Thanatopolitics and thanatosociology

Abstract

Th e aim of the appendix is to show the directions of sociological research
of political use of death. Th ere are two related Social Science
discourses on death: (1) thanatos sociological, which deals with social
inequalities in mortality, and (2) thanatopolitical, in which center is
the political instrumentalization of death. It is shown the historical
evolution of these relations to death and are considered diff erent theoretical
and methodological starting points that explain the political
side of death and its symbolic capital. Th e vision of death has changed,
as well as political use of the death. Th e most attention was devoted
to a class-tier thanatological diff erences. Classes do not show only economic
inequality, but also the symbolic and cultural inequality, and
so they also diff er in relation to the death. It is presented a draft for
the sociological framework for the study of historical class interests that
determine the ideological use of death.