labelling mental illness and suicide

Question 1

what did Durkheim use as his backing o finding out the reason for suicide?

Answer 1

Durkheim used official statistics in order to try and find the causes of suicide

Question 2

How did interactionist oppose him?

Answer 2

They said how to understand suicide that you must instead try and study the meaning for those who kill themselves

Question 3

What did Jack Douglass say about suicide?

Answer 3

• He spoke about how official statistics are socially constructed
• also that suicide is decided upon by those around us like coroners, police
• That people may mislabel the suicide to try and cover u blunders or for superficial reasons
• only way to find the reasons is by using qualitative data

Question 4

What did Atkinson have to say about suicide?

Answer 4

Atkinson spoke on how

• suicide stats re merely a record of labels attached by coroners
• we can never truly find out the reasons for death
• Suicide labels are based on “taken for granted assumptions”

Question 5

what are interactionist view on mental illness?

Answer 5

They believe that the stats on mental illness are also socially constructed similar to those of criminals are constructed.
- This time people like psychiatrists are the ones which attach those labels to them.

Question 6

What are some evaluations for this topic?

Answer 6

• demonstrates that crime stats are just a product of social control
• however it can be too deterministic