41.3
The Sociology of Death: The Case of the Armed Forces

Thursday, July 17, 2014: 11:00 AM
Room: Booth 50
Oral Presentation
Gerhard KUEMMEL , Cntr Military History & Social Sciences, Germany
Julius HESS , Cntr Military History & Social Sciences, Germany
The paper addresses death in the military and looks at the various ways in which death is addressed in the military. The analysis of the politics of death requires the identification of the functions such death politics should serve and focusses, inter alia, on rituals that are used to implement such death politics.