Discuss the various forms of suicide defined by Durkheim. Explain why Durkheim’s work Suicide is significant for the discipline of sociology.
What will be an ideal response?
Durkheim and quantitative study. He used the term egoism to refer to the lack of integration of the individual in the social group. He used the term anomie to refer to a lack of moral regulation. Durkheim argued that both of these conditions—egoism and anomie—are “chronic” in modern, industrial society; and that in extreme, pathological form, both egoism and anomie can result in suicide. For Durkheim, egoistic suicide results from a pathological weakening of the bonds between the individual and the social group. Durkheim saw an increase in egoistic suicide as a “natural” outgrowth of the individuation of modern, industrial societies. Durkheim argued that in its extreme form the type of social isolation found in modern societies can be—literally—fatal.
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