrne, Matthew.
Contributor: Adviser: Lindsey Churchill
Date: 2000
Language: English
Publisher: City University of New York.
Subject: Sociology, General
Abstract: A descriptive, exploratory study of the workings of a medium-sized independent funeral home. The study describes the social forces both internal and external to the lived order of the funeral home.;This study focuses on social control, cultural proscription, impression management, institutionalization, role taking, role constraints, and ad hocing in the American funeral service. Through direct observation of the funeral setting I am able to provide detailed descriptions of the practices of the American funeral and the conditions which shape it. Through narrative description and analysis I report on the every day practices in an independently owned funeral home anbd how these practices are a reproduction of the social order common to American funeral homes.
Type: dissertation
Source: PQT Legacy CUNY.xlsx
degree: Ph.D.

Media: Dealing with death: Problems and responses in American funeral practice.