Wednesday, December 10, 2014

Discuss suicide as a social fact. While explaining the typology of suicide according to Durkheim, bring out the destabilizing role of anomic in modern societies. (300 Words)

The question demanded more elaboration on Anomic suicide. So you could cut down on other three forms and focussed on Anomic one.
Also ,one thing I observed in other answers as well . We need to explicitly establish how Durkheim considered Suicide as social fact. Many places there are traces but I suppose we need to elaborate.
I hope this might help . Please share your viewpoint
Social Fact is ( Suicide )

  1. Thing and studied empirically ( Durkheim studied suicide by collection of statistical data .. So it is a thing)
  2. External to individual ( Suicide happend even when individual is not neurotic and also it happens to all . So cause is outside individual , in society )
  3. Coercive on Individual ( He said Boom -> Individualism -> Monotony - > Depression -> forces individual to suicide )
  4. explained by other social facts ( Suicide explained by Integration and Regulation )

So considering all these we can say Suicide is a social fact

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