T h e four types of suicide that Durkheim distinguished are implicit in hi5 concept of homo duplex and the view of socialization this entailed. T h e individual requires both repression of his passions and direction toward socicty: too much or too little of either of these two processes leads to suicide and each of the four types represents one type of such failure in socialization. Internal evidence from Suicide is used to show that Durkheim did in fact derive the suicide typology from his view of man. From the standpoint of this interpretation, those by Parsons and Douglas and by commentators who equate the anomic and egoistic suicide types are revicwed and their misunderstandings noted. Finally, the interpretation givcn is used to shed light on other aspects of Dltrkheim's thought, especially some that are disputed in the secondary literature.

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This article reports the result of a test of Melvin Kohn's hypothesis that the more parents value self-direction in their children, the more likely will they be to punish them on the basis of the child's intent rather than on the consequences of the child's behavior. Data are from 309 parents in Dublin, Ireland, who were selected to provide a sample comparable to Kohn's. All the respondents had a sixth-grade son about whom they were interviewed. For both mothers and fathers there was a small correlation between their socialization values and their punishment behavior, but only for fathers was this correlation statistically significant. However, when we controlled for social class of the respondents, the correlations were reduced to insignificance. I conclude that the values/ behavior link in Kohn's theory is not supported.

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Using a memoir written decades later, I examine key features of the religious scene in Knock, County Mayo, in the 1830s and 1840s. I address the nature of the writer's memory, embodied as it was in orally transmitted stories, and show how these narratives provide maps of the cultural terrain. Then, after briefly considering the class dimension of poor Catholic resentment of powerful Protestants, I focus on the sectarian feeling by and towards other poor people. I analyse the complex ideological work through which local Catholics who converted to Protestantism were socially constructed as 'not-Knock' people.