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Sociologist Émile Durkheim's 1897 work On Suicide is a powerful evidence-based study of why people take their own lives. In the late 19th century it was generally accepted that each suicide was an individual phenomenon, caused by such personal factors as grief, loss, and financial problems. But Durkheim felt there were patterns in suicide rates, and believed that a more likely cause of suicide lay in the individual's relationship to society.

The Red Mile Rundown is your go-to podcast for all things Calgary Flames, hosted by John Easthope and DFO Calgary writer Robert Munnich. From game breakdowns and player hot takes to trades, drafts, and everything in between, if the Flames are doing it—we’re talking about it. It’s smart, spirited hockey talk for fans who live and breathe the C of Red. New Episodes available every Tuesday!!!!

When American sociologist C. Wright Mills's The Sociological Imagination was first published in 1959, it provoked much hostile reaction. This was understandable: the book was a hard-hitting attack on how sociology was practiced - and on a number of leading sociologists. Mills was a fierce critic of both modern capitalism and Soviet-style authoritarianism, and argued that the sociology profession failed to look at how people's problems are connected to the structures of the society in which they live.