Social Meanings of Suicide

Jack D. Douglas

Social Meanings of Suicide
Format
Hardback
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Country
United States
Published
28 June 2016
Pages
414
ISBN
9780691647869

Social Meanings of Suicide

Jack D. Douglas

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

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