2021
DOI: 10.1007/s11186-021-09448-y
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Toward a sociology of finitude: life, death, and the question of limits

Abstract: Progressing beyond the given has been a key modern tendency. Yet modern societies are currently facing the problem of how to put limits on progress, expansion, and growth, live within them, and preserve (rather than transcend) the present. Drawing on economic sociology scholarship on valuation and morality in economic life, this article develops and applies the term economization to analyze the enactment of limits on progress. The question of end-of-life care-when to stop medical efforts to prolong life, postp… Show more

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“…A recent qualitative study in the United States explored the sociology of limits of finitude with EOLC as a specific example. 59 The study found three regimes of valuation that helped define limits in EOLC: a medical professional regime led by the palliative care specialty that promoted the concept of limiting inappropriate life-sustaining treatment to facilitate a good death, a monetary regime that would help hospitals, insurers, and policymakers consider capping unnecessary expenses on disproportionate EOLC, and a patient-focused regime designating individual patients or their families as the actual authorities for deciding EOLC.…”
Section: Discussionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…A recent qualitative study in the United States explored the sociology of limits of finitude with EOLC as a specific example. 59 The study found three regimes of valuation that helped define limits in EOLC: a medical professional regime led by the palliative care specialty that promoted the concept of limiting inappropriate life-sustaining treatment to facilitate a good death, a monetary regime that would help hospitals, insurers, and policymakers consider capping unnecessary expenses on disproportionate EOLC, and a patient-focused regime designating individual patients or their families as the actual authorities for deciding EOLC.…”
Section: Discussionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…For example, economization occurs with the quantification of health status through measures such as Quality-Adjusted Life Years and Disability-adjusted Life Years (MacKillop and Sheard 2018; Kenny 2017; Ashmore, Mulkay, and Pinch 1989), the creation of competitive labor markets for teacher accountability enforcement (Spring 2015; Ball 2003), as a means of managing insurance claims following environmental disasters (Elliott 2021), or as a tool of statecraft for managing populations (Murphy 2017; Foucault 2007). Economization can also be more or less definitive: “ambivalent economization” processes may decouple and recombine economic expertise from policy outcomes (Griffen and Panofsky 2021), as economic and moral considerations exist in tension with one another and are navigated through social interaction (Livne 2019; 2021).…”
Section: The Economization Of Early Lifementioning
confidence: 99%
“…Ez az írás számos olyan forrásra támaszkodik, amelyek a sebezhetőségre (May, 2017), a végességre és az egzisztenciális szorongásokra összpontosítanak, mint például az egzisztenciális pszichológia (Yalom, 1980(Yalom, , 2008; a halál szociológiája (Kearl, 1989;Nielsen-Skotnicki, 2019;Livne, 2021) és a tagadás társadalmi szerveződése (Norgaard, 2011;Weintrobe, 2013); az érzelmi megküzdéssel kapcsolatos tanulmányok (Pihkala, 2019;Kieft, 2021); valamint az egzisztenciális szorongás és a fenntarthatóság kapcsolatával foglalkozó írások (Adams, 2016;Koller, 2021). Érvelésünket ugyanakkor leginkább egyrészt a rettegéskezelés elméletére (terror management theory, Arndt et al, 1997Arndt et al, , 2004, másrészt egy ehhez kapcsolható, de eltérő megközelítés, az önmeghaladás-kezelés elméleteire (transcendence management theory) alapozzuk (Cozzolino et al, 2004;Cozzolino-Blackie, 2013).…”
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