Durkheim's Scientific Analysis of Suicide

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