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What is the focus of sociological analysis in the contributions of Emile Durkheim? Give your answer with the help of any one of his contributions.

  • UPSC 2001
  • Sociological Thinkers

Across all his work, Émile Durkheim focused on one question: what holds society together, and what happens to individuals when that moral bond weakens? His object was the collective, a reality sui generis, and his method was to explain social facts by other social facts. This answer takes Suicide (1897) as the contribution that shows…

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  • The focus in general
  • Suicide as the demonstration
  • Why suicide
  • Ruling out non-social causes
  • Social causes: two dimensions
  • What this shows about his focus
  • …and 3 more sections, with a conclusion

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