Suicide and Predicament: Life is a Predicament

SOCIOLOGY AND SUICIDE

Author(s): Saxby Pridmore

Pp: 79-94 (16)

DOI: 10.2174/978160805169411001010079

Abstract

Durkheim argued that suicide is largely a social phenomenon. He did not deny vulnerability of individuals due to what would now be called mental disorder, as is commonly stated. He found that the regulation and support provided by society to the individual (these could be too little or too much) were the key to suicide. He described egoistic, anomic, altruistic and fatalistic forms of suicides. These ideas are assessed and supplemented with current research. Bullying and the influence modern communication systems have on suicide are mentioned, and examples from the public record are detailed.

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