SUICIDE AS A DEVIANT BEHAVIOR – EMILE DURKHEIM’S VIEWPOINT ABOUT NORMLESSNESS
- 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.
Published:
2011-03-30
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”).