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#562 Jason Manning - Suicide: The Social Causes of Self-Destruction

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The Social Basis of Suicide

Amiel durkeim was the first sociologist to try to study systematically the social, the social basis of suicide. His book still taught to graduate students in sociology to day. I still teach parts of it in my classes. Some parts hold up, some parts not so much. Definitely a very influential work in the field.

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