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The Idea of Suicide

Contagion, Imitation, and Cultural Diffusion

Medium: Buch
ISBN: 978-0-367-67065-8
Verlag: Routledge
Erscheinungstermin: 18.12.2020
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This book is about a new theory of suicide as cultural mimesis, or as an idea that is internalized from culture. Written as part of a new, critical focus in suicidology, this volume moves away from the dominant, strictly scientific understanding of suicide as the result of a mental disorder, and towards positioning suicide as an anthropologically salient, community-driven phenomenon. Written by a leading researcher in the field, this volume presents a conception of suicide as culturally scripted, and it demonstrates how suicide becomes a cultural idiom of distress that for some can become a normative option.


Produkteigenschaften


  • Artikelnummer: 9780367670658
  • Medium: Buch
  • ISBN: 978-0-367-67065-8
  • Verlag: Routledge
  • Erscheinungstermin: 18.12.2020
  • Sprache(n): Englisch
  • Auflage: 1. Auflage 2020
  • Serie: Researching Social Psychology
  • Produktform: Kartoniert
  • Gewicht: 223 g
  • Seiten: 144
  • Format (B x H x T): 152 x 229 x 8 mm
  • Ausgabetyp: Kein, Unbekannt
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Preface

Chapter One: Introduction: Human Imitation as Culture

Chapter Two: On Suicide

Chapter Three: Social Epidemics

Chapter Four: Culture and Suicide

Chapter Five: Cultural Mimesis in Suicide: A Return to Diffusion and Gabriel Tarde

Chapter Six: Afterword