The Study of Suicide - Sociology

 September 30, 2021

Yazzie Stein

Mr. Roddy

IHSS


The Study of Suicide


In 1897, French sociologist Émile Durkheim wrote and published a book called “Le Suicide” for psychology students about suicide’s origins, individual causes, and how suicide rates differed among different religions. Suicide was not spoken of and very groundbreaking at the time, and when studying the suicide rates in Protestants vs Catholics, found that fewer Catholics commited suicide because of more intense social control. Some more stats he discovered about suicide rates were that that suicide was more common among men than women, specifically single men, that people with children were less likely to commit suicide, and that soldiers and veterans commited a high percentage of suicide (“rates of suicide are higher during peacetime than they are during wars”) These findings, he mentions, speaks on social (integration) and psychological impact on a person and their likelihood of committing suicide, finding that the more socially integrated someone is, the less likely they are to commit suicide as they feel more understood and accepted into a community. Less alone. Isolation, it seems, is the root of many suicides as there is no feeling of understanding or love or community, and the person feels alone in all their troubles. This may tie into one of the reasons so many soldiers commit suicide, as they have seen unspeakable things and have not many people to share these experiences with. They feel that they no longer fit with their family and friends and isolate themselves, the only way to escape the visions of what they saw and did being self-isolation. Durkheim created a typology of suicide, containting the catergories of Anomic suicide, Altruistic suicide, Egoistic suicide, and Fatalistic suicide. Anomic, being caused by isolation and the feeling of disconnection, Altruistic being suicide for the cause of society, Egoistic is generally people that feel detached from society, and Fatalistic, an attempt to escape from oppressive conditions. 

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