Suicide (Durkheim book)
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Suicide: A Study in Sociology (French: Le Suicide: Étude de sociologie) is an 1897 book written by French sociologist Émile Durkheim. It was the second methodological study of a social fact in the context of society (it was preceded by a sociological study by a Czech author, later the president of Czechoslovakia: Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk, Der Selbstmord als soziale Massenerscheinung der Gegenwart, 1881, Czech 1904). It is ostensibly a case study of suicide, a publication unique for its time that provided an example of what the sociological monograph should look like.
Author | Émile Durkheim |
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Original title | Le Suicide: Étude de sociologie |
Translators | John A. Spaulding and George Simpson |
Country | France |
Language | French |
Subject | Suicide, sociology |
Publication date | 1897 |
Published in English | 1952 (Routledge & Kegan Paul) |
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According to Durkheim,
the term suicide is applied to all cases of death resulting directly or indirectly from a positive or negative act of the victim himself, which he knows will produce this result.[1]