suicide
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- suicide
- Durkheim / positivists
- Quantitative - comparative - various countries and subgroups - reliable social facts - causal theory
- findings and conclusions
- -Vary between country but remain stable - higher rates in protestant then catholic - higher rates in single people - rates rose during times of national crisis
- conclusions
- stability shows suicide rates are determined by social factors which are the same within a country
- theory
- too little or too much social control causes suicide
- too much / too little regulation
- lack of integration - EGOISTIC over integration - ALTRUISTIC lack of regulation - ANOMIC over regulation - FATALISTIC
- Walbach - residence is important - alone in urban areas = isolated lives = suicide
- -Northern Ireland - rise in suicde 2010 -Financial crisis -Teachers -Religion
- strengths and weaknesses
- Cavan - higher rates in Chicago - high levels of integration
- Sainsburys - suicide rates high where there is socila disorganisation
- too readily accept OCS
- interpretivist /action
- Douglas - OCS dont take into consideration the is it/isnt it suicide debate - Case studies - diary's
- -Revenge - Search for help - Repentance - Escape
- Atkinson - Coroner bias - qualitative - informal interviews and inquests - clues coroners use - suicide note - mode of death - location and circumstance - life history
- Believe sociologists should look at the individual meaning
- Dorais - 32 in depth informal interviews - gay men who had attempted suicide - isolated and unintegrated
- Baechler - Case studies - support Diuglas's claim
- too readily accept OCS
- Douglas - OCS dont take into consideration the is it/isnt it suicide debate - Case studies - diary's
- Realist / Taylor
- Qualitative - 32 cases of 'one under's'
- Ectopic - private - submissive - certain about themselves - thanatation - uncertain about themselves - Symphysic - others - sacrifice - certain about others - appeal - uncertain about others
- conc. - key = the way individuals feel about themselves and those closest too them - complex - risk taking
- theory
- not a clear cut distinction between fake and real suicides - most fall in between - parasuicides - risk taking
- Ettinger and flordah - 90% of 500 cases of suicide were gambles with fate - validity
- postmods - grandtotalising theory of suicide - all knowledge is uncertain - all theories equal - partial view
- Durkheim / positivists
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