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urikastov's review against another edition
challenging
dark
informative
reflective
sad
slow-paced
5.0
froggo's review against another edition
буду ли я когда-то читать целиком отца основателя социологии и труд который породил социологию как науку и изобрел вообще планету? думаю что конечно нет, хотя я естественно могла бы ориджинали паблишд 1897 емае
hieronymusbotched's review
4.0
Setting aside the misogyny (if that is, indeed, possible) of a scientific text written in 1897, this remains a stunning account of the social and cultural physics of suicide, a work that finally placed most of the fatal onus on society and not the individual. There is a lot to learn here, whether in subject or in method, and many of the statistics on display (and what they reveal) are genuinely surprising. Why do more people end their lives in summer than winter? Why are economic booms as deadly as busts? It’s all meticulously reasoned out and well worth the time and effort.
A really fascinating read, even if some of the authors assumptions about men and women haven’t aged very well.
A really fascinating read, even if some of the authors assumptions about men and women haven’t aged very well.
sophiejuhlin's review
4.0
Read for Shimer Great Books, 2017. A good one, still applicable, not without issues, but brought some awesome discussions.
sh00's review against another edition
3.0
В чтении работ по зарождающейся социологии есть две крайности - "занимательно, но неправдоподобно" и "скучно, как песок жевать". Причём некоторые книги переходят из первой крайности во вторую, но никогда наоборот. Честно говоря, ближе к концу я начал читать уже способом, ближе к партитурному. Поставлю рядом с Контом и Фрейдом. Устарело, но любопытно.
cazzaclean's review against another edition
3.0
Structuralism has it's place in the grand scheme of Sociology as a discipline, but when we attempt to study social phenomena exclusively through the lens of 'social facts', a part of the story will inevitably get left behind.
chairmanbernanke's review against another edition
4.0
A sociological perspective on the data. Interesting arguments.
ilybinaya's review
4.0
i firstly came to know of Durkheim's anomie theory in my sociology course last semester. and so, out of pure curiosity i purchased the book and it is till half a year later that i finally flip it open as i am working on a group project concerning suicide.
as a sociology book, it is surprisingly very easy to read and the logical flow is very lucid, although at times the latter parts of the book seem a bit muddy and repetitive, and it is mostly due to the extensiveness in explaining and interpreting the data collected in the charts and tables, the same for the elongated passages about what determines suicide, how it happens, the correlation of suicide with external factors, i.e. temperature, seasons, male and female, demographics of it... to admit, i really had little patience to go through every word of those paragraphs, so my main focus would be the theoretical implication of his work.
to start with, we have 3 main types of suicides, they are: egoistical, altruistic and anomic. as for anomie is the most salient part of the book, because it mostly laid the groundwork for the theory itself- that drastic social changes lead to increase in suicide rates. so with the idea that industrialisation and globalisation, capitalism all indirectly leads to an increase in suicide rates, Durkheim explains that it is due to a sickness found in the basis of socialisation. to solve the problem of not integrating melancholy correctly or aptly, it is best to solve the issue between egoistical and altruistic suicide, that being, a society has to be socially integrated to provide a social identity for the individuals to attach to, while not too collectivist to avoid sacrificing oneself for a social goal.
i personally hold no grudges with Durkheim's theory, but i find his more of a rightist view on social change and to only increase social support to avoid suicide a bit too naive. theoretically it is possible, but as he wrote in the book, it is hard to put religion back to regulating people and society, the same is for corporations and groups to fill the vacancy.
as a sociology book, it is surprisingly very easy to read and the logical flow is very lucid, although at times the latter parts of the book seem a bit muddy and repetitive, and it is mostly due to the extensiveness in explaining and interpreting the data collected in the charts and tables, the same for the elongated passages about what determines suicide, how it happens, the correlation of suicide with external factors, i.e. temperature, seasons, male and female, demographics of it... to admit, i really had little patience to go through every word of those paragraphs, so my main focus would be the theoretical implication of his work.
to start with, we have 3 main types of suicides, they are: egoistical, altruistic and anomic. as for anomie is the most salient part of the book, because it mostly laid the groundwork for the theory itself- that drastic social changes lead to increase in suicide rates. so with the idea that industrialisation and globalisation, capitalism all indirectly leads to an increase in suicide rates, Durkheim explains that it is due to a sickness found in the basis of socialisation. to solve the problem of not integrating melancholy correctly or aptly, it is best to solve the issue between egoistical and altruistic suicide, that being, a society has to be socially integrated to provide a social identity for the individuals to attach to, while not too collectivist to avoid sacrificing oneself for a social goal.
i personally hold no grudges with Durkheim's theory, but i find his more of a rightist view on social change and to only increase social support to avoid suicide a bit too naive. theoretically it is possible, but as he wrote in the book, it is hard to put religion back to regulating people and society, the same is for corporations and groups to fill the vacancy.
tcanaleso's review against another edition
clásico ejercicio de pensamiento deductivo, pero algunas hipótesis son muy chistosas.