The lives we choose to remember: a quantitative analysis of newspaper obituaries
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Auteurs : Bridget Fowler [Royaume-Uni] ; Esperança BielsaSource :
- The Sociological Review [ 0038-0261 ] ; 2007-05.
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- Bielsa, Bourdieu, Bridget fowler, British citizens, British newspapers, British obits, British obituaries, British papers, British society, British subjects, Cambridge university press, Career nomadism, Chicago university press, Civil servants, Class analysis, Class fraction, Collective memories, Collective memory, Cultural capital, Cultural producers, Daily telegraph, Different newspapers, Dominant class, Dominant fraction, Economic migration, Editorial board, Educational backgrounds, Female obituary subjects, Fowler, Gure, Gures, High proportion, Higher education, Higher professions, Higher proportion, Higher rate, Highest number, Highest proportion, Highest rate, Jewish subjects, Journal compilation, Kegan paul, Large proportion, Latest period, League universities, Lesser degree, Male subjects, Material experiences, Middle class, Middle classes, Military academies, Military academy, Milton keynes, Mobile individuals, Mobility, Newspaper obituaries, Nineteenth century, Obit, Obituary, Obituary subjects, Open university press, Other british newspapers, Other european countries, Other hand, Other newspaper, Other studies, Other words, Oxbridge, Oxford university press, Popular arts, Popular memory, Popular writer, Popular writers, Public school, Public schools, Public sphere, Same class, Sciences sociales, Similar pattern, Social mobility, Social origins, Social reproduction, Sociological review, Sociological review newspaper obituaries, State nobility, Status group, Symbolic power, Third world, Third world countries, Tiny proportion, Total newspaper obituaries, Whole sample, York times.
Abstract
Collective memory is intertwined with remembering the dead. Systematic forgetting affects certain ethnic groups, nationalities and classes disproportionately. This study assesses whom we choose as our heroes by commemorating them in obituaries. It is the first cross‐national, historical approach to this subject. Constant structures are shown in different Western countries over time in terms of the selection of individuals for this honour. In particular, there are still a high proportion of the subjects in British newspapers who have attended private schools and Oxford and Cambridge. The impact of elite higher educational establishments is also evident, on a reduced scale, in Le Monde and The New York Times. Yet certain signs of movement within the obituary world can also be detected: women start to appear in their own right, the Third World begins to be represented and a wider array of occupations have become the source of obituary portraits.
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DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-954X.2007.00702.x
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