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Suicide : a study in sociology / Émile Durkheim.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextLanguage: English Original language: French Series: Routledge classics | Routledge classicsPublication details: London : Routledge, 2002.Description: 464p. ; 20 cmISBN:
  • 9780415278300 (hbk.) :
  • 9780415278317 (pbk.) :
  • 0415278317(pbk.) :
Uniform titles:
  • Suicide. English
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 362.28 DUR
LOC classification:
  • HV6545
Contents:
Book 1: Extra-social factors:- 1. Suicide and psychopathic states--2. Suicide and normal psychological states - Race, heredity--3. Suicide and cosmic factors--4. Imitation--Book 11: 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 111: General Nature of Suicide as a Social Phenomenon:- 1. The social element of suicide--2. Relations of suicide with other social phenomena--3. Practical consequences.
Summary: How can difference in the rate of suicide be explained? That is the central question in this classic work by Emile Durkheim. What interested Durkheim was not so much the reasons for an individual's suicide, but why the disparities between groups?
Holdings
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Long Loan TUS: Midlands, Main Library Athlone Nursing Collection 362.28 DUR (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available 125878
Long Loan TUS: Midlands, Main Library Athlone Nursing Collection 362.28 DUR (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available 125879
Long Loan TUS: Midlands, Main Library Athlone Nursing Collection 362.28 DUR (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available 125880
Long Loan TUS: Midlands, Main Library Athlone General Lending 362.28 DUR (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available 125881

This translation originally published: 1952.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Book 1: Extra-social factors:- 1. Suicide and psychopathic states--2. Suicide and normal psychological states - Race, heredity--3. Suicide and cosmic factors--4. Imitation--Book 11: 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 111: General Nature of Suicide as a Social Phenomenon:- 1. The social element of suicide--2. Relations of suicide with other social phenomena--3. Practical consequences.

How can difference in the rate of suicide be explained? That is the central question in this classic work by Emile Durkheim. What interested Durkheim was not so much the reasons for an individual's suicide, but why the disparities between groups?

Translated from the French.

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