Sucicide Flashcards
What is a criticism of Durkheim (suicide)
Naive doesn’t check reliability and validity
What does s Taylor suggest about (suicide)
Many of durkheims concepts aren’t testable there’s no scientific do can’t be described as traditional positivist
What do anti positivist a suggest about durkheims work (suicide)
All his basis is incorrect
What does the interpretivist j d Douglas argue about (suicide)
Critical of the use of suicide stats
Coroners make descision a that can be influence by others
Systematic bias
Studies must look at motives
What does Jean baechler suggest about case studies (suicide)
Uses case studies already available in literature and classifies suicide according to their meanings
Sees suicide as an attempt to solve a problem
What are baechlers four types of suicide (suicide)
Escapist suicide
Aggressive suicide
Oblative suicide way of solving something valued by suicide victim
Ludic suicide taking deliberate risk
What does Atkinson argue about suicide and phenomenology (suicide)
Real rate of suicide doesn’t exist
Argues coroners have a common sense theory of auicide
Continues consider four types of evidence :
Whether notes left
Mode of death
Locations and circumstances
Biography of deceased with reference to mental state
What are Durkheim four types of suicide (suicide)
1 egoistic suicide resulted from invidiuals being insufficient inter grated into society
2 anomic when society doesn’t regulate the person sufficiently when Norms and values disrupted by rapid social change
3 altruistic over integration into society sacrifices for greater good
4 fatalistic over regulation slavery powerless over fate
What does Steve Taylor suggest about suicide (suicide)
Argues suicide stats are unreliable and can’t be taken with face value
Doesn’t agree with the phenomenologicalist that such problems make it impossible to explain suicide
Realist emphasises the simulators between natural and social science
What are Steve Taylor’s 4 types of suicide
submissive
Thenatontion
Sacrifice
Appeal
