- Suicide, Suicidio (Psicologia), Problemas Sociais, Sociological aspects
Originally published in 1897, this is Durkheim's pioneering attempt to offer a sociological explanation for a phenomenon regarded until then as exclusively psychological and individualistic.
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- Author
- Émile Durkheim
- First published
- 1850
- Pages
- 415
- Publisher
- The Free Press, Penguin Classics, Simon & Schuster, Limited
- Editions
- 77
- Language
- French, English, Spanish
- ISBN
- 9780203994320
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“THERE are two sorts of extra-social causes to which one may, a priori, attribute an influence on the suicide-rate; they are organic-psychic dispositions and the nature of the physical environment.”
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