durkheim

no need outside source expect for Durkheim's on suicide

For the two following quotes from Durkheim provide a “translation” into your own words (rewriting and explaining the original) as well as commentary/ discussion about its meaning in relation to the whole of Durkheim’s book.

Quotation P.213 (On Suicide)

“It is not without reason, therefore, that man feels himself to be double: he actually is double… In brief, this duality corresponds to the double existence that we lead concurrently; the one purely individual and rooted in our organisms, the other social and nothing but an extensions of society.”

Quotation 2.

“A social fact is identifiable through the power of external coercion which it exerts or is capable of exerting upon individuals.”

Limited: no more than two pages.