Suicide. Durkheim E.

Emil Durkheim (1858-1917) - French sociologist and philosopher, professor of Bordeaux universities and Sorbonne, founder of the French sociological school, one of the founders of sociology as an independent science. This book, first published back in 1897, became a model of sociological research. Durkheim used the method of secondary analysis of existing official statistics, and, based on extensive actual material, analyzed the phenomenon of suicide from various aspects: social and moral -psychological, religious and ethnic.