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Why Do We Hurt Ourselves?: Understanding Self-Harm in Social Life

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Availability:In StockContributor:Baptiste BrossardPublish date:2018-06-14Pages:210
Language:EnglishPublisher:Indiana University PressISBN-13:9780253036407ISBN-10:253036402UPC:9780253036407Book Category:Social Science, Family & RelationshipsBook Subcategory:Sociology, Life StagesBook Topic:TeenagersSize:8.50 x 5.50 x 0.48 inchesWeight:0.5997Product ID:SCRV3VBHTW

Why does an estimated 5% of the general population intentionally and repeatedly hurt themselves? What are the reasons certain people resort to self-injury as a way to manage their daily lives? In Why Do We Hurt Ourselves, sociologist Baptiste Brossard draws on a five-year survey of self-injurers and suggests that the answers can be traced to social, more than personal, causes. Self-injury is not a matter of disturbed individuals resorting to hurting themselves in the face of individual weaknesses and difficulties. Rather, self-injury is the reaction of individuals to the tensions that compose, day after day, the tumultuousness of their social life and position. Self-harm is a practice that people use to self-control and maintain order--to calm down, or to avoid "going haywire" or "breaking everything." More broadly, through this research Brossard works to develop a perspective on the contemporary social world at large, exploring quests for self-control in modern Western societies.

Language:EnglishPublisher:Indiana University PressISBN-13:9780253036407ISBN-10:253036402UPC:9780253036407Book Category:Social Science, Family & RelationshipsBook Subcategory:Sociology, Life StagesBook Topic:TeenagersSize:8.50 x 5.50 x 0.48 inchesWeight:0.5997Product ID:SCRV3VBHTW

Baptiste Brossard, a French sociologist, is Lecturer at the Australian National University.


Publisher: Indiana University Press

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