Emile Durkheim's Theoretical Typology Of Suicide

Durkheim proceeded to distinguish suicide into four different groups that related to the individual’s integration into society and in turn the social regulation of society over its members. ‘Consequently, we shall be able to determine the social types of suicide by classifying them not directly by their preliminarily described characteristics, but by the causes which produce them…. We will first seek the social conditions responsible for them; then group these conditions in a number of separate classes by their resemblances and differences, and we shall be sure that a specific type of suicide will correspond to each of these classes.’ (Durkheim, 1897) The four suicide groups were identified as Egotistic, Anomic, Altruistic and Fatalistic.

Anomic Suicide is suicide caused by extreme stress and depression. For example, this type of suicide is most likely to occur after a divorce, financial issues, or the stress of everyday life.

Durkheim’s study of sociology was heavily focused in the study of social institutions such as religion, and marriage. As a positivist, Durkheim believed that suicide was an impartial reasonable fact of society. This idea is due to the visual representations of suicide rates of societies over

Durkheim does not see egoism, altruism, anomie and fatalism as types of suicide, but types of social structure that highlight the presence or lack of integration and regulation. It must be stressed that this excess/lack of integration and regulation are not seen as direct causes of suicide, rather Durkheim sees a number of voluntary deaths in society as inevitable; integration and regulation are merely prophylactic to suicidal impulses, which when taken to excess or dramatically reduced, fail to act as a preventative, and so suicides occur. This clarification is an important strength of Durkheim’s theory: it allows the biography of the individuals who kill themselves to vary, while still explaining underlying pressures/lack of to explain their deaths, and the varying suicide rates between groups.

This essay will explore the sociological contributions provided by functionalist Emile Durkheim, the ideas he posited and the criticisms both internal and external that were prompted by his theory of suicide. Suicide is undeniably one of the most personal actions an individual can take upon oneself and yet it has a deep social impact. Could this be because social relationships play such an important role in its causation? In a sociological study Emile Durkheim produced his theory of suicide, and its relationship with society. Or when written more precisely, his theory was about society, and its relationship with suicide.

When Durkheim uses the term “anomie” in Suicide, he is referring to disorienting social upheaval. Anomie occurs when one’s place in society, or society itself, is disrupted by a crisis or a sudden transition. In these situations, society is incapable of exerting the sort of influence required to restrain individuals’ expectations and desires. This assertion is based on the understanding that, without society, an individual’s desire would be insatiable. Society alone can soothe this passion by imposing regulation, in the forms of morality and legislation. Anomie is characterized by a suspension of these systems. As a total loss of organization ensues, individuals cease to know and understand their place in society,

When it comes to suicide often as individuals we describe suicide as something that is caused by an individuals experience that may include how someone lives, personalities, and religion. While also including that there are no biological influence that may be passed on from genetics, genes, and heredity that can come from depressions. However, Durkheim argues against that suicide is caused by social factors and how involved or integrated the individuals is in connection to society. Usually when asked why someone decided to kill himself or herself we usually think of what he/she was thinking about in their mind. Almost pertaining to the individuals decision we wouldn’t be thinking about society as something that could have caused suicide but

“Durkheim was the first to develop a methodology for studying suicide”. In 1897 he published Le Suicide, the first application of a social analysis. While writing his social analysis Emilie Durkheim debated that suicide was not just an individual choice. He suggested that society at large acted as a contributing factor to suicide.

Durkheim had multiple types of suicides and their causes. Two of these types of suicides include egoistic and anomic suicide. Egoistic suicide is when social integration is too weak that it causes suicide (cite; notes 2015). This can happen when religious, domestic, and political social groups disintegrate with an individual and leaves that person

Emile Durkheim is a prominent figure in Sociology, and is often referred to as one of the founding fathers of the subject, alongside Marx and Weber. This is due to his work on studying Suicide in his book ‘Suicide: A Study in Sociology’, this work was monumental in the field of Sociology as Durkheim was the first sociologist to suggest that society can affect what is probably the most private action a person can perform; ending their life.

Introduction The primary source that will be discussed in this paper is Suicide written by Emile Durkheim. Durkheim was a French sociologist who was most famous in the 19th and 20th century for his work on the structure of society. During the time of his writings, he analyzed different social institutions and the roles in which they play in society. As a result, his work was associated with the theoretical framework of structural functionalism. The 19th century was most known for the Industrial Revolution.

singles have higher rate than marriage couples. Protestant have higher rate than Catholic and Jews. Because protestant society are more individual and they believe to work hard and harder. They depend on their self-achievement than traditional and family lineage. On the other hand catholic and Jews are much restricted than protestant, because people respect with their religious leaders like churches, monks etc. that is why protestant societies are more developed than with the catholic societies. Also, anyone who is rejected by the society are very likely to commit suicide than the individual who have more integrated to the society. Similarly, person can commit self-suicide if he or she suddenly lost their wealth. He argued that modern society lost

Durkheim conducted a study into suicide in order to try and prove that there was a correlation in suicide rates that was determined by the relationship between individuals and society. In particular, Durkheim noted that suicide rates were dependent upon the degree to which individuals were integrated into social groups and the degree to which society regulated individual behaviour. Durkheim, when discussing why an individual had committed suicide, perceived that their death was determined by their social existence (Durkheim's Suicide, Whitney Pope, 1976). On this basis, Durkheim distinguished four different types of suicide; egoistic, altruistic, anomic and fatalistic (Classical Social Theory, Ian Craib,

statistics displayed that some categories of people were more prone to take their own lives,

Durkheim investigated suicide and categorized into four separate types as follows: egoistic, altruistic, anomic, and fatalistic. He explored egoistic suicide through the three religions of Protestant, Catholicism, and Judaism as well as an investigation into married and unmarried people. He explored altruistic suicide through interpretation of primitive and Eastern societies. He explored anomic suicide by examining economic and financial crises through the angle of prosperity and despair (economic downturn). He briefly noted fatalistic suicide in a footnote; he noted this type of suicide occurs in social conditions where the individual experiences pervasive oppression. Durkheim