Social Meanings of Suicide

by Jack D. Douglas

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0691028125
• ISBN13: 9780691028125
• Release Date: April 1970
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 414 Pages
• Weight: 0.98 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.4" x 8.5"