SOC 465 - Sociological Dimensions of Mortality and Bereavement

(3 units)

Prerequisites: Completion of 60 upper-division units.
Sociological approach to institutional dimensions of mortality and loss. Focuses on impact of social inequalities, policies, programs and institutions on the experience of death, dying and grief. Topics include medicalization of death, public policy and death practices, disenfranchised grief.

Both grading options. Not repeatable for credit.