Through his most famous work examining suicide, Durkheim argued that external fo

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Through his most famous work examining suicide, Durkheim argued that external forces that transcended individuals had much more influence on maintaining the social order than any individual person. What were these forces referred to as by Durkheim?

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Positivism

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Anomie

Through his most famous work examining suicide, Durkheim argued that external forces that transcended individuals had much more influence on maintaining the social order than any individual person. What were these forces referred to as by Durkheim?

Social Statics

Verstehen

Positivism

Social Facts

Anomie

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Answer : Option C

Positivism

Durkheim argued that Positivism is such a efficient, useful and genuinely scientific approach, it could explain something as highly individual as suicide in terms of external causes. According to Positivism, human behaviour is a response to observable social facts, and can be explained in terms of cause and effect relationship.

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