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The landmark investigation into suicide and society—now in a new translation
Émile Durkheim, one of the fathers of modern sociology, was the first to suggest that suicide might be as much a response to society as an act of individual despair. When he looked at social, religious, or racial groups that had high incidences of suicide, he discovered that abnormally high or low levels of social integration increase the likelihood of suicide. More than a century after its initial publication, Durkheim’s groundbreaking work continues to fascinate and challenge those seeking to understand one of the least understandable of human acts.
Émile Durkheim, one of the fathers of modern sociology, was the first to suggest that suicide might be as much a response to society as an act of individual despair. When he looked at social, religious, or racial groups that had high incidences of suicide, he discovered that abnormally high or low levels of social integration increase the likelihood of suicide. More than a century after its initial publication, Durkheim’s groundbreaking work continues to fascinate and challenge those seeking to understand one of the least understandable of human acts.
About the Author
Émile Durkheim (1858–1917) founded the French school of sociology. His most famous works include The Division of Labor in Society and The Elementary Forms of Religious Life.
Robin Buss’s most recent translations for Penguin include Dumas’s The Black Tulip.
Richard Sennett is the Bemis Professor of Social Sciences at MIT and a professor of sociology at the London School of Economics.
Robin Buss’s most recent translations for Penguin include Dumas’s The Black Tulip.
Richard Sennett is the Bemis Professor of Social Sciences at MIT and a professor of sociology at the London School of Economics.
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There are two sorts of extra-social causes to which may be attributed, a priori, an effect on the suicide rate: these are organic-psychic tendencies and the nature of the physical environment. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
egotistical suicide, preservation coefficient, conjugal anomie, matrimonial selection, conjugal selection, other départements, military suicide, anomic suicide, civilian suicides, altruistic suicide, annual suicides, inferior societies, same average age, proportional figures, collective tendency, psychopathic states, social rate, widowed people Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
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There are two sorts of extra-social causes to which may be attributed, a priori, an effect on the suicide rate: these are organic-psychic tendencies and the nature of the physical environment. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
egotistical suicide, preservation coefficient, conjugal anomie, matrimonial selection, conjugal selection, other départements, military suicide, anomic suicide, civilian suicides, altruistic suicide, annual suicides, inferior societies, same average age, proportional figures, collective tendency, psychopathic states, social rate, widowed people Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
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- Social Research: Theory, Methods and Techniques by Professor Piergiorgio Corbetta on page 196, and page 208
- Lives and Deaths: Selections from the Works of Edwin S. Shneidman (Series in Death, Dying, and Bereavement) by A. Leenaars on page 197
- Why Suicide?: Answers to 200 of the Most Frequently Asked Questions about Suicide, Attempted S by Eric Marcus in Back Matter
- In the Nineties by John Stokes in Back Matter
- British Idealism and Political Theory by David Boucher on page 118
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