Emile durkheim believed that social norms helped to maintain social order. for example, he explains that suicide is a result of
a lack of balance in an individual's social world and not an event that is based on an individual's free will. into which sociological theory does this best fit?
This is an example of structural-functional theory. It is because that theory explains of how one affects the other depending on how they work. They see the society in a more complex system rather than a different way in which how Emile thinks with how he explains the given example above. This theory most likely promotes stability.
