Durkheim's study of suicide rates and the social facts that affect societies and individuals within those societies

Study of Suicide Durkheim's book 'Suicide: A study in sociology', published in 1897 defines suicide as "all causes of death resulting directly or indirectly from a positive or negative act of the victim himself which he knows will produce this result"(Turner, et al 1995, p 329). The consensus at the time was that suicide was a private act that lacked social approval. Suicide was largely considered to be a nervous disorder derived from a weak physiological disposition (…

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