2010
DOI: 10.1016/j.poetic.2009.08.001
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The dismal trade as culture industry

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“…Sanders [23] demonstrated that the US mortuary industry has undergone dramatic changes with respect to its highly corporatized and consumer-oriented nature, thus altering the operation mechanisms of creating, serving, marketing, and distributing its goods or services. This study includes a case study in the mortuary industry by adopting the cultural industry argument of Adorno and Horkheimer.…”
Section: Conceptual Background and Literature Reviewmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Sanders [23] demonstrated that the US mortuary industry has undergone dramatic changes with respect to its highly corporatized and consumer-oriented nature, thus altering the operation mechanisms of creating, serving, marketing, and distributing its goods or services. This study includes a case study in the mortuary industry by adopting the cultural industry argument of Adorno and Horkheimer.…”
Section: Conceptual Background and Literature Reviewmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Both enabling and limiting the expression of grief (Neimeyer, Klass and Dennis, 2014;Walter, 1999) the most universal of these rituals in contemporary western industrialised societies is the funeral. Offering "… a place to express and receive social support" (O'Rourke, Spitzberg and Hannawa, 2011, p.733), the way in which funerals are conducted today reveals much about relationships and interaction between and within families (Sanders, 2010), not least because "… there are few family events that the entire family attends" (Black et al, 2014, p. 528).…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…As people's lives became more industrialised, the transfer of what was once domestic work became more commercialized. Sanders (2010) discusses the way American ceremonies honouring the deceased have become reduplicated and sold as commodity-funeral homes sell packaged funerals that corporations have designed for mass consumption. While many historical aspects of death care have carried forward into this industrialised process-preparation of burial ground, body care, creation of a container for the body (caskets or urns), and dissemination of a funeral service-these facets of the death-care industry have become commodities each with a price tag attached to them.…”
Section: Contemporary Perspectives Of Death and Dyingmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…While many historical aspects of death care have carried forward into this industrialised process-preparation of burial ground, body care, creation of a container for the body (caskets or urns), and dissemination of a funeral service-these facets of the death-care industry have become commodities each with a price tag attached to them. Sanders (2010) believes that death care in America, once performed by family and community, are now services rendered with fees attached, thus creating a manufactured commodity of death care.…”
Section: Contemporary Perspectives Of Death and Dyingmentioning
confidence: 99%
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