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Sociological Theory in Practice

”Seminar 3:  Emile Durkheim from Suicide”

Introduction

Sociological Theory in Practice:This assignment emphasizes on the importance of suicide as a subject and offers an explanation and causes from the above mentioned excerpt of Emile Durkheim’s book called Suicide. Emile Durkheim, who was a French sociologist, has worked for years to find out the root causes behind individual’s decision to commit suicide. Furthermore, in the assignment the quote will be analyzed and its main points will be highlighted. The causal explanation and the tendencies that lead a human to commit suicide will be identified. On the basis of the quote, it will be further discovered how different community practices can eradicate it and stand up against such disease.

Question 1: Offer an explanation of the central points which you think are being made in the quote you have chosen.

The chosen quote is an excerpt from the book called Suicide from the French sociologist Emile Durkheim and the primary reason this was chosen among the other ones is that suicide is certainly the most disregarded and neglected subject when it comes to social issue. It is, hence a highly important issue which is affected by an individual feeling that the pain they are experiencing can’t be endured anymore. According to (Durkheim, 2014) this is the real cause why individual commit suicide, but what roots their depression or sense of pain again unwraps a lot of issues. This excerpt revolves around the similar discussion that suicide is affected by number of factors like societal constraints and the influence of collective negative emotions due to an unbearably painful experience. The book and the excerpt itself highly emphasizes that “collective forces” as well as “social currents” are the major reason behind suicide. So as respect to suicide, Durkheim explained that for every individual that leads those to commit suicide is a cause of “a collective force of a determinate amount of energy, impelling men to self-destruction: such forces determine our behavior from without, just like physic-chemical forces.”….