Course Schedule and Catalog

Department: Sociology

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: SOCIOLOGY OF THE LIFE CYCLE: DEATH AND DYING ***** Consideration of the social meanings of death in various cultures; medical and other definitions of death; attitudes toward death and dying; career of the self in life and death; too-early, on-time and too-late deaths; "near-death experiences"; social management of death and dying in various organizational settings (homes, hospitals, nursing homes, hospices, battle fields, etc.); changing causes of death, mortality rates and demographic characteristics of dying persons; various types of death (suicide, accident, illness, murder, war, etc.); relations of aging and death; implications of changing death patterns for individuals, families, organizations, and societies in this nuclear