How can difference in the rate of suicide be explained? That is the
central question in this classic work by the father of modern
sociology, Emile Durkheim. What interested Durkheim was not so much
the reasons for an individual's suicide but why one society had a
higher rate of suicide than another and why there were variations
between social classes or religious groups In his research he used
the then-radical approach of applying the methods of natural
science to the study of society. His conclusion was that it was the
degree of social cohesion in a particular group and the extent to
which members of that group felt they belonged that so affected the
rate of suicide. So far-sighted were his ideas that this work has
served as a model of social theory for more than 100 years.
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