suicide mindmap
- Created by: Lindsay Moore
- Created on: 13-01-13 13:13
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- Durkheim- Suicide
- Egoistic Suicide
- when a person lacks integration into society
- a person is not integrated into enough social groups such as family and friends
- this is linked with protestants as it is less integrated than the Catholic church
- Altruistic suicide
- when a person is too well integrated that they give up their life in sacrificeout of duty to others
- Suicide bombers do this
- Anomic Suicide
- when society does not regulate the person enough
- This is where society's guidelines become unclear
- those who committed suicide after the wall street crash
- Fatalistic Suicide
- when society restricts the individual too much
- this is when suicide becomes a form of escape
- slaves and cancer patients do this to escape their future
- Criticisms of Durkheim
- Halbwachs says he puts too much importance on religion
- Durkheim assumes that group membership means a lot to individuals
- This is putting his own subjective interpretation on the data
- His work is based on official suicide statistics which may be unreliable and social constructs
- Egoistic Suicide
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