Durkheim, Suicide and the Rules

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In Durkheim's book The Rules of Sociological Method he explains his key concept of "social facts" and gives language and currency as examples of them. He devotes a whole book - Suicide - as his thi...

In Durkheim's book The Rules of Sociological Method he explains his key concept of "social facts" and gives language and currency as examples of them. He devotes a whole book - Suicide - as his third example of such. This academic audiobook with sociology professor Garry Potter explains Durkheim's focus upon Suicide as the most counter-intuitive and difficult example to make his case for the sociological method. It discusses Durkeim's opinion that the most personal and individual act actually has a sociological causal component when one looks at suicide rates.

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