Durkheim's Suicide: A Century of Research and Debate

ISBN-13: 9780415205825 / Angielski / Twarda / 2000 / 224 str.

W. S. F. Pickering; Geoffrey Walford

Opis

Durkeim's book on suicide, first published in 1897 is widely regarded as a classic text, and is essential reading for any student of Durkheim's thought and sociological method. This book examines the continuing importance of Durkheim's methodology. The chapters cover such issues as the use of statistics, explanation of suicide, anomi and religion and the morality of suicide. This book should be of interest to scholars of Durkheim's thought and sociologists looking for a fresh methodological perspective.

Spis treści

1. Introduction  W.S.F. Pickering and Geoffrey Walford  2. Emile Durkheim's contribution to the sociological explanation of suicide  Luigi Tomasi  3. The deconstruction of social action: the 'reversal' of Durkheimian methodology from The Rules to Suicide  Mike Gane  4. Durkheim's altrusitic and fatalistic suicide after the first one hundred years Christie Davies and Mark Neal  5. Suicide, statistics and sociology: assessing Douglas' critique of Durkheim  John Varty  6. Reading the conclusion: Suicide, morality and religion  W.S.F. Pickering  7. The moral discourse of Durkheim's Suicide  William Ramp  8. The fortunes of Durkheim's Suicide: reception and legacy  Philippe Besnard  9. The reception of Suicide in Russia  Alexander Gofman  10. Marriage and suicide: testing the Durkheimian theory of marital regulation a century later  Philippe Besnard  11. Social integration and marital status: a multivariative individual level study of 30,157 suicides  K.D. Breault and Augustine J. Kposowa  12. Teaching Durkheim's Suicide: a symposium  Christie Davies, Mark Neal, John Varty, Geoffrey Walford, Robert Alun Jones and William Ramp

O autorze

W.S.F. Pickering, Geoffrey Walford