Thanatopolitics and Thanatosociology – Draft of the Theoretical and Conceptual Framework
Thanatopolitics and Thanatosociology – Draft of the Theoretical and Conceptual Framework

Summary/Abstract: The aim of the appendix is to show the directions of sociological research of political use of death. There are two related Social Science discourses on death: (1) thanatos sociological, which deals with social inequalities in mortality, and (2) thanatopolitical, in which center is the political instrumentalization of death. It is shown the historical evolution of these relations to death and are considered different theoretical and methodological starting points that explain the political side of death and its symbolic capital. The vision of death has changed, as well as political use of the death. The most attention was devoted to a class tier thanatological differences. Classes do not show only economic inequality, but also the symbolic and cultural inequality, and so they also differ in relation to the death. It is presented a draft for the sociological framework for the study of historical class interests that determine the ideological use of death.

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