Puri Jyoti
Simmons University, 300 The Fenway, Boston, MA 02115 USA.
Am Sociol. 2021;52(3):638-655. doi: 10.1007/s12108-021-09511-2. Epub 2021 Aug 31.
This article seeks to rewrite the genealogy of sociology of death by revisiting the history of sociology, from the 1830s to the early twentieth century. Providing an overview of sociological studies of death that consolidated into a subfield in the 1990s, it shows how recent attempts at including intersectional and decolonial approaches link with considerations of death in sociology's early history. Engaging sociological thinkers Harriet Martineau, Émile Durkheim, Ida B. Wells, and W.E.B. Du Bois, the article seeks to provide an alternate genealogy of the sociology of death and to make a case for mainstreaming the study of death within the discipline. It shows that questions of suicide and Black death were a significant part of these scholars' writings and that attention to loss and mourning shaped emergent understandings of the social, sociological frameworks, and methodologies. This view supplements efforts toward encouraging intersectional and geopolitical approaches to the study of death in sociology, approaches that are more needed than ever before to contend with the scale of loss and suffering that is filling lives.
本文旨在通过回顾19世纪30年代至20世纪初的社会学历史，重写死亡社会学的谱系。文章概述了20世纪90年代合并为一个子领域的死亡社会学研究，展示了最近将交叉性和去殖民化方法纳入其中的尝试如何与社会学早期历史中的死亡考量相联系。通过探讨社会学思想家哈丽雅特·马蒂诺、埃米尔·涂尔干、艾达·B·韦尔斯和W.E.B.杜波依斯，本文试图提供死亡社会学的另一种谱系，并为将死亡研究纳入该学科主流提出理由。文章表明，自杀问题和黑人死亡问题是这些学者著作的重要组成部分，对丧失和哀悼的关注塑造了对社会、社会学框架和方法论的新理解。这一观点补充了鼓励采用交叉性和地缘政治方法研究社会学中死亡问题的努力，在应对充斥着生活的丧失和苦难规模方面，这些方法比以往任何时候都更加必要。
