The Idea of Suicide

Contagion, Imitation, and Cultural Diffusion

Michael J. Kral (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

134 Seiten

2019
Routledge (Verlag)
978-0-367-02659-2 (ISBN)

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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.

Michael J. Kral is an associate professor in the School of Social Work at Wayne State University, USA.

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

Erscheinungsdatum	12.02.2019
Reihe/Serie	Researching Social Psychology
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	296 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Allgemeine Psychologie
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Klinische Psychologie
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Sozialpsychologie
	Medizin / Pharmazie ► Medizinische Fachgebiete ► Psychiatrie / Psychotherapie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-10	0-367-02659-7 / 0367026597
ISBN-13	978-0-367-02659-2 / 9780367026592
Zustand	Neuware