Durkheim’s Sociological Analysis of Suicide - Sociology Mind

SM > Vol.10 No.2, April 2020

Durkheim’s Sociological Analysis of Suicide ()

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DOI: 10.4236/sm.2020.102007 1,184 Downloads 13,134 Views Citations

Author(s)

Steven Gerardi, Ph.D

Affiliation(s)

Professor Emeritus for Sociology, New York City College of Technology (CUNY), Brooklyn, NY, USA.

ABSTRACT

This effort will suggest that Durkheim argued that suicide is a function of the levels of Social Integration into the Conscience Collective of the social group. Consistent with his hypothesis, Durkheim identified four forms of suicide and their related levels (high/low) of social integration affecting the personal act of suicide. Lastly, this effort is not a traditional research project, as was mentioned above; rather is reevaluation of a classical sociological theory.

KEYWORDS

Conscience Collective, Mechanical/Organic Solidarity, Suicide, Egoism, Anomie, Fatalism, Altruism

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Gerardi, Ph.D, S. (2020) Durkheim’s Sociological Analysis of Suicide. Sociology Mind, 10, 82-85. doi: 10.4236/sm.2020.102007.

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