Abstract

Emile Durkheim is one of the fathers of sociology. Suicide brings his work conceptual and analytical tools to understand the moral architecture of society. In this article we review these artifacts of social theory, scientifically contrasted his time, able to measure the integrative force of human groups and to identify the variables that determine its operation. Despite the unstoppable individualism that defines our societies, is still valid sociological analysis that accounts for the collective nature of many of our decisions and behaviors