Suicide _ Emile Durkheim

Suicide  (A Study In Sociology)

Emile Durkheim

First English Edition Published 1952

Pages : 427

Format PDF : 1.81 MB

Editor’s Preface ix

Editor’s Introduction xiii

Preface xxxiii

Introduction xxxix

BOOK I Extra-Social Factors 1

1 Suicide and Psychopathic States 3

2 Suicide and Normal Psychological States Race, Heredity 30

3 Suicide and Cosmic Factors 53

4 Imitation 74

BOOK II Social Causes and Social Types 95

1 How to Determine Social Causes and Social Types 97

2 Egoistic Suicide 105

3 Egoistic Suicide (continued) 126

4 Altruistic Suicide 175

5 Anomic Suicide 201

6 Individual Forms of the Different Types of Suicide 240

BOOK III General Nature of Suicide as a Social Phenomenon 259

1 The Social Element of Suicide 261

2 Relations of Suicide with Other Social Phenomena 291

3 Practical Consequences 328

Appendices 360

Index 367