Suicide: A Study in Sociology by John A. Spaulding & George Simpson & Emile Durkheim

Suicide: A Study in Sociology by John A. Spaulding & George Simpson & Emile Durkheim

Author:John A. Spaulding & George Simpson & Emile Durkheim [Spaulding, John A.]
Language: eng
Format: azw3
Publisher: Free Press
Published: 2010-05-11T04:00:00+00:00


CHAPTER 4 ALTRUISTIC SUICIDE

IN THE order of existence, no good is measureless. A biological quality can only fulfill the purposes it is meant to serve on condition that it does not transgress certain limits. So with social phenomena. If, as we have just seen, excessive individuation leads to suicide, insufficient individuation has the same effects. When man has become detached from society, he encounters less resistance to suicide in himself, and he does so likewise when social integration is too strong.



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