Death and Society - a methodological critique of Zygmunt Bauman's "psychoanalytic" approach to sociology
(2011) SOCK01 20112Sociology
- Abstract
- This essay examines Zygmunt Bauman’s Mortality, Immortality, and Other Life Strategies from a methodological perspective. Bauman’s method is influenced by phenomenology and psychoanalysis, and has many followers in different fields. I provide a critique of this method, and show it to be inadequate for explaining or drawing conclusions about the world. Instead, I propose a return to classical sociological method as based on observation, conceptualisation, and logical deduction.
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- author
- Pyk Angere, Saga LU
- supervisor
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- Eva Kärfve LU
- organization
- course
- SOCK01 20112
- year
- 2011
- type
- M2 - Bachelor Degree
- subject
- keywords
- Zygmunt Bauman, denial of death, culture, sociological method, psychoanalysis
- language
- English
- id
- 2172435
- date added to LUP
- 2011-10-10 08:14:25
- date last changed
- 2012-02-17 13:53:43
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