Suicide
by Emile Durkheim
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Author: Emile DurkheimEditor: George Simpson
Translator: John A. Spaulding
Edition: Paperback
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Unknown); English (Published)
Published: 1997-02-01
ISBN: 0684836327
Number of pages: 416
Publisher: Free Press
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Book Review: Great book and a great edition
Summary: 5 Stars
Not sure what the cover is meant to construe, perhaps its a eureka! moment or something, anyway, this is a great book and this is a great edition of the book. The contents are clear, there is a good index included for students or anyone who needs to be able to make quick references to specific parts of the text.
This is a prior really of the first sociological/social explanations for significant individual behaviour using the example of suicide.
As the blurb says this was a phenomenon previously only considered as being psychological in nature and Durkheim doesnt ignore this, there is a good opening chapter on "extra-social" explanations and their significance, Durkheim isnt dogmatic and doesnt dismiss these out of hand but the second and final chapters deal mainly with is own theories of social construction, social interaction, pressure and consequences.
The ideas have in many ways been superseded and it cant be described as total prescient to any current/contemporary scenario as it once was (in this respect there are other sociological and psychological books dealing with fragmentation, identity and disparity). However it is a classic in sociological reasoning and explanation which students, professionals or interested readers could benefit from reading.
The text isnt as accessible and readable as some of the books in the routledge classics range but bearing with it is rewarding, its not a novel afterall but it can give some insights into the day to day and the nature of crisis and individual consequences.
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