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Addiction
Aggression
Alcoholism
Altruistic suicide
Anomie
Attempt
Author_Jack D. Douglas
Blame
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Cause of death
Criminology
Criticism
Death
Death anxiety (psychology)
Death drive
Depression (mood)
Desertion
Deviance (sociology)
Ecological fallacy
Embarrassment
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Externalization
Extraversion and introversion
Fatalism
Frustration
Grief
Inferiority complex
Loneliness
Mental breakdown
Mental disorder
Moral evil
Mourning
Murder
Murder–suicide
Narcissism
Official statistics
Perversion
Pessimism
Phenomenon
Prostitution
Psychoanalysis
Psychopathy
Psychosis
Psychotherapy
Role conflict
Sadomasochism
Secondary poverty
Self-denial
Self-destructive behavior
Self-image
Social conflict
Social disorganization theory
Social issue
Social psychiatry
Social rejection
Social theory
Sociology
Statistic
Suicidal ideation
Suicidal person
Suicide
Suicide (book)
Suicide attempt
Suicide bridge
Suicide crisis
Suicide epidemic
Suicide note
Suicide prevention
Suspicious death
Theory
Unemployment
Voodoo death
Émile Durkheim
Product details
- ISBN 9780691647869
- Weight: 482g
- Dimensions: 152 x 235mm
- Publication Date: 19 Apr 2016
- Publisher: Princeton University Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Hardback
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This book presents a review and criticism of all sociological literature on suicide, from Emile Durkheim's influential Suicide (1897) to contemporary writings by sociologists who have patterned their own work on Durkheim's. Douglas points out fundamental weaknesses in the structural-functional study of suicide, and offers an alternative theoretical approach. He demonstrates the unreliability of official statistics on suicide and contends that Durkheim's explanations of suicide rates in terms of abstract social meanings are founded on an inadequate and misleading statistical base. The study of suicidal actions, Douglas argues, requires an examination of the individual's own construction of his actions. He analyzes revenge, escape, and sympathy motives; using diaries, notes, and observers' reports, he shows how the social meanings of actual cases should be studied. Originally published in 1967. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press.
These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.
