Suicide, a Study in Sociology

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Free Press, 1951 - Psychology - 405 pages

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.

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Contents

Editors Introduction
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Preface
35
Introduction
41
Copyright

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About the author (1951)

Emile Durkheim was born in Epinal, France on April 15, 1858. He received a baccalauréats in Letters in 1874 and Sciences in 1875 from the Collège d'Epinal. He became a professor of sociology at the Sorbonne, where he founded and edited the journal L'Annee Sociologique. He is renowned for the breadth of his scholarship; for his studies of primitive religion; for creating the concept of anomie (normlessness); for his study of the division of labor; and for his insistence that sociologists must use sociological (e.g., rates of behavior) rather than psychological data. He published several works including His Suicide in 1897. His notion of community, his view that religion forms the basis of all societies, had a profound impact on the course of community studies. He died on November 15, 1917 at the age of 59.

Bibliographic information

TitleSuicide, a Study in Sociology
Free Press paperback
International Library of Sociology and Social Reconstruction
AuthorÉmile Durkheim
Editionreprint
PublisherFree Press, 1951
Original fromthe University of Michigan
DigitizedAug 25, 2007
ISBN0029086604, 9780029086605
Length405 pages
Subjects ›  › 

Psychology / General
Psychology / Suicide
Social Science / Customs & Traditions
Social Science / General
Social Science / Sociology / General
  
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