Fatima Meer

Race and Suicide in South Africa

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Produktbeschreibung

Originally published in 1976 Race and Suicide in South Africa synthesises the two dimensions of suicide: the personal and the social phenomenon. Its approach is Durkheimian in the use of court records, and phenomenological in the examination of actual cases.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 322
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. Oktober 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 531g
• ISBN-13: 9781032326702
• ISBN-10: 1032326700
• Artikelnr.: 64361160

Autorenporträt

Fatima Meer was was a South African writer, academic, screenwriter, and prominent anti-apartheid activist.

Inhaltsangabe

Part 1: Suicide Incidence 1. Methodological Problems in the Study of
Suicide 2. Sociological and Psychological Causes of Suicide 3. The Durban
Records 4. The Incidence of Suicide Part 2: Suicide and Social Status 5.
The Relation Between Suicide, Social Integration and Social Status 6. Race,
Sex and Social Integration 7. Religion and Language as Indices of Social
Status among Indians and their Relation to the Suicide Rate 8. Residential
Areas, Status and Integration 9. Suicide, Age, Status and Integration 10.
Occupation, Status and Integration Part 3: Suicide and Other Social Factors
11. Marital Status, Family and Suicide 12. Temporal Factors 13. Methods
Adopted in Committing Suicide Part 4: Humanizing Statistics 14. The
Probable Factors Precipitating Suicide 15. The Psychological and Emotional
States of Suicides 16. Social Factors 17. The Construction of Suicide
Models 18. Selected Cases in Greater Depth 19. Case Studies 20. Suicide
Notes.