Emile Durkheim

I'm going to talk about Émile Durkheim.

Émile Durkheim was French sociologist, who was born in 1858 and died in 1917. He is considerate one of the fathers of sociology.

Durkheim's importance is owing to the capacity of defense of the sociology like a scientist discipline, and the application of the scientific method in the study of social phenomenon. 

His principal work is about the suicide. In his book, "the suicide", Durkheim aboard the topic of suicide like a social phenomenon and not like an individual one. This was a plot twist in sociology, because it was the first time that a phenomenon that it was considered individual and private, it was aboard like a collective one.

Durkheim's importance nowadays is due to his magnificent works and the scientific method that the sociology uses to this day. And is interesting how he aboard the topics and the conclusions in his works.

I found about Durkheim in class this year, in the class of sociology. We don’t aboard his work but we used to talk about him a lot. In this semester we work with his book "The suicide" in the class of statistics, and we talked about how he took the suicide phenomenon and how he work with statistics and to make conclusions.