For Durkheim, sociology could be described as the "science of institutions, their genesis and their functioning".Durkheim's seminal monograph, Suicide (1897), a case study of suicide rates amongst Catholic and Protestant populations, distinguished sociological analysis from psychology or philosophy.. 
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