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Discuss distinct sociological method adopted by Emile Durkheim in his study of ‘suicide’.

  • UPSC 2017
  • Sociological Thinkers

Émile Durkheim's Suicide (1897) put into practice the programme of The Rules of Sociological Method (1895). By choosing the most individual of acts, he set out to prove that sociology has its own object, social facts, and its own scientific method, independent of psychology.

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  • Objective definition
  • From act to rate
  • Official statistics as indicators
  • Eliminating rival explanations
  • Comparative method and concomitant variation
  • Multivariate logic
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