Greetings!
I am currently working on a study "The Social Construction of Bereavement." I
have collected data from people in our geographic region who were asked to
respond to their perceptions of the "appropriateness" of statements made by
one who is bereaved. Statements range " I drink more than I used to now" to
"Sometimes I want to run away and scream." There were 8 vignettes that had
different genders of the bereaved, different relationship to the deceased
(spouse, son), and different circumstances of death (long term illness ,
sudden accident). I have close to 300 respondents (20-40 for each of the 8
different vignettes). I am in the process of entering data, as you know most
academicians must do this during holidays and breaks. I should be finished
in January for result tablulation.
This study sounds like it ideally fits the program. Does the conference
require that research be complete? or just data collection complete?
Thanks.
Stephen D. Krau, Ph.D.
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>> Folks:
>>
>> I am organizing a session for the Canadian Sociology and Anthropology
>> Association's annual meeting in late May of 2002 (to be held as a part of
>> the Congress of the Social Sciences and Humanities in Toronto, Ontario).
>> The session is called "The Undiscovered Country: Social and Cultural
>> Aspects of Death and Dying." I still have space for a couple of papers.
>> Thus, if you are interested in proposing a paper for the session, please
>> e-mail me an abstract as soon as possible. If you need further
>> information, the Canadian Sociology and Anthropology Association's website
>> on the conference is at: http://alcor.concordia.ca/~csaa1/eng/confe.htm
>> The Congress website is at:
>> http://www.hssfc.ca/english/congress/congress.html
>> The conference runs from May 29 - June 1, 2002. Toronto is Canada's
>> largest city, with all of the amenities (and some of the problems) which
>> accompany such a dense concentration of humanity.
>>
>> The session proposal is as follows:
>>
>> THE UNDISCOVERED COUNTRY: SOCIAL AND CULTURAL ASPECTS OF DEATH AND DYING
>> Organizer: Ivan Emke
>> It goes without saying that the crossing over from life to death is a
>> centrally important moment in our own lives (albeit one which may receive
>> little prior contemplation). In addition, how we anticipate, acknowledge,
>> cope with and remember the deaths of those around us is of great social
>> and cultural significance. This session will focus on how human societies
>> deal with the social ruptures which are caused by death. The papers can
>> cover a wide range of research areas, including the place of death in our
>> culture, rituals of remembrance, issues related to hospice care, trends in
>> funeral and memorial practices, historical or cross-cultural studies of
>> death and dying, the analysis of professional groups who work with the
>> dying or the dead, as well as other cognate topics.
>>
>> I welcome any and all replies!
>>
>>
>>
>> Ivan Emke 709-637-6200, ext. 6322
>> Associate Professor 709-639-8125 (fax)
>> Chair, Social/Cultural Studies [log in to unmask]
>> Sir Wilfred Grenfell College
>> Memorial University of Newfoundland
>> Corner Brook, NF
>> A2H 6P9
>>
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