Sociology Reading and Small-scale research; Talulah

 In Emilie durkmans book, he argues that suicide is a result of societal, pressure, changes, and lack of integration. He disagrees with the fact that suicide is an individual/personal act, and is instead says that suicide is a result of social disorganization and social solidarity. In his book, he organized reasons for suicide into 4 categories, egoistic, altruistic, anomic, and fatalistic. Egoistic suicide, as Durkheim explains, is caused by social isolation or feeling out of place in society. When someone, who’s especially self-centered, feels like they’ve been cut off from society, whether it be from work, family, or social life, or feels they have no place in society they start to self-destruct. This eventually leads to suicide because, with the loss of social integration, they’ve also lost the meaning of life (in their eyes). Altruistic suicide occurs when someone is overly integrated with society, specifically a religious or cultural group, where they are willing to commit suicide to benefit the group. Examples would be the 9/11 suicide bombers. Anomic suicide occurs when sudden changes hit that person’s life and makes them feel disconnected from society. Examples would be suicide after winning the lottery or after filing bankruptcy. Falatlitic suicide is the result of overregulation and the feeling of social constraint. Examples would be prisoners or people living in countries under extreme dictatorships. The person would rather die than keep living under oppressive conditions. 

Durkheim’s theory helped many people understand how society contributed to suicide, but he fails to address the individual and biological reasoning behind suicide. Making his theory very one-sided.  

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