Suicide
- Created by: Joseph Timoney-Smith
- Created on: 07-04-15 19:13
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- Suicide
- Durkhiem: a scientific approach
- Categorisation of society
- Anomic
- Social bonds are weak
- People are naturally selfish and look after themselves over others
- When social order is broken down, the natural selfishness takes over and mostly happens during economic or social changes (such as the Great Depression)
- Fatalistic
- Those who daily lives are highly restricted opt for suicide to escape the situation
- Too much social integration
- Egoistic
- Social bonds are weak and there is low levels of social intergration
- People see themselves above society
- Religious pressures like how your actions effect the wider church can cause egoistic suicide
- Social bonds are weak and there is low levels of social intergration
- Altruistic
- The welfare of individuals is seen as less important than the welfare of the group
- It occurs when the individual commits suicide for the group
- Anomic
- Critisms
- Figure may be wong as countries/cornors or families lie and alter the numbers
- He didn't carry out the investigation himself - couldn't possibly be valid scientific research
- Categorisation of society
- Atkinson - social construction of suicide
- Suicide notes can be found and destroyed to spare the blame on families
- Mental conditions need to assessed
- The circumstance and time of death need to be recorded
- Taylor: Parasuicides
- Parasuicides is a term used tfor suicide attempts where the person is not certain whether they want to die or not and so gamble with their life
- Suggest that an "ordeal" category should be created for those who attempt to commit suicide because iit still tells us about social problems within a society
- Durkhiem: a scientific approach
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