Social Meanings of Suicide

Jack D. Douglas

Princeton University Press, 2015

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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

ISBN-13
9780691621173
ISBN-10
0691621179
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Year
2015
Publication date
2015-03-08
Pages
414
Dimensions
235x152x
Weight
576