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This study examines the methodology of Emile Durkheim’s Suicide from a realist perspective. Existing studies on the suicide in South Korea fail to account for the theoretical and methodological achievement of Durkheim’s ‘sociological turn’ due to the dominance of positivism in the social science a...

This study examines the methodology of Emile Durkheim’s Suicide from a realist perspective. Existing studies on the suicide in South Korea fail to account for the theoretical and methodological achievement of Durkheim’s ‘sociological turn’ due to the dominance of positivism in the social science academy. As a consequence, a depoliticized and limited reading of suicide exists in South Korea. Thus, scientific explanations for suicide in South Korea is at a standstill, and common ideas based on individualistic methodology dominate. Conversely, ‘sociological naturalism’ and the ‘emergence theory’ of Durkheim means that Suicide can be read not only as a scientific analysis about the causes of social pathology but also a political project for restructuring the existing social order. In conclusion, this article asserts that the scientific reliability and limitations of Suicide could be correctly evaluated based on a realist interpretation on Durkheim’s methodology, and that ‘fatalistic suicide’ should be re-established as a diagnosis for the structural pathology of capitalism in South Korea.

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