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On Suicide (Penguin Classics)

Emile Durkheim

Emile Durkheim's On Suicide (1897) was a groundbreaking book in the field of sociology. Traditionally, suicide was thought to be a matter of purely individual despair but Durkheim recognized that the phenomenon had a social dimension. He believed that if anything can explain how individuals relate t...

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The Matt Walsh Show

The panel referenced Emile Durkheim's 1870s seminal work *On Suicide*, which examined comparative suicide statistics across cultures to explain societal influences on suicide rates.

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Durkheim was the first person to write very seriously about suicide in the 1870s for a book called On Suicide, in which he looked at comparative suicide statistics across countries and cultures.

— Episode: Daily Wire Backstage: WE WON

Episode: Daily Wire Backstage: WE WON

The panel referenced Emile Durkheim's 1870s seminal work *On Suicide*, which examined comparative suicide statistics across cultures to explain societal influences on suicide rates.

"

Durkheim was the first person to write very seriously about suicide in the 1870s for a book called On Suicide, in which he looked at comparative suicide statistics across countries and cultures.

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