Siberian Federal University 
- Issue
- Journal of Siberian Federal University. Humanities & Social Sciences. 2015 8 (11)
- Authors
- Lvov, Denis V.; Zabelina, Ekaterina Iu.
- Contact information
- Lvov, Denis V.:Siberian Federal University 79 Svobodny, Krasnoyarsk, 660041, Russia; E-mail: ; Zabelina, Ekaterina Iu.:Siberian Federal University 79 Svobodny, Krasnoyarsk, 660041, Russia; E-mail:
- Keywords
- attitude to death; attitude to immortality; death avoidance; death rituals and traditions
- Abstract
The article analyses the issues of social attitude to death and immortality. Its first part gives a detailed view on the issue of death as a social phenomenon in the cultural and historical context. Its second part provides with the results of sociological study of Siberian Federal University students’ opinion. Analysis of the obtained data made it possible to distinguish 2 significantly different aspects of the attitude to death. The authors conclude that the strategy of death avoidance dominates at the level of surface consciousness whereas the strategy of collective ritual caused by existential experiences, on the contrary, dominates on a deeper level. The explanation for this ambivalence of the student mass consciousness undoubtedly requires further research
- Pages
- 2713-2720
- Paper at repository of SibFU
- https://elib.sfu-kras.ru/handle/2311/19936
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