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Unit-16: Theory of Suicide
3. Egoistic suicide notes
4. Fatalistic suicide
16.3 Keywords
1. suicide: A death which is a result of and activity done knowingly for self-destruction or is a
result of such stagnancy about the terrible results of which, he has knowledge beforehand,
comes in the category of suicide.
16.4 review Questions
1. Describe Durkheim’s theory related to suicide.
2. On analysis of various events of suicide, Durkheim has divided suicide into which three
main parts?
3. On what has Durkheim’s creation “Le Suicide” thrown light upon?
answers: self assessment
1. Analysing
2. Psychological complaints
3. Great book
16.5 further readings
Books 1. Sociological Theory—Abraham and Morgan
2. The structure of Sociological Thought—J.H. Turner
3. Sociological Thought—Ravindranath Mukharji
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