Suicide: A Study in Sociology

✍ Scribed by Emile Durkheim

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2005
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 427
• Series: Routledge Classics
• Edition: 2
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

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 ?mile 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 conclusions, Suicide makes an immense contribution to our understanding to what must surely be one of the least understandable of acts. A brilliant study, it is regarded as one of the most important books Durkheim ever wrote.

✦ Table of Contents

BOOK COVER......Page 1
TITLE......Page 4
COPYRIGHT......Page 5
CONTENTS......Page 8
Editor’s Preface......Page 10
Editor’s Introduction......Page 14
Preface......Page 34
Introduction......Page 40
BOOK I Extra Social Factors......Page 54
1 Suicide and Psychopathic States......Page 56
2 Suicide and Normal Psychological States......Page 83
3 Suicide and Cosmic Factors......Page 106
4 Imitation......Page 127
BOOK II Social Causes and Social Types......Page 148
1 How to Determine Social Causes and Social Types......Page 150
2 Egoistic Suicide......Page 158
3 Egoistic Suicide continued......Page 179
4 Altruistic Suicide......Page 228
5 Anomic Suicide......Page 254
6 Individual Forms of the Different Types of Suicide......Page 293
BOOK III General Nature of Suicide as a Social Phenomenon......Page 312
1 The Social Element of Suicide......Page 314
2 Relations of Suicide with Other Social Phenomena......Page 344
3 Practical Consequences......Page 381
Index......Page 420

✦ Subjects

Социологические дисциплины;Первоисточники по социологии;Дюркгейм Эмиль;