RT Book
T1 An Application of the Interactionist Perspective to the Study of Suicide Attempters
A1 Easterday, Lois M.
LA English
YR 1974
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1866312480
AB At the Houston, Texas meeting of the American Association of Suicidology in April, 1973, a Houston criminologist threw out a challenge to the sociologists present. Since sociologists seem to be studying suicide as a form of deviance and studying deviance from the interactionist perspective, why, he asked, aren't sociologists studying suicide from the interactionist perspective? No-one present answered his question, and the challenge seemedto be ignored. In the months following the meeting this challenge became more and more intriguing. Therefore, I have chosen this opportunity to study suicide from the interactionist perspective