Wednesday, June 25, 2008

Suicide - Durkheim


After 5 weeks of "unexpected vacations", here I´m, again, writting about a topic of my interest releated to my area of study. I decided to choose "Suicide" of Emile Durkheim. In the last weeks we have been learning in Theory about the third major work of this french phylosopher and sociologyst as well.

The interesting point of this work and the main tesis of Durkheim about the suicide, is that it doesn´t focus on individual characteristics. Instead of that, Durkheim said that suicide is caused by a combination of induvidual and social factors.

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