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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 ...
Jan 6, 2020 · Le Suicide by French founding sociologist Émile Durkheim is a classic text in sociology that is widely taught to psychology students. Published in 1897, the book was the first to present a sociological study of suicide, and its conclusion that suicide can have origins in social causes rather than just being due to individual temperament was ...
Mar 31, 2021 · The sociological study of suicide remains rooted in founder Émile Durkheim’s (1897/1951) empirical study of suicide, still the disciplines’ greatest contribution to suicidology (Joiner, 2005). Durkheim’s theory posits two core principles: (1) that the structure of suicide rates is a positive function of the structure of a group or class ...
May 26, 2015 · Durkheim’s systematic and rigorous ideas, resisted during his own life, became the basis for modern empirical research in sociology. In Suicide (1897), the first book-length treatment of this topic, Durkheim analyzes statistical data on suicides among Catholics and Protestants. Durkheim argued that the forces of social integration and ...
Apr 11, 2024 · Durkheim’s 1897 study of suicide was based on his observation that suicide appeared to be less frequent where the individual was closely integrated into a society; in other words, those lacking a strong social identification would be more susceptible to suicide. Thus, the apparently purely individual decision to renounce life could be ...
Durkheim believed there was more to suicide than extremely personal individual life circumstances such as loss of a job, divorce, or bankruptcy. Instead, Durkheim explained suicide as a symptom of collective social deviance, like alcoholism or homicide. He created a normative theory of suicide focusing on the conditions of group life.
Oct 5, 2014 · 10 - Interregnum on Suicide (1897) from Part III - Durkheim on Crime and Punishment. Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 October 2014. Kenneth Smith. Chapter. Get access. Cite. Summary. Durkheim's next book after The Rules was his Le suicide, first published in France in 1897.
