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Discovering Suicide

Studies in the Social Organization of Sudden Death

Palgrave Macmillan

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Table of contents (8 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xvi
  2. Suicide and Sociology

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
    2. Background and Introduction to the Research

      • J. Maxwell Atkinson
      Pages 3-8
    3. The Suicide Problem in Sociology

      • J. Maxwell Atkinson
      Pages 9-32
  3. Suicide and the Social Organization of Sudden Death

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 85-85
    2. Some Relevant Factors in Imputing Suicide

      • J. Maxwell Atkinson
      Pages 110-147
    3. Common-Sense Theorizing about Suicide

      • J. Maxwell Atkinson
      Pages 148-174
    4. Ethnomethodology and the Problem of Categorization

      • J. Maxwell Atkinson
      Pages 175-197
  4. Back Matter

    Pages 198-225

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