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Contents
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Anxiety as the experience of anomie inferences drawn from suicide biographies | 21 |
Danger anxiety and courage suicide black and white | 35 |
The city matrix of civilization | 51 |
The location of anomie a culture case study of urbanization Buffalo New York 18101910 | 58 |
Revolution aborted society sacralized class war in Buffalo 19101920 | 78 |
Crime as a response to the anomie of war the configuration of arrests in Buffalo 18301970 | 105 |
The bitter harvest of deterrence anomie revolution and war in Europe 18481918 | 143 |
War as suicide anomie and secular sacrifice in World War I | 160 |
War as suicide Nazism the deathwish institutionalized | 177 |
War social cohesion and anomie reflections on the power of danger | 199 |
Anomie and force the case of Rome | 209 |
On Durkheim Suicide and Anomie Correspondence Between Isabel CaryLundberg and Elwin H Powell | 231 |
Notes | 239 |
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| Title | The Design of Discord: Studies of Anomie |
| Author | Elwin Humphreys Powell |
| Publisher | Transaction Publishers, 1988 |
| ISBN | 1412836492, 9781412836494 |
| Length | 283 pages |
| Subjects | › › Social Science / Social Work Social Science / Sociology / General |
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