The Study of Suicide by Emile Durkheim. By: Carson Dunaway

 Carson Dunaway

Mr. Roddy

IHSS
9/27/2021

IHSS HW: Sociology Reading and Small-scale research, blog, seminar

The Study of Suicide by Emile Durkheim is about how suicide isn’t limited to yourself or self struggles but can also derive from social encounters. The book was published in 1897, which people back then thought that suicide only comes from yourself or that it isn’t or can’t be linked to other people. So when Emile Durkheim published the book people were going nuts over the idea that people could commit suicide because of other people. In his book, Emile Durkheim did a study of suicide rates between religions. He found a lower rate of suicide among Catholics and theorized that this was due to stronger forms of social control and cohesion among them than among Protestants. He also did research into things like suicide rates of men and women, (Which most/all women were housewives.) and men had a higher rate. Or other things like being single and together, (More single people were killing themselves.) war veterans, (More war veterans were killing themselves.), and people who have children or not. (People who had children were killing themselves at lower rates than people with no children.) Emile says that the more social a person is the more connected they are going to be to society and the closer they are to society then they are either going to have higher or lower rates of suicide dependent on the form of society that person is growing in. Durkheim developed a theoretical typology of suicide to explain the differing effects of social factors and how they might lead to suicide. 

  • Anomic suicide is an extreme response by a person who experiences anomie, a sense of disconnection from society, and a feeling of not belonging resulting from weakened social cohesion.

  • Altruistic suicide is often a result of excessive regulation of individuals by social forces such that a person may be moved to kill themselves for the benefit of a cause or for society at large.

  • Egoistic suicide is a profound response executed by people who feel totally detached from society.

  • Fatalistic suicide occurs under conditions of extreme social regulation resulting in oppressive conditions and a denial of the self and of the agency.

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