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The Social Meanings Of Suicide
by Jack D. Douglas

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• Language: english
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• ISBN: 9780691028125 (0691028125)
• Release date: April 21, 1970
• Genres: psychology
• Author: Jack D. Douglas
• Format: paperback

About The Book

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 approach. He demonstrates the unreliability of official statistics on suicide and contends that Durkheim’s explanations of suicide rates in terms of abstract social meanings are founded on an inadequate and misleading statistical base. The study of suicidal actions, Douglas argues, requires an examination of the individual’s own construction of his actions. He analyzes revenge, escape, and sympathy motives; using diaries, notes, and observers’ reports, he shows how the social meanings of actual cases should be studied.

Originally published in 1967.

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