Social Meanings of Suicide

✅ This book 📚️ presents 🎁 a review and ➕ criticism of all sociological literature on suicide, from Emile Durkheims influential Suicide (1️⃣8️⃣9️⃣7️⃣) to contemporary writings ✍️ by sociologists who have patterned their own work ⚙️ on Durkheims. 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 Durkheims explanations of suicide rates 🐀 in terms of abstract social meanings are founded 🔍️ on an inadequate and ➕ misleading statistical base. The study of suicidal actions, Douglas argues, requires an examination of the individuals own construction 🏗️ of his 👤👨⬅️ actions. He 👤👨 analyzes revenge, escape, and ➕ sympathy 😮 motives; using diaries, notes 🎶, and ➕ observers reports, he 👤👨 shows how the social meanings of actual cases should be studied.Originally published in 1️⃣9️⃣6️⃣7️⃣.The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print 👣-on-demand technology to again 🔂 make 🛠️ available previously out-of-print 👣 books 📚️ from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books 📚️ while presenting 🎁 them ➡️👥 in durable paperback and ➕ hardcover editions. The goal 🥍 of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access ♿️ to the rich scholarly heritage found 🔍️ in the thousands of books 📚️ published by Princeton University Press since its founding 🔍️ in 1️⃣9️⃣0️⃣5️⃣.

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