What is social death?

Kráľová, Jana

doi:10.1080/21582041.2015.1114407

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“…Second, our examination of top‐down irremedial work could be complemented by investigations of kindred efforts generated from “below.” For example, unable to remove a parent he considers abusive, neglectful or guilty of a crushing betrayal and convinced that the offending parent is “beyond repair” and that “nothing will change” (Agllias :100), an adolescent might, after exhausting various avoidance strategies, exit the family, staying with friends, other relatives, or opting for a precarious life on the streets. Similar irremedial constructions may prompt an adult child—likely possessing more options and resources than an adolescent—to sever all contact with such a parent, consigning him to a kind of “social death” (Králová ). Analogous practices can occur at work.…”

Section: Resultsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Irremedial Work and Act‐Person Merger: Constructing Irredeemable Selves in Death Penalty Trials

Colomy¹,

Phillips²

2018

Sociological Forum

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Irremedial work is an interpretive practice aimed at establishing a vital connection between a person's untoward behavior and his true self. Fifteen death penalty trial transcripts are employed as strategic research materials to examine how an individual's transgressions and the thoughts and feelings purportedly associated with his misconduct are merged with his self. A qualitative content analysis of these data identifies four recurring themes in the prosecution's efforts to fuse defendants’ alleged crimes with their real selves: sacrilege, culpability, malevolence, and act‐person merger. The argument presented in this study can be extended by investigating bottom‐up irremedial work, the responses of those defined as irredeemable, and by considering cases where act‐person merger is experienced as an authentic expression of an individual's essential self.

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Section: Resultsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Irremedial Work and Act‐Person Merger: Constructing Irredeemable Selves in Death Penalty Trials

Colomy¹,

Phillips²

2018

Sociological Forum

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“…A signi cant impact of addiction was the loss of relationships with individuals with addiction and its effects on family stability and community life. The participants inability to have a meaningful relationship with their relatives who were suffering from addiction was grieved as a type of social death; some family members behaved as though the person with the addiction did not exist because of the person's inability to positively impact the family's social dimensions [19]. Socially dead individuals are deemed to have lost social identity, social connectedness, and bodily integration [19,20].…”

Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

“I can’t live like that”: Reflections of caregiver distress from caring for an individual with problematic substance use

Maina¹,

Ogenchuk²,

Pharneuf³

et al. 2020

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Background: The impact of addiction extends beyond the individual using a substance. Caring for an individual with addiction creates persistent stressful circumstances that cause worry, anger, depression, shame, guilt, anxiety, and behavioral problems within the family unit.The aim of the study: The paper aims to explore the psychological impact when caring for individuals with active addictions and self-care strategies caregivers employ.Methods: The study adopted an exploratory qualitative design and used purposeful sampling to recruit study participants through posters, word-of-mouth, and e-mail. Study participants were required to have a family member living with addiction and not be active substance users themselves. In-depth individual interviews were conducted among 21 participants to gather their experiences, meanings, and interpretation of how it feels to provide care for a family member suffering from addiction and substance use.Results: Three themes, whose overarching focus is the pains that living and caring for a family with addiction caused the participants, are discussed. These included 1) caring experiences, 2) factors shaping caring experiences, and 3) self-care strategies.Conclusion: The stress associated with caring for individuals with addictions impacts the caregiver’s physical and mental health. Specific care modalities targeting caregivers need to be developed to address the health impact and to support self-care.

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“…The term "social death" first entered the vocabulary of social science by the study by Sudnow (1967) on social processes related to death. On the basis of observations, the authors have expressed the existence of differences between clinical, biological and social death (Kralova, 2015). Sudnow claimed that "social death" is the result of focusing on the body (Borgstrom, 2015), which many times reflects the current care.…”

Section: Social Isolation Social Dying Social Deathmentioning

confidence: 99%

Social death in seniors

Horanska¹,

Lizáková

2019

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Dying and death are parts of the life and are unique and personal to everyone. People are afraid of death, often due the fear of the unknown, suffering and loss of the quality of life. Death as such is affecting seniors most, which is, of course; relating to the life cycle. With ageing people are clearly aware of the irreversibility of this cycle and especially in cases, when decreasing of quality of their lives is linked with hospitalization or other forms of social care, which are requiring them to leave their home and social environment. Palliative care is applied in the terminal stages of the disease in present time and the process of dying is an integral part of nursing care. Seniors assess life via the quality of life. This quality of life is judged on its own values, which are in different order for everyone: health, social networking, free time activities or financial situation. Hospitalization of the senior often leads to social isolation, which in many cases ends with social death, and it usually comes much earlier than biological death. The aim of the paper is to draw the attention of the professional and general public to the phenomenon of social isolation and social death of seniors, which in our society, and not only in Slovakia, is beginning to emerge as a more and more current issue.

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What is social death?

Cited by 87 publications

References 38 publications

Irremedial Work and Act‐Person Merger: Constructing Irredeemable Selves in Death Penalty Trials

Irremedial Work and Act‐Person Merger: Constructing Irredeemable Selves in Death Penalty Trials

“I can’t live like that”: Reflections of caregiver distress from caring for an individual with problematic substance use

Social death in seniors

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