Suicide, A Social Theorist, Emile Durkheim

Feelings of isolation have been linked to higher suicide rates. Durkheim’s study on suicide during the industrial revolution supports this theory as he states that, “people were increasingly disconnected from their communities and that this social upheaval had a greater effect on suicide rates than other factors like wealth” (Winner & Collishaw, 2011). Interestingly enough, despite the increase of media attention on suicide, no studies have been published that explain why suicide rates vary among different groups. However, various factors are involved in the decision to commit suicide. As a result, suicide rates vary according to race, gender and age.

For many the concept of teenage suicide is almost always correlated with the psychological mindset of the individuals. However, there is a lot of the factors behind these horrifying events that actually are more sociologically related. These catastrophic events are directly correlated with interactions with the world. The loss of teenagers across the world is increasing and it is a subject that should be touched on in both sciences. Throughout this paper the study of teen suicide in the sociological view will be discussed by going through Emile Durkheim’s studies and the sub groups in which it can occur. These events are related back to such things as social rejection, religious beliefs and social situations. This paper will also touch on the different types of suicide and what the suicides correlate with. The main purpose of this paper is to show how teen suicide is not only a psychological problem with students but to breakdown the areas in which cause these feelings.

Suicide and accidental death from self-harm were the third leading cause of mortality in adolescents aged 10- 19 years of age in 2015, resulting in 67,000 deaths (world health organization). Many cases have have been reported in the local news, online, and through use of social media websites such as: Facebook and snap chat. There have also been multiple cases of youths that have posted their suicide live online. This is clearly a cry for help, if only someone was there to provide some form of assistance, could these cases have been prevented? This is a very important crisis that affect families, communities, and health care professionals worldwide and therefore deserves to be further discussed.

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

Following Durkheim’s rationale, I would predict that the suicide rate for Jewish women in the USA in 1990 is higher than that for Jewish women in France in 1890. Durkheim claims that suicide rate varies in inverse proportion to the degree of social integration, or the force of the collective values upon individuals. According to him, the greater the autonomy of each individual, the looser he is bound to the society, and the more likely it is for him to commit suicide because human activities have a social origin and hence a collective purpose, without which there is no meaning for human activities (214-215). Consequently, in a community where men are completely subsumed under an "identical body of doctrine" (159), where the collective social

During the study of suicidal behaviour, Emile Durkheim's arguments became the basis for promoting research in modern society. Suicide is explained as one of the deepest and most social social phenomena representing the reality of a society. Durkheim claims that suicide is a serious problem, and it reveals the downside of development in various social phases. In addition, during the psychological analysis, Durkheim has shown the transition from traditional agricultural societies to organizational support societies, which have lost the value of community connections and intimate family relationship. Structural loss is affirmed as a danger to modern society. Therefore, the knowledge of these facts becomes a useful solution to help society find its own way of effective regulation.

Decades after Durkheim’s book, Le Suicide, research has challenged his theory of suicide. With all the research that has been done to prove that suicide cannot be generalized, as Durkheim has stated in his book. With the media publicizing celebrity’s “suicides and a spike in the aggregate suicide rate,” (Abrutyn & Mueller, 2014) the mass suicide attempts by groups or cults, and the suicidal ideas and behaviors that individuals are exposed too daily, Durkheim’s suicide theory needed new information. Gabriel Tarde’s theory or “laws” became formalized into testable theses, while future

Scotland had comparatively high level of lunacy but there is low level self-destruction. While Saxony showed a low level of lunacy but a high rate of self-destruction. Alcohol addiction and substance abuse are eliminated by Durkheim (Law, 2011, p.200). Undoubtedly, race itself is abolished as an irrational concept. In the month of summer and at temperature degrees of latitude (50-55 degrees), there are more suicide cases because when communion is most competency public, especially in urban areas. One of the causes of non-social associated to suicide that Durkheim examines is imitation. Durkheim differing the suicide rates among protestant and catholic, he argues that stronger social control among catholic result in lower suicide rates. According to Durkheim, catholic society has normal levels of integration while protestant society has low levels. He says that suicide rates are higher in men than in women. Suicides rates are higher among those who are not in relationship than those who are married. Because of the being single, the women do not have children so there is more suicide case in

David Emile Durkheim was a well known French sociologist, social psychologist and philosopher. He is acknowledged for his establishment of social theory which views sociology as a natural science subject to empirical study. His book “suicide” was one of the most prominent books in the field of sociology. In this book he speaks about how the suicide rate differs among the Protestants and Catholics saying that there is less number of suicides among the Catholics as they have stronger social control. According to Durkheim, Catholics are more open to the idea of accepting new member in the society as compare to the Protestants. There were two criticisms for this interpretation. Firstly, the data that he collected were from early researchers and secondly this was only limited to the German speaking Europe. But despite its limitations his theory was one of the

Durkheim’s view and understanding of suicide differs from that of psychologists on the grounds of reasons as to why people commit suicide. A psychologist would attribute a variety of internal reasons like unhappiness, feeling of lacking somewhere or that of decreasing self worth as reasons why a person commits suicide. Durkheim has a very different way of looking at a suicide. He believes that it is an outcome of the social context in which the individual dwells. He attributes social and societal reasons that are external to the individual but, still tend to have a profound impact on him/her. According to him, it is the surroundings of an individual that provoke him/her to commit suicide. Durkheim believed that the consistency of suicide rates was a social fact that was affected by the degree to which people were coordinated through forces of binding and togetherness in society. According to Durkheim, suicide is connected to each case of death which comes from a positive or negative act, carried out by a person, who has a realization that it will create this outcome and will bring an end to his/her life. Durkheim tries to find out social reasons for suicide (not individual or mental)

Millennials now a days, has a high rate in experiencing depression and sometimes they think the only way to escape is killing their self. According to the study, suicide is the second leading cause of death in young people. A major cause of suicide is mental illness, very commonly depression. People who has suicidal feeling are overwhelmed by painful emotions and see suicide as only way out. They think suicide is the only solution to solve their problems.

In this essay I will explain about Durkheim theory of suicide,which were categorize in three types.Firstly, I will include an introductory history of Emile Durkheim about his life and work throughout his life.Secondly,an elaboration on the theory of suicide followed the three types of suicide which are altruistic,egoistic and anomic (which I will be focus more in this essay) . Lastly, a relation of society in Brunei with one of Durkheim’s theory of suicide.

I have chosen to do research on Émile Durkheim because of the fact that he is considered one of the "founding fathers" of modern sociology and, because of his research on how industrialized societies caused it’s people to become unhappy and resulted in higher suicide rates as compared to less industrialized societies. This work of his is called Suicide and it grabbed my attention from the moment I found out about it. To me Suicide is such an intriguing research study and I would have never imagined that a technologically advanced and modern society would play such a big part in contributing to the suicide rate increasing within a society. Aside from that, just the sheer fact that Durkheim is an important contributor to the discipline of sociology makes him quite interesting to want to research. In the end, the information I learn from this research can help me better understanding the discipline of sociology by exposing me to the theories and the work of a well known and important sociologist. By exploring Durkheim’s work, I am opening doors that will lead me into the sociological world, which will connect me to other sociological topics and theorists, furthering my knowledge on the subject.

Durkheim saw his primary aim as the construction of a philosophical basis for a science of sociology, i.e. he wanted to show that sociology could be a rigorous scientific discipline (Fulcher & Scott, 2011). ‘Le Suicide’ (Durkheim, 1897) is regarded by many as the first empirical study in sociology; he applied his refined positivistic methodological principles to the study of suicide and so treated suicide rates as a ‘social fact’. This essay will start with a brief outline of Durkheim’s ‘social fact’ and then go on to take a more comprehensive look at his approach to studying suicide rates as social facts. This essay will also consider the main critiques of Durkheim’s study on suicide, which manifests itself primarily through the positivist