Suicide : a study in sociology / Translated by John A. Spaulding and George Simpson; edited with an introd. by George Simpson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Durkheim, Émile, 1858-1917.

Series:

International library of sociology and social reconstruction (Routledge & Kegan Paul)

International library of sociology and social reconstruction

Standardized Title:

Suicide. English

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Suicide.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (427 p.)

Edition:

2nd ed.

Place of Publication:

London : Routledge & K. Paul, [1952]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

There would be no need for sociology if everyone understood the social frameworks within which we operate. That we do have a connection to the larger picture is largely thanks to the pioneering thinker Émile Durkheim. He recognized that, if anything can explain how we as individuals relate to society, then it is suicide: Why does it happen? What goes wrong? Why is it more common in some places than others? In seeking answers to these questions, Durkheim wrote a work that has fascinated, challenged and informed its readers for over a hundred years. Far-sighted and trail-blazing in its

Contents:

BOOK COVER; TITLE; COPYRIGHT; CONTENTS; Editor's Preface; Editor's Introduction; Preface; Introduction; BOOK I Extra Social Factors; 1 Suicide and Psychopathic States; 2 Suicide and Normal Psychological States; 3 Suicide and Cosmic Factors; 4 Imitation; BOOK II Social Causes and Social Types; 1 How to Determine Social Causes and Social Types; 2 Egoistic Suicide; 3 Egoistic Suicide continued; 4 Altruistic Suicide; 5 Anomic Suicide; 6 Individual Forms of the Different Types of Suicide; BOOK III General Nature of Suicide as a Social Phenomenon; 1 The Social Element of Suicide

2 Relations of Suicide with Other Social Phenomena3 Practical Consequences; Index

Notes:

English edition first published 1952 by Routledge & Kegan Paul.

ISBN:

1-134-47022-3

1-134-47023-1

1-280-14859-4

0-203-99432-9

9780203994320

OCLC:

475959880