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In which year did Durkheim publish Suicide, his demonstration that a rate can be a social fact?
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- It appeared two years after his book on method.
- Eighteen ninety-seven.
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1897
Why
1897. The sequence matters: the methodological rules came first, in 1895, and the study was built to demonstrate them on the least promising possible material. Choosing suicide was an argumentative decision before it was an empirical one.
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