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Durkheim's *Suicide*

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In Suicide (1897) Durkheim showed that rates of a seemingly private act vary systematically with social integration.

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He compared rates across districts and religious groups, finding differences no individual explanation accounted for.

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The claim is about rates across populations, never about predicting any one person.