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Since durkheims classic work on suicide, sociological attention to understanding the roots of selfdestruction has been inconsistent. He tried to identify why this was the case, and came up with four types of suicide though applying them to certain. A study in sociology 2nd edition emile durkheim routle. Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading suicide. Spaulding and george simpson edited with an introduction by george simpson the free press, glencoe, illinois. Durkheims great books are dedicated to the proposition that society transcends the individual. Emile durkheims suicide addresses the phenomenon of suicide and its social causes. A brilliant study, it is regarded as one of the most important books durkheim ever wrote. Download it once and read it on your kindle device, pc, phones or tablets. Emile durkheim is known to many american legal scholars only via the summary of duguits jurisprudence by roscoe pound, who noted that duguit borrowed the notion of social solidarity from durkheim.
A paper on teenage suicide written by two assistant professors of sociology at the university of memphis will be published in the fields flagship journal, the. The great french sociologist and philosopher emile durkheim is best known for his classic book suicide 1897, a landmark in social psychology. Emile durkheim and a study in the sociology of suicide there are many theories of the effects of society on engendering suicide or selfdestructive impulses within the individual. Published in 1897, the book was the first to present a sociological study of suicide, and its conclusion that suicide can have origins in social causes rather than just being due to individual temperament was groundbreaking at the time.
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