Perspectives

Question 1

Halbwachs (context to Durkheims research on suicide)

Answer 1

Overestimated the role of religion

- suggested living in urban rather than rural areas was a key factor

Question 2

Gibbs and Martin

Answer 2

Argue that durkheims concept of social integration is too vague- to them he didn’t not operationalise social integration

Question 3

Relied on

Answer 3

Official statistics too much and these statistics may have been invalid and incomplete
19th century knowledge of causes on death was limitied
- many countries lacked organisational structures needed to collect reliable statistics on suicides