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