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... > social science subjects > psychology > behavior mechanisms > human development > death and dying > conceptualizations of death > sociological perspectives on death
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sociological perspectives on death  

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  • Most sciences of the human condition—including history, social psychology, philosophy, anthropology, religion, political science, and sociology—address the problem of mortality. Many find it difficult to demarcate a sociology of death because the discipline's subject matter often overlaps that of others, as when studying the economic underpinnings of religious violence or the philosophical justifications of political pogroms. [Source: Encyclopedia of Death and the Human Experience; Death, Sociological Perspectives]

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