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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