Suicide : a study in sociology

Cover Page Title Page Copyright Page CONTENTS EDITOR'S PREFACE EDITOR'S INTRODUCTION THE AETIOLOGY OF SUICIDE PREFACE INTRODUCTION BOOK ONE EXTRA SOCIAL FACTORS CHAPTER 1 SUICIDE AND PSYCHOPATHIC STATES CHAPTER 2 SUICIDE AND NORMAL PSYCHOLOGICAL STATES-RACE HEREDITY CHAPTER 3 SUICIDE AND COSMIC FACTORS CHAPTER 4 IMITATION BOOK TWO SOCIAL CAUSES AND SOCIAL TYPES CHAPTER 1 HOW TO DETERMINE SOCIAL CAUSES AND SOCIAL TYPES CHAPTER 2 EGOISTIC SUICIDE CHAPTER 3 EGOISTIC SUICIDE continued CHAPTER 4 ALTRUISTIC SUICIDE CHAPTER 5 ANOMIC SUICIDE. CHAPTER 6 INDIVIDUAL FORMS OF THE DIFFERENT TYPES OF SUICIDEBOOK THREE GENERAL NATURE OF SUICIDE AS A SOCIAL PHENOMENON THE SOCIAL ELEMENT OF SUICIDE CHAPTER 2 RELATIONS OF SUICIDE WITH OTHER SOCIAL PHENOMENA CHAPTER 3 PRACTICAL CONSEQUENCES Appendices DETAILED TABLE OF CONTENTS. 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 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. A classic book about the phenomenon of suicide and its social causes written by one of the world's most influential sociologists. Emile Durkheim's Suicide addresses the phenomenon of suicide and its social causes. Written by one of the world's most influential sociologists, this classic argues that suicide primarily results from a lack of integration of the individual into society. Suicide provides readers with an understanding of the impetus for suicide and its psychological impact on the victim, family, and society. "Emile Durkheim's Suicide addresses the phenomenon of suicide and its social causes. Written by one of the world's most influential sociologists, this classic argues that suicide primarily results from a lack of integration of the individual into society. Suicide provides readers with an understanding of the impetus for suicide and its psychological impact on the victim, family, and society"--Back cover THERE are two sorts of extra-social causes to which one may, a priori, attribute an influence on the suicide-rate; they are organic-psychic dispositions and the nature of the physical environment. Originally published in 1897, this is Durkheim's pioneering attempt to offer a sociological explanation for a phenomenon regarded until then as exclusively psychological and individualistic. Translated from French, this classic provides readers with an understanding of the impetus for suicide and its psychological impact on the victim, family, and society One of Durkheim's most important works, serving as a model in social theory