Emile Durkheim: The Suicide Hello my friends! In this moment I going talk about one of the founding fathers of sociology, called Emile Durkheim :) Emile was a French sociologist who set the boundaries of the discipline for firts time. He is the first to talk about "Social Fact", Durkheim explain that "a social fact is every way of acting, fixed or not, capable of exercising on the individual an external constraint; or again, every way of acting which is general throughout a given society, while at the same time existing in its own right independent of its individual manifestations". The main topics of Durkheim are : the suicide, social division of work, school discipline, and religious rituals . This time I will focus in his study of suicide, that was the first study of a "social fact" (and not only individual psychological fact) measured quantitatively. Durkheim identified four types of suicide, egoistic suicide,altruistic suicide, anomic su...
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