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Suicide : a study in sociology / by Emile Durkheim ; translated by John A. Spaulding and George Simpson ; edited with an introduction by George Simpson.

Title
Suicide : a study in sociology / by Emile Durkheim ; translated by John A. Spaulding and George Simpson ; edited with an introduction by George Simpson.
Author
Durkheim, Émile, 1858-1917
Publication
New York : Free Press, 1966, c1951.

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Additional Authors
  • Spaulding, John A.
  • Simpson, George, 1908-
Description
405 p. : maps; 21 cm.
Uniform Title
Suicide, étude de sociologie. English
Alternative Title
Suicide, étude de sociologie.
Subject
  • Suicide
  • Suicide > Sociological aspects
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
Book One. Extra-social factors. -- Suicide and psychopathic states -- Suicide and normal psychological states -- race, heredity -- Suicide and cosmic factors -- Imitation. -- Book Two. Social causes and social types. -- How to determine social causes and social types -- Egoistic suicide -- Altruistic suicide -- Anomic suicide -- Individual forms of the different types of suicide. -- Book Three. General nature of suicide as a social phenomena. -- The social elements of suicide -- Relations of suicide with other social phenomena -- Practical consequences.
ISBN
0029086604
OCLC
  • 492869
  • SCSB-9905636
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library