Durkheim's Theory Of Suicide Essay

1. Two specific factors that Durkheim sees as central for explaining varying rates of suicide are suicide is connected to social factors and that low integration increases suicide. Durkheim’s four types of are anomic suicide, altruistic suicide, egoistic suicide, and fatalistic suicide. An example of a person who would commit anomic suicide would be a person living during the times of the great depression. This person would be stressed from losing money and the duration of the great depression would make it seem as if there was no end in sight. The person would feel as if his life goals would not be reachable; therefore, this person would view their life as without cause. A person most likely to commit altruistic suicide would feel like they needed to die for their loyalty of their group. These people put their …show more content…
This relates to low integration because people pull away from these groups when too restricting and the regulations of these groups can prevent them from having more social groups. From the suicide prevention PDF, there were three sections that I saw to fit for Durkheim’s theory of suicide. First, the PDF states that young men are more likely to commit suicide than women and they are more likely to express their depression through deviant behavior such as drinking or drug use. Because of this deviant behavior more commonly found amongst men, men could tend to feel less regulated than women which leads to more suicides among men. This relates to Durkheim’s theory that men are more likely to commit suicide specifically anomic suicide. This is able to connect back to social factors and less integration because it is essentially describing that a man may have less social institutions and may not feel bound to social institutions to make him feel regulated which in turn causes the man to be less