UNIT – I About Durkheim.

1. Biographical Sketch and Writings 2. Influences on Durkheim’s Thought

UNIT – II The Rules of Sociological Method

3. What is a Social Fact? 4. Rules for the Observation of Social Facts 5. Rules for Distinguishing Between the Normal and the Pathological 6. Rules for the Classification of Social Types 7. Rules for the Explanation of Social Facts 8. Rules Relative to Establishing Sociological Proofs 9. Conclusion.

UNIT – III Suicide

10. Introduction 11. Suicide and Psychopathic States 12. Suicide and Normal Psychological States : Race and Heredity 13. Suicide and Cosmic Factors 14. Imitation 15. How to Determine Social Causes and Social Types? 16. Egoistic Suicide 17. Altruistic Suicide 18. Anomic Suicide 19. Individual forms of the Different Types of Suicide 20. The Social Element of Suicide 21. Relations of Suicide with Other Social Phenomena 22. Practical Consequences.

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