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SUICIDE AS A DEVIANT BEHAVIOR – EMILE DURKHEIM’S VIEWPOINT ABOUT NORMLESSNESS

Vy Van Truong 1, *
  1. University of Social Sciences and Humanities, VNU-HCM
Correspondence to: Vy Van Truong, University of Social Sciences and Humanities, VNU-HCM. Email: pvphuc@hcmuns.edu.vn.
Volume & Issue: Vol. 14 No. 1 (2011) | Page No.: 85-93 | DOI: 10.32508/stdj.v14i1.1898
Published: 2011-03-30

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Abstract

Suicide is the problem, which is reaserched under the lots of viewpoints as biological, medical, psychological, sociological, ets. Emile Durkheim was a famous French sociologist. He had written the very famous of the world scientifical book in French “Le Suicide”, that is said about the negative phenomenon of self-killers. In the content of the book E. Durkheim had pointed out that suicide is a deviant behavior. He had called it the “anomie” (means “normlessness”).

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