Durkheim-Study Of Sucide
EXAMINE THE VIEW THAT Durkheim DID NOT PRODUCE AN ADEQUATE ACCOUNT OF SUICIDE (21 MARKS) some sociologists such as interpretivisits believe that Durkheim’s account of the study of suicide is not an adequate account, However, Durkheim believed that his study of suicide was valued in understanding the individual act.
Durkheim’s suicide was the first major positivist to study suicide. Positivism is an approach that suggests the same quantitative methods derived from observable and measurable data that scientists use to study the natural world to discover the causes of phenomena could also be used to study the social world. Durkheim wanted to prove that sociology could be regarded as a science by using methods adopted from the positive sciences; sociology could be objective and produce reliable, quantitative data. it was also about the fact that our behaviour is a product of the society in which we live in; he believed that even suicide is a product of society. Durkheim used the comparative method, comparing the suicide rates from different European counties, over a given period of time. Durkheim considered the suicides statistics to be social facts and can be an accurate measure of people who had taken their own lives. Furthermore, he found that the suicide statistics in each country to be constant over a set period of years and he also found that some countries have more suicides than others.
Durkheim's analysis on suicide was determined not by a person’s psychological state but rather on the social bonds that binds an individual to society, this is linked to two main factors Social integration and Moral regulation. Durkheim believed that there are four types of suicide linked to both factors; Egoistic Altruistic suicide is linked to social integration and Anomic and Fatalistic is linked to social regulation. EQUILIBRIUM of integration and regulation must appropriate, if there is Any imbalance increases suicide.
In contrast, Interpretivist have criticised
Durkheim’s suicide was the first major positivist to study suicide. Positivism is an approach that suggests the same quantitative methods derived from observable and measurable data that scientists use to study the natural world to discover the causes of phenomena could also be used to study the social world. Durkheim wanted to prove that sociology could be regarded as a science by using methods adopted from the positive sciences; sociology could be objective and produce reliable, quantitative data. it was also about the fact that our behaviour is a product of the society in which we live in; he believed that even suicide is a product of society. Durkheim used the comparative method, comparing the suicide rates from different European counties, over a given period of time. Durkheim considered the suicides statistics to be social facts and can be an accurate measure of people who had taken their own lives. Furthermore, he found that the suicide statistics in each country to be constant over a set period of years and he also found that some countries have more suicides than others.
Durkheim's analysis on suicide was determined not by a person’s psychological state but rather on the social bonds that binds an individual to society, this is linked to two main factors Social integration and Moral regulation. Durkheim believed that there are four types of suicide linked to both factors; Egoistic Altruistic suicide is linked to social integration and Anomic and Fatalistic is linked to social regulation. EQUILIBRIUM of integration and regulation must appropriate, if there is Any imbalance increases suicide.
In contrast, Interpretivist have criticised