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Suicide: A Study in Sociology (French: Le Suicide: Étude de sociologie) is an 1897 book written by French sociologist Émile Durkheim.It was the second methodological study of a social fact in the context of society (it was preceded by a sociological study by a Czech author, later the president of Czechoslovakia: Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk, Der Selbstmord als soziale Massenerscheinung der ...
Interviews with former American slaves included statements such as "slaves get the masters they deserve" and "I was so bad I needed the whipping", demonstrating the justification that slaves had no right to expect kindness or compassion because of their status in society and the devastating mental effects from social death.
First page of an early printed edition of the Suda. The Suda or Souda (/ ˈ s uː d ə /; Medieval Greek: Σοῦδα, romanized: Soûda; Latin: Suidae Lexicon) [1] is a large 10th-century Byzantine encyclopedia of the ancient Mediterranean world, formerly attributed to an author called Soudas (Σούδας) or Souidas (Σουίδας).
The Blackwell Companion to the Sociology of Families. Hoboken, NJ and Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell, 2003. ISBN 0-631-22158-1; Randall Collins and Scott Coltrane (2000): Sociology of Marriage and the Family: Gender, Love, and Property. Chicago: Wadsworth. Corsaro, William (2005). The Sociology of Childhood. Thousand Oaks, CA: Pine Forge Press.
Shneidman is considered to be the father of suicidology. Shneidman's definition of suicide is a conscious act of self-induced annihilation, best understood as a multidimensional malaise in a needful individual who defines an issue for which suicide is perceived as the best solution.
Norman Morrison was an American anti-war activist. On November 2, 1965, Morrison doused himself in kerosene and set himself on fire below the office of Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara at the Pentagon [22] to protest United States involvement in the Vietnam War. North Vietnam named a Hanoi street after him, and issued a postage stamp in his ...
Suinae is a subfamily of artiodactyl mammals that includes several of the extant members of Suidae and their closest relatives – the domestic pig and related species, such as babirusas. Several extinct species within the Suidae are classified in subfamilies other than Suinae.
Suidae is a family of artiodactyl mammals which are commonly called pigs, hogs, or swine. In addition to numerous fossil species, 18 extant species are currently recognized (or 19 counting domestic pigs and wild boars separately), classified into between four and eight genera .