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Le Suicide: tude de sociologie

Le Suicide: tude de sociologie Reviews Le Suicide: Étude de sociologie by E. Durkheim (1897). According to Professor Durkheim's definition, suicide is every case of death resulting directly or indirectly from a positive or negative act accomplished by the victim, with the knowledge of its producing just that result. It is not an act of the individual, determined exclusively by individual factors. There are 'social' causes of suicide entirely distinct from those which concur in determining suicide in every particular case. For the psychologist, the interest of this book lies mainly in the fact that it affords a positive proof of the impossibility of accounting for anything in social life without presupposing the working of a fundamental law of inter-cerebral action through which thought-the only 'social' matter-is imitatively transmitted from one individual to another. http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Psychological Review American Psychological Association

Le Suicide: tude de sociologie

Cattell, J. McKeen; Baldwin, J. Mark
Psychological Review , Volume 5 (4): 3 – Jul 1, 1898
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0033-295x
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1939-1471
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10.1037/h0069552
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Reviews Le Suicide: Étude de sociologie by E. Durkheim (1897). According to Professor Durkheim's definition, suicide is every case of death resulting directly or indirectly from a positive or negative act accomplished by the victim, with the knowledge of its producing just that result. It is not an act of the individual, determined exclusively by individual factors. There are 'social' causes of suicide entirely distinct from those which concur in determining suicide in every particular case. For the psychologist, the interest of this book lies mainly in the fact that it affords a positive proof of the impossibility of accounting for anything in social life without presupposing the working of a fundamental law of inter-cerebral action through which thought-the only 'social' matter-is imitatively transmitted from one individual to another.

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Psychological Review – American Psychological Association

Published: Jul 1, 1898

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