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Why does Derkheim analyse suicide rates to determine causes of suicide rather than focusing on individual or social factors
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Suicide Durkheim became interested in the subject of suicide while in France in the late 1880's, he offered a series of lectures to the public and later published what was his third major work 'le suicide' in 1897. 'Le Suicide' is of great importance because it is his first serious effort to establish empiricism in sociology, an empiricism that would provide a sociological explanation for suicide which was traditionally regarded as exclusively psychological and individualistic. Durkheim proposed this definition of suicide "the term suicide is applied to all cases of death resulting directly or indirectly from a positive or negative act of the victim himself, which he knows will produce this result." Cited in (http://durkheim.itgo.com/suicide.html) In Rules of Sociological Method (1895), Durkheim has begun to define the field or discipline of sociology, by recognizing that there are specific approaches and understandings that belong to sociology or the study of social relationships,...
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