Ch 2
Chapter 2: Learning About Death ~socialization~
Learning About Death
– Understanding of death evolves as experiences stimulate reevaluation of previously held
knowledge, beliefs, and attitudes
– Stringing together concepts
– Associations of language and death
Mature Concept of Death
– Universality
– Irreversibility
– Nonfunctionality
– Causality
– Personal Mortality
– Nonempirical ideas
