Suicide

Suicide

Introduction

The French sociologist Emile Durkheim in his book Suicide (1897) notes that suicides are essentially individual phenomena that respond to social causes. The companies have certain pathological symptoms, primarily social integration or regulation either over or under the individual in the community. Therefore, the suicide would be a social fact.

Loses the sense of law, social norms and become skeptical of life and all it implies. Although each person is different suicide, rank and go through the same process. One of the most important factors of the suicidal person is the conviction of suicide as a feasible method. If we study the behavior of suicidal people, we cannot ensure that you can prevent all kinds of suicide but we can consider whether you would use the same methodology, mode, time and space. Several theories have been developed to explain the root causes and characteristics thereof. Taken into account reasons such as economic status, socio-professional, age and marital status. He says that sometimes people are predisposed to suicide.

A positive act would be to shoot one or to hang one. In this case, death comes as a direct result of the action. A negative act would be to remain in a burning house or to refuse to take food to the point of starvation. Death in this case comes to an individual indirectly.

Thesis Statement

Suicide is a growing sociological problem.

Discussion

This work shows the suicide from a different perspective. For Durkheim, suicide is a social action that is rooted in social disorganization therefore cannot be considered an individual or a personal decision, but it causes some power that is beyond human control, super individual. As suicide is a manifestation of complex social conditions, for diagnosis must be considered definitely sociological factors as to their origin. Durkheim, a founder of modern sociology, presented the hypothesis that suicide is a result of the integration of the individual in society. It helps readers in understanding the suicide as well as the psychological impact of impetus on the victim and his family as well as the society as a whole.

Durkheim's analysis of suicide has been highly influential within sociology. His arguments in relation to this closely relate to the types as well as levels of SOCIAL INTEGRATION in the context of society. Thus an explanation of these different rates required a distinctively sociological explanation. Using available published statistics, Durkheim first eliminated various environmental and psychological variables previously proposed as explaining suicide, before proposing that four distinctive types of suicide can be identified:, ALTRUISTIC SUICIDE, ANOMIC SUICIDE, EGOISTIC SUICIDE and FATALISTIC SUICIDE, each of these corresponding to a particular condition of society.

One central problem in Durkheim's account is that OFFICIAL STATISTICS undoubtedly distort and understate the overall incidence of suicide. It is also likely they do so more for some groups than others (e.g. Durkheim found Catholics less likely than Protestants to commit suicide, but Catholics may have greater reason to conceal suicide). Some sociologists (e.g. J. Douglas, The Social Meaning of Suicide, 1967) suggest that social research on ...