What can statistics teach us about suicide? Here we discuss one of the classics of sociology, Durkheim's "Suicide: A Study in Sociology". This is the third video in the historical Development of Sociology series.

Table of contents:
0:00 Introduction
1:16 Historical background
3:20 Sociological positivism
5:13 Book 1: Extra-social factors of suicide
7:12 Book 2: Social causes and social types of suicide
10:39 Anomie
13:10 Book 3: General nature of suicide as a social phenomenon
15:15: The potential of occupational associations
16:51 Social facts
18:13 Modern relevance

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