Emile Durkheim's Three Typologies For The Social Rate Of Suicide

Emile Durkheim presents three typologies for the social rate of suicide in the book On Suicide by explicitly defining suicide in terms of society as opposed to the individual. He notes that typically suicide is seen as act of great individuality, and pertains to psychological factors and further individual factors. When Durkheim looks at suicide rates for different societies in Europe between, and between given time periods, statistics show that there is a stable rate among all of the countries, but a lot of variation between each country. This leads him to the conclusion that if suicide is an individual act, then different societies should have the same suicide rates. Therefore, an element in society produces the differing suicide rates. In