Suicide
- Created by: Georgie Rush
- Created on: 26-08-13 16:00
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- Suicide
- Positivist Approach
- Durkheim
- 4 types of suicide
- Egoistic Suicide
- Individual failure or unhappiness are acceptable grounds for taking own life.
- National crisis e.g. war can lead societies to be drawn together so there is more social integration.
- Individual rights and happiness are stressed, so wider groups have weakened in social bonds.
- Social institutions try and counteract egoistic values and strengthen bonds.
- Insufficient Integration
- Altruistic Suicide
- Suicides occur where people are expected to commit suicide on behalf of wider society, e.g. suicide bombers
- Welfare of individuals less important than welfare from the group
- Excess Integration
- Fatalistic Suicide
- Lose the will to live
- Japanese soldiers and civilians in closing stages of World War
- Could explain prison suicide rates
- Excess Regulation
- Lose the will to live
- Anomic Suicide
- Happens in times of great social change
- If cultural and social mechanisms that restrict unacceptable behaviour are weakened, some resort to natural selfishness
- Insufficient Regulation
- Egoistic Suicide
- Suicide was linked to two social forces
- 4 types of suicide
- Egoistic Suicide
- Individual failure or unhappiness are acceptable grounds for taking own life.
- National crisis e.g. war can lead societies to be drawn together so there is more social integration.
- Individual rights and happiness are stressed, so wider groups have weakened in social bonds.
- Social institutions try and counteract egoistic values and strengthen bonds.
- Insufficient Integration
- Altruistic Suicide
- Suicides occur where people are expected to commit suicide on behalf of wider society, e.g. suicide bombers
- Welfare of individuals less important than welfare from the group
- Excess Integration
- Fatalistic Suicide
- Lose the will to live
- Japanese soldiers and civilians in closing stages of World War
- Could explain prison suicide rates
- Excess Regulation
- Lose the will to live
- Anomic Suicide
- Happens in times of great social change
- If cultural and social mechanisms that restrict unacceptable behaviour are weakened, some resort to natural selfishness
- Insufficient Regulation
- Egoistic Suicide
- Social Integration
- Integration of individual into social groups, binding them into society and building social cohesion
- Lower suicide with greater social integration e.g. Roman Catholics and Hindu societies are highly integrated; so care more for others
- Moral Regulation
- Regulation or control by social values of the actions and desires of individuals
- 4 types of suicide
- AO2
- Official statistics are unreliable and lack validity
- No clear definitions
- Ideas are based on assumptions
- Focuses on external factors such as religion instead of individual
- 4 types of suicide
- Positivist approach to research, over a 20 year period with official statistics and documents
- Durkheim
- Intepretivist Approach
- Douglas
- Different meanings of suicide
- Transformation of the self
- Repentance suicide.
- Suicide as self-punishment to show repentance for wrongdoing
- Transformation of the soul
- Escape suicide
- Suicide as a means of escaping from the misery of this life
- Revenge suicide
- Suicide to attach guilt and blame to those who have wronged them
- Sympathy suicide
- Suicide as a 'cry for help' and sympathy.
- Often found in attempted suicides
- Transformation of the self
- The degree of social integration influences whether a death is a suicide
- AO2
- Based on assumptions
- No single act can be determined as suicide, only death being the main concept as people place different meanings on their acts
- Different meanings of suicide
- Atkinson
- Suicide is a construct, it is up to a coroner, who's decisions is based on clues
- Mode of death
- Suicide note
- in 30% of cases the family destroy this
- Shows intention
- Possibly faked
- Location and Circumstance
- Life History and Mental Condition
- State of mind, emotional state, life events
- Coroners 'guess' if suicide as long as the circumstances and evidence 'fit' typical assumptions
- Suicide is a construct, it is up to a coroner, who's decisions is based on clues
- Believe society is based on individuals interactions
- Qualitative method
- Douglas
- Realist Approach
- Taylor
- Para-suicides; people who attempt suicide and fails.
- Inner-directed suicide - private, detached from others
- Other-directed suicide - communicating messages to other people
- London underground study: coroners construct biographies of the victim
- Suicide statistics are unreliable and socially constructed
- Coroners distort suicide figures
- Certainty of attachment; degree of certainty / uncertainty about relationships with others
- Para-suicides; people who attempt suicide and fails.
- Taylor
- The action of killing ones self intentionally
- Positivist Approach
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