Emile Durkheim: Le Suicide One Hundred Years Later [Hardcover]

David Lester (Editor)

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• Hardcover: 330 pages
• Publisher: Charles Pr Pub (September 1994)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0914783734
• ISBN-13: 978-0914783732
• Product Dimensions: 9.3 x 6.3 x 1.2 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.6 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,682,336 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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5.0 out of 5 stars A must for those interested in understanding suicide, January 18, 2001

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This review is from: Emile Durkheim: Le Suicide One Hundred Years Later (Hardcover)

This landmark volume honors the 100th anniversary of the publication of Emile Durkheim's milestone book, Le Suicide, often described as one of the three most important works ever written in the social sciences. Lester and the 16 contributors evaluate and reassess the great French sociologist's contributions to social and behavioral science in the light of present-day knowledge and assumptions. Readers who wonder whether Durkheim is still relevant today, whether his work has stood the test of time, will not want to miss this centennial treasury.

CONTENTS:

Preface (1) Suicide and Social Theory (2) Was Durkheim Right? A Critical Survey of the Empirical Literature (3) Durkheim's Heavy Hand in the Sociological Study of Suicide (4) Who Committed Suicide? (5) Missing Features in Durkheim's Theory of Suicide (6) Durkheim and the Macrosociological Study of Suicide (7) "Suicide and the Birth Rate": A Translation and Commentary (8) Durkheim and the Immunity of Women to (9) Applying Durkheim's Typology to Individual Suicides (10) Reformulating Durkheim: 100 Years Later (11) Self-Harm During the Nineteenth Century (12) Bringing Durkheim into the Twenty-first (13) Durkheim's Suicide Theory: Its Applicability to Native Americans (14) A Random Walk Hypothesis for Durkheim's Theory of Suicide

5.0 out of 5 stars Le Suicide One Hundred Years Later by David Lester, November 17, 2009

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This review is from: Emile Durkheim: Le Suicide One Hundred Years Later (Hardcover)

Very good review of Durkheim's classic from the perspective of the contemporary sociological research achievements.