Durkeim's book on suicide, first published in 1897, is widely regarded as a classic text, and is essential reading for any student of Durkheim's thought and sociological method. This book examines the continuing importance of Durkheim's methodology. The wide-ranging chapters cover such issues as the use of statistics, explanation of suicide, anomie and religion and the morality of suicide. It will be of vital interest to any serious scholar of Durkheim's thought and to the sociologist looking for a fresh methodological perspective.
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One of the more important contributions of the volume is found in its attempts to bring Le Suicide into the modern context... the discussions are useful and informative. ...The book provides an opportunity to consider some of the less common paths of inquiry and discussion.
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Many undergraduate students in the past, certainly in Britain and the United States, have been introduced to Durkheim's thought by reading his book on suicide (see chapter 12 here). Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
marital indicators, conjugal anomie, suicidogenic currents, fatalistic suicide, familial integration, official suicide statistics, marital regulation, egoistic suicide, altruistic suicide, anomie suicide, widow status, anomic suicide, first marrying, lower suicide rates, status integration, marital statuses Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Emile Durkheim, Durkheim's Suicide, New York, Free Press, United States, University of Chicago Press, Single Married, American Sociological Review, Asian American, Presses Universitaires de France, Native American, World War, African American, Cambridge University Press, Marcel Mauss, Mortality Detail File, Book Two, Princeton University Press, Watts Miller, Hong Kong, The Charles Press, University of California Press, Classic Analyzed, Education Graduate, Frank Cass New!
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Many undergraduate students in the past, certainly in Britain and the United States, have been introduced to Durkheim's thought by reading his book on suicide (see chapter 12 here). Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
marital indicators, conjugal anomie, suicidogenic currents, fatalistic suicide, familial integration, official suicide statistics, marital regulation, egoistic suicide, altruistic suicide, anomie suicide, widow status, anomic suicide, first marrying, lower suicide rates, status integration, marital statuses Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Emile Durkheim, Durkheim's Suicide, New York, Free Press, United States, University of Chicago Press, Single Married, American Sociological Review, Asian American, Presses Universitaires de France, Native American, World War, African American, Cambridge University Press, Marcel Mauss, Mortality Detail File, Book Two, Princeton University Press, Watts Miller, Hong Kong, The Charles Press, University of California Press, Classic Analyzed, Education Graduate, Frank Cass New!
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- Rules of Sociological Method by Emile Durkheim on 15 pages
- The Elementary Forms of Religious Life by Emile Durkheim on 11 pages
- Suicide by Emile Durkheim on 7 pages
- Division of Labour in Society (Contemporary Social Theory) by Emile Durkheim on 7 pages
- The Social Meanings of Suicide by Jack D. Douglas on 6 pages
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- French Social Theory (Published in association with Theory, Culture & Society) by Mike Gane on page 83, and Back Matter
- Hermeneutic Dialogue and Social Science: A Critique of Gadamer and Habermas (Routledge Studies in Social and Political Thought) by Austin Harrington in Front Matter
- Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy, Vol. 3: Descartes - Gender and Science by Edward Craig on page 177
- The Blackwell Companion to Major Social Theorists (Blackwell Companions to Sociology) by George Ritzer on page 250
- Emile Durkheim (Key Sociologists) by Prof Kenneth Thompson in Back Matter
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