Revisiting Durkheim's Sociology of Suicide

This book explicates Durkheim's theory of suicide, reveals its ambiguities and contradictions, and sets forward a new framework to unify its various hypotheses.Since Durkheim never fully integrated his theory, this has led to varying interpretations of Durkheim's theories among scholars, and subsequently, this caused a failure to create a cumulative body of findings about suicide due to inconsiste...