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How successful was Durkheim in using the “Scientific method”. In hindsight would you have conducted research on suicide in a different way?
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How successful was Durkheim in using the "Scientific method". In hindsight would you have conducted research on suicide in a different way? In this essay I will discuss some of the approaches to the study of suicide and its social causes described by Durkheim. I will then present a few alternative theories or critiques of Durkheim; and finally conclude with a Personal reflection on Durkheim`s analysis. Durkheim believed that society is a part of nature, and a science of society has to be based upon the same logical principles as those which obtain in natural science. Therefore Durkheim set out to prove that sociology was a science by applying his theory to the study of suicide. The study of suicide is seen as particularly important because it illustrates the wider theoretical and methodological debates in sociology. The study of suicide, by Durkheim was based on...
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