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There would be no need for sociology if everyone understood the social frameworks within which we operate. That we do have a connection to the larger picture is largely thanks to the pioneering thinker ?mile Durkheim. He recognized that, if anything can explain how we as individuals relate to society, then it is suicide: Why does it happen? What goes wrong? Why is it more common in some places than others? In seeking answers to these questions, Durkheim wrote a work that has fascinated, challenged and informed its readers for over a hundred years. Far-sighted and trail-blazing in its conclusions, Suicide makes an immense contribution to our understanding to what must surely be one of the least understandable of acts. A brilliant study, it is regarded as one of the most important books Durkheim ever wrote. BOOK COVER......Page 1 TITLE......Page 4 COPYRIGHT......Page 5 CONTENTS......Page 8 Editor’s Preface......Page 10 Editor’s Introduction......Page 14 Preface......Page 34 Introduction......Page 40 BOOK I Extra Social Factors......Page 54 1 Suicide and Psychopathic States......Page 56 2 Suicide and Normal Psychological States......Page 83 3 Suicide and Cosmic Factors......Page 106 4 Imitation......Page 127 BOOK II Social Causes and Social Types......Page 148 1 How to Determine Social Causes and Social Types......Page 150 2 Egoistic Suicide......Page 158 3 Egoistic Suicide continued......Page 179 4 Altruistic Suicide......Page 228 5 Anomic Suicide......Page 254 6 Individual Forms of the Different Types of Suicide......Page 293 BOOK III General Nature of Suicide as a Social Phenomenon......Page 312 1 The Social Element of Suicide......Page 314 2 Relations of Suicide with Other Social Phenomena......Page 344 3 Practical Consequences......Page 381 Index......Page 420 Annotation There would be no need for sociology if everyone understood the social frameworks within which we operate. That we dohave a connection to the larger picture is largely thanks to the pioneering thinker Émile Durkheim. He recognized that, if anything can explain how we as individuals relate to society, then it is suicide: Why does it happen? What goes wrong? Why is it more common in some places than others? In seeking answers to these questions, Durkheim wrote a work that has fascinated, challenged and informed its readers for over a hundred years. Far-sighted and trail-blazing in its conclusions, Suicidemakes an immense contribution to our understanding to what must surely be one of the least understandable of acts. A brilliant study, it is regarded as one of the most important books Durkheim ever wrote There would be no need for sociology if everyone understood the social frameworks within which we operate. That we do have a connection to the larger picture is largely thanks to the pioneering thinker Émile Durkheim. He recognized that, if anything can explain how we as individuals relate to society, then it is suicide: Why does it happen? What goes wrong? Why is it more common in some places than others? In seeking answers to these questions, Durkheim wrote a work that has fascinated, challenged and informed its readers for over a hundred years. Far-sighted and trail-blazing in its conclusions, Suicide makes an immense contribution to our understanding to what must surely be one of the least understandable of acts. A brilliant study, it is regarded as one of the most important books Durkheim ever wrote. Education, Politics & IR, Sociology & Social Policy BOOK COVER 1 TITLE 4 COPYRIGHT 5 CONTENTS 8 Editor’s Preface 10 Editor’s Introduction 14 Preface 34 Introduction 40 BOOK I Extra Social Factors 54 1 Suicide and Psychopathic States 56 2 Suicide and Normal Psychological States 83 3 Suicide and Cosmic Factors 106 4 Imitation 127 BOOK II Social Causes and Social Types 148 1 How to Determine Social Causes and Social Types 150 2 Egoistic Suicide 158 3 Egoistic Suicide continued 179 4 Altruistic Suicide 228 5 Anomic Suicide 254 6 Individual Forms of the Different Types of Suicide 293 BOOK III General Nature of Suicide as a Social Phenomenon 312 1 The Social Element of Suicide 314 2 Relations of Suicide with Other Social Phenomena 344 3 Practical Consequences 381 Index 420 Originally published in 1897, this is Durkheim's pioneering attempt to offer a sociological explanation for a phenomenon regarded until then as exclusively psychological and individualistic. How can difference in the rate of suicide be explained? That is the central question in this classic work by the father of modern sociology, Emile Durkheim