This paper will address how Durkheim's epistemological thoughts influenced his analysis of the social element of suicide and will attempt to point out inconsistencies in his typology of suicide. ... Unlike the other influential social theorists of the time (Karl Marx and Max Weber) Emile Durkheim's theories were essentially methodological collectivistic, in that he was largely interested in the workings and organs of society that generated social solidarity. ... Mechanical and organic solidarity are Durkheim's equivalent of traditional authority and legal-rational authority (We...

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Early Enlightment philosophy provided the guiding light to the liberalistic evolution of freedom from restriction, to freedom in the sense of opportunity as a socialistic ideology. ... Freedom was of uttermost importance to him, not in the sense of no limitation, but rather that those whom are to be served in the name of the common good instigate these boundaries. ... One newspaper editor wrote in question of the distribution of wealth: "The is a growing number of Beggars and wandering poor in the streets of the city How often have our streets been covered with Thousands of Barrels of Flour...

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Margaret Hale as a social explorer 3.1 Definition of a social explorer and how Margaret Hale could be considered as one The term social (problem) novel dates back from the 1950s (Guy 3) and is applied to "a body of English fiction written in the late 1840's and 1850's" (ibid.). ... She "learned and delighted in using their peculiar words; took up her freedom among them...carried dainty messes to their sick" (ibid.). ...

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