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DURKHEIMS SUICIDE

Durkheims book on suicide, first published in 1897, is widely regarded as a classic text, and is essential reading for any student of Durkheims thought and sociological method. While the subject of suicide, the violence of self-destruction, exerts an intrinsic emotional fascination, Durkheim employed an empirical methodology that attempted to build on fact. This book examines the continuing importance of this work for sociologists today, and revisits some of the key issues explored in Suicide.

Written by world renowned Durkheim scholars, the wide-ranging chapters in this book cover such issues as:

• the use of statistics
• explanations of suicide
• anomie
• religion and the morality of suicide.

Together, these studies illustrate both the central importance of Suicide in the teaching of sociology, and the continuing relevance of Durkheims focus on the moral base of society and the importance of the social when attempting to understand modern society. This book will therefore be of vital interest to any serious scholar of Durkheims thought, and to the sociologist looking for a fresh methodological perspective.

W.S.F.Pickering helped to found the British Centre for Durkheimian Studies at the University of Oxford and is currently its General Secretary. His recent publications include Debating Durkheim, On Durkheims Elementary Forms of Religious Life, and Durkheim and Modern Education.

Geoffrey Walford is Reader in Education Policy and a Fellow of Green College at the University of Oxford. His publications include Doing EducationalResearch, Doing Research about Education, and Durkheim and ModernEducation.

ROUTLEDGE STUDIES IN SOCIAL AND POLITICAL THOUGHT

1 HAYEK AND AFTER
Hayekian liberalism as a research programme
Jeremy Shearmur

2 CONFLICTS IN SOCIAL SCIENCE
Edited by Anton van Harskamp

3 POLITICAL THOUGHT OF ANDR GORZ
Adrian Little

4 CORRUPTION, CAPITALISM AND DEMOCRACY
John Girling

5 FREEDOM AND CULTURE IN WESTERN SOCIETY
Hans Blokland

6 FREEDOM IN ECONOMICS
New perspectives in normative analysis
Edited by Jean-Franois Laslier, Marc Fleurbaey, Nicolas Graveland Alain Trannoy

7 AGAINST POLITICS
On government, anarchy and order
Anthony de Jasay

8 MAX WEBER AND MICHEL FOUCAULT
Parallel life works
Arpad Szakolczai

9 THE POLITICAL ECONOMY OF CIVIL SOCIETY AND HUMAN RIGHTS
G.B.Madison

10 ON DURKHEIMS ELEMENTARY FORMS OFRELIGIOUS LIFE
Edited by W.S.F.Pickering, W.Watts Miller and N.J.Allen

11 CLASSICAL INDIVIDUALISM
The supreme importance of each human being
Tibor R.Machan

12 THE AGE OF REASONS
Quixotism, sentimentalism and political economy in eighteenth-century Britain
Wendy Motooka

13 INDIVIDUALISM IN MODERN THOUGHT
From Adam Smith to Hayek
Lorenzo Infantino

14 PROPERTY AND POWER IN SOCIAL THEORY
A study in intellectual rivalry
Dick Pels

15 WITTGENSTEIN AND THE IDEA OF A CRITICAL SOCIAL THEORY
A critique of Giddens, Habermas and Bhaskar
Nigel Pleasants

16 MARXISM AND HUMAN NATURE
Sean Sayers

17 GOFFMAN AND SOCIAL ORGANIZATION
Studies in a sociological legacy
Edited by Greg Smith

18 SITUATING HAYEK
Phenomenology in the neo-liberal project
Mark J.Smith

19 THE READING OF THEORETICAL TEXTS
Peter Ekegren

20 THE NATURE OF CAPITAL
Marx after Foucault
Richard Marsden

21 THE AGE OF CHANCE
Gambling in Western Culture
Gerda Reith

22 REFLEXIVE HISTORICAL SOCIOLOGY
Arpad Szakolczai

23 DURKHEIM AND REPRESENTATIONS
Edited by W.S.F.Pickering

24 THE SOCIAL AND POLITICAL THOUGHT OF NOAM CHOMSKY
Alison Edgley

25 HAYEKS LIBERALISM AND ITS ORIGINS
C.Petsoulas

26 METAPHOR AND THE DYNAMICS OF KNOWLEDGE
Sabine Maasen and Peter Weingart

27 LIVING WITH MARKETS
Jeremy Shearmur

28 DURKHEIMS SUICIDE
A century of research and debate
Edited by W.S.F.Pickering and Geoffrey Walford

DURKHEIMS SUICIDE

A century of research and debate

Edited by W.S.F.Pickering and Geoffrey Walford

Published in conjunction with the British Centre for Durkheimian Studies

London and New York

First published 2000
by Routledge
11 New Fetter Lane, London EC4P 4EE

Simultaneously published in the USA and Canada
by Routledge
29 West 35th Street, New York, NY 10001

Routledge is an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group

This edition published in the Taylor & Francis e-Library, 2003.

Editorial material and selection 2000 W.S.F.Pickering and Geoffrey Walford:
individual chapters the individual contributors

All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reprinted or reproduced or utilized in any form or by any electronic, mechanical, or other means, now known or hereafter invented, including photocopying and recording, or in any information storage or retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publishers.

British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data
A catalogue record for this book is available
from the British Library

Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data
Durkheims Suicide: a century of research and debate/edited by W.S.F.Pickering and Geoffrey Walford
p. cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
1. Durkheim, Emile, 18581917. Suicide. 2. Suicide.
I. Pickering, W.S.F. II. Walford, Geoffrey.

HV6545.D833 2000
394.8dc21
99059080

ISBN 0-203-45927-X Master e-book ISBN

ISBN 0-203-76751-9 (Adobe eReader Format)
ISBN 0-415-20582-4 (Print Edition)

NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS

Philippe Besnard is Research Director at the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) and teaches sociology at the Paris Institut dEtudes Politiques. He heads the Observatoire Sociologique du Changement, a research centre of the Foundation Nationale des Sciences Politiques, and is director of the Revue franaise de sociologie. He founded the Groupe dEtudes Durkheimiennes, an international network of specialists in the history of French sociology, and he has edited several special issues of the Revue franaise de sociologie in this area. His research has also focused on social rhythms and the sociology of taste. Publications include: Divisiondu travail et lien social: la thse de Durkheim un sicle aprs (Presses Universitaires de France, 1993, editor), La Cote des prnoms (Balland, 1998) and Emile Durkheim: Lettres Marcel Mauss (Presses Universitaires de France, 1998, joint editor).

Kevin D.Breault is an associate professor of sociology at Middle Tennessee State University. He has published mainly in the area of deviance and crime. Recent works have appeared in

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