Publication details
Smrt a nesmrtelnost: Sociální reprezentace smrti
| Title in English | Death and Deathlesness: Social Representations of Death |
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| Year of publication | 2008 |
| Type | Monograph |
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| Description | Skilful living in the present brings a pleasant life in the future. This sentence expresses in short the results of the research. The basic structure of common sense is formed both by an ethical principle: the experiencing is dependent on the acting within dimension of wholesome-unwholesome, and by a quality of re-becoming that overlaps the horizon of a particular person`s life. Cultural store of knowledge, geographically situated in Sri Lanka, equipped respondents as well with commonly shared inventory of world explanations, knowledge how it is, as with broad palette of death coping ways, in the everyday life trained and applied proficiencies of knowing-how. These applied proficiencies together with the purpose of their practicing differentiate particular types of social representations of death in Sri Lanka. Owing to the fact that the research subject is observed not only in different social groups, but also in various cultures of the Czech Republic and Sri Lanka, the final findings as well as the whole research process are transcultural verifications, of both, grounded theory principles and theory of social representations. |