ABSTRACT
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 wide-ranging chapters cover such issues as the use of statistics, explanation of suicide, anomie and religion and the morality of suicide. It will be of vital interest to any serious scholar of Durkheim's thought and to the sociologist looking for a fresh methodological perspective.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
chapter 3|14 pages
THE DECONSTRUCTION OF SOCIAL ACTION
The ‘reversal’ of Durkheimian methodology from The Rules to Suicide
chapter 10|23 pages
MARRIAGE AND SUICIDE
Testing the Durkheimian theory of marital regulation a century later
chapter 11|24 pages
SOCIAL INTEGRATION AND MARITAL STATUS
A multi-variate individual-level study of 30,157 suicides
