Suicide: A Study In Sociology
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Book: Good
Jacket: No dust jacket
Pages: Good
Markings: Previous owner
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Few works in the history of social science have reshaped the discipline as profoundly as Émile Durkheim's Suicide: A Study in Sociology — a work that transformed a deeply personal act into a subject of rigorous scientific inquiry. First published in 1897, this landmark text argues that suicide, far from being a purely individual phenomenon, is powerfully shaped by the social forces that bind — or fail to bind — individuals to their communities. Durkheim meticulously analyses statistical data across different countries and religious groups to construct his famous taxonomy of suicidal types: egoistic, altruistic, anomic, and fatalistic, each rooted in the degree of social integration and moral regulation a society provides. Beyond its empirical findings, Suicide stands as one of the founding texts of modern sociology, illustrating Durkheim's insistence that social facts must be studied as things in their own right, independent of individual psychology. His methodological rigour and theoretical ambition set a template for sociological research that continues to inform the field more than a century later. Written with the cool authority of a scientist and the moral urgency of a social reformer, the work raises questions about belonging, cohesion, and the invisible threads that hold society together — questions that feel as urgent today as they did in the nineteenth century. For anyone seeking to understand the architecture of social life, this remains an indispensable and quietly unsettling masterwork.
Author: Emile Durkheim
Format: Paperback
Genre: Psychology
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: No dust jacket
Pages: Good
Markings: Previous owner
Condition remarks: Condition as shown in image
Few works in the history of social science have reshaped the discipline as profoundly as Émile Durkheim's Suicide: A Study in Sociology — a work that transformed a deeply personal act into a subject of rigorous scientific inquiry. First published in 1897, this landmark text argues that suicide, far from being a purely individual phenomenon, is powerfully shaped by the social forces that bind — or fail to bind — individuals to their communities. Durkheim meticulously analyses statistical data across different countries and religious groups to construct his famous taxonomy of suicidal types: egoistic, altruistic, anomic, and fatalistic, each rooted in the degree of social integration and moral regulation a society provides. Beyond its empirical findings, Suicide stands as one of the founding texts of modern sociology, illustrating Durkheim's insistence that social facts must be studied as things in their own right, independent of individual psychology. His methodological rigour and theoretical ambition set a template for sociological research that continues to inform the field more than a century later. Written with the cool authority of a scientist and the moral urgency of a social reformer, the work raises questions about belonging, cohesion, and the invisible threads that hold society together — questions that feel as urgent today as they did in the nineteenth century. For anyone seeking to understand the architecture of social life, this remains an indispensable and quietly unsettling masterwork.