Prosocial practices of mortality interpretation: racial-anthropological and sociocultural aspects

Background. The perception of mortality is consistent with pro-social practices that determine social development. Combining the tools of racial-anthropological and sociocultural approaches makes it possible to identify the universal characteristics and interpretations of mortality in modern society...

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Main Authors: I. E. Levchenko, O. A. Polyushkevich
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Language:Russian
Published: Scientific Сentre for Family Health and Human Reproduction Problems 2022-07-01
Series:Acta Biomedica Scientifica
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Online Access:https://www.actabiomedica.ru/jour/article/view/3552
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O. A. Polyushkevich
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description Background. The perception of mortality is consistent with pro-social practices that determine social development. Combining the tools of racial-anthropological and sociocultural approaches makes it possible to identify the universal characteristics and interpretations of mortality in modern society.Aim of the study: identification of pro-social practices and specific interpretations of mortality through the unity and opposition of the racial-anthropological and socio-cultural aspects of social reproduction.Methods. A mass survey of the population of the Russian Federation (n = 1200) aged 18 to 65 living in different regions of the Russian Federation (55 % women, 45 % men) was conducted. A content analysis of media and Internet materials was performed to fix estimates of death and mortality in the Russian Federation over the past five years (n = 1456) in publications or informational messages.Results. The impact of the anthropological and sociocultural aspects was manifested through how and what people think about death, as well as how death exists in a social context. The personal-psychological context of the perception of death and mortality, the memorialization of places of death and the socio-economic and cultural-organizational practices of death determine the personal and social forms of interpretation of mortality. Content analysis of media materials and the Internet revealed a significant increase in the volume and frequency of attention to death and mortality. This is due to the situation with the pandemic, as well as the actualization of the fears of Russians about their well-being and social conditions for accepting and assessing death and mortality.Conclusion. Prosocial practices, being a personal experience of experiencing and a tool for social inclusion in acceptable norms of behavior, influence sociocultural meanings and anthropological conditions for the perception of mortality.
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spelling doaj.art-9c0727509e5243b1aec7d880b040e2c52024-03-28T07:49:26ZrusScientific Сentre for Family Health and Human Reproduction ProblemsActa Biomedica Scientifica2541-94202587-95962022-07-0173647410.29413/ABS.2022-7.3.82344Prosocial practices of mortality interpretation: racial-anthropological and sociocultural aspectsI. E. Levchenko0O. A. Polyushkevich1Ural Federal University named after the first President of Russia B.N. Yeltsin Irkutsk State University Background. The perception of mortality is consistent with pro-social practices that determine social development. Combining the tools of racial-anthropological and sociocultural approaches makes it possible to identify the universal characteristics and interpretations of mortality in modern society.Aim of the study: identification of pro-social practices and specific interpretations of mortality through the unity and opposition of the racial-anthropological and socio-cultural aspects of social reproduction.Methods. A mass survey of the population of the Russian Federation (n = 1200) aged 18 to 65 living in different regions of the Russian Federation (55 % women, 45 % men) was conducted. A content analysis of media and Internet materials was performed to fix estimates of death and mortality in the Russian Federation over the past five years (n = 1456) in publications or informational messages.Results. The impact of the anthropological and sociocultural aspects was manifested through how and what people think about death, as well as how death exists in a social context. The personal-psychological context of the perception of death and mortality, the memorialization of places of death and the socio-economic and cultural-organizational practices of death determine the personal and social forms of interpretation of mortality. Content analysis of media materials and the Internet revealed a significant increase in the volume and frequency of attention to death and mortality. This is due to the situation with the pandemic, as well as the actualization of the fears of Russians about their well-being and social conditions for accepting and assessing death and mortality.Conclusion. Prosocial practices, being a personal experience of experiencing and a tool for social inclusion in acceptable norms of behavior, influence sociocultural meanings and anthropological conditions for the perception of mortality.https://www.actabiomedica.ru/jour/article/view/3552anthropological approachsociocultural approachdeathmortalityanthroposociologyprosocial practicesprosocial interpretations
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Prosocial practices of mortality interpretation: racial-anthropological and sociocultural aspects
Acta Biomedica Scientifica
anthropological approach
sociocultural approach
death
mortality
anthroposociology
prosocial practices
prosocial interpretations
title Prosocial practices of mortality interpretation: racial-anthropological and sociocultural aspects
title_full Prosocial practices of mortality interpretation: racial-anthropological and sociocultural aspects
title_fullStr Prosocial practices of mortality interpretation: racial-anthropological and sociocultural aspects
title_full_unstemmed Prosocial practices of mortality interpretation: racial-anthropological and sociocultural aspects
title_short Prosocial practices of mortality interpretation: racial-anthropological and sociocultural aspects
title_sort prosocial practices of mortality interpretation racial anthropological and sociocultural aspects
topic anthropological approach
sociocultural approach
death
mortality
anthroposociology
prosocial practices
prosocial interpretations
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