Suicide
Subtitle: a Study in Sociology
Contributors: Simpson, George
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2002
Place of publication: Hoboken
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource] :
Number of pages: 427
ISBN-13: 9780203994320
Subjects: Sociological aspects; Suicide
Description: Originally published in 1897, this is Durkheim's pioneering attempt to offer a sociological explanation for a phenomenon regarded until then as exclusively psychological and individualistic.
Notes: Description based on print version record.
Table of contents: title: BOOK COVER; TITLE; COPYRIGHT; CONTENTS; Editor's Preface; Editor's Introduction; Preface; Introduction; BOOK I Extra Social Factors; 1 Suicide and Psychopathic States; 2 Suicide and Normal Psychological States; 3 Suicide and Cosmic Factors; 4 Imitation; BOOK II Social Causes and Social Types; 1 How to Determine Social Causes and Social Types; 2 Egoistic Suicide; 3 Egoistic Suicide continued; 4 Altruistic Suicide; 5 Anomic Suicide; 6 Individual Forms of the Different Types of Suicide; BOOK III General Nature of Suicide as a Social Phenomenon; 1 The Social Element of Suicide.; title: 2 Relations of Suicide with Other Social Phenomena3 Practical Consequences; Index.