Sociology of death and dying: Japanese Case

2015 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 25380688
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Section: 一般
• Research Field: Sociology
• Research Institution: Osaka City University
• Principal Investigator: Shindo Yuzo 大阪市立大学, 大学院文学研究科, 教授 (00187569)
• Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha): Sasaki Yoko 大阪市立大学, 大学院文学研究科, UCRC研究員 (70647833)
• Research Collaborator: Christakis Nicholas A. Yale University, Human Nature Lab, Professor
• Project Period (FY): 2013-04-01 – 2016-03-31
• Keywords: 死の社会学 / 死別と悲嘆 / 医療化 / 自然死・検死 / 葬送儀礼 / 自死・自殺 / 安楽死・尊厳死・水子 / エイジング

Outline of Final Research Achievements

The project aims to be a "pilot study" of so-called "Sociology of death and dying," relatively newly emerging research area in sociology. Four specific tasks are to be pursued: 1) delineating the outline of
"sociology of death and dying" through examining the research literature including death studies and thanatology in general, and sociology of death in particular; 2) codifying the representative and basic research literature on the specific subfields that in all compose the "sociology of death and dying."; 3)presenting the sociological analyses of Japanese society, on the specific fields established by 1) and 2) tasks; and lastly 4) exploring and the searching the meaning and significance the field "sociology of death and dying"might have on the understanding of modern, contemporary societies in general , and the Japanese society in particular.

Free Research Field

医療社会学、社会学理論