Suicide

Question 1

Atkinson

Answer 1

Ethnomethodology- social reality is simply a construct of its members. 
Coroners categorising death:
Suicide note
Mode of death
Location and circumstances
Life history

Question 2

Taylor

Answer 2

4 types of suicide:

1. Submissive- person is certain about themselves e.g know they have no future.
2. Thanatation- uncertain of themselves e.g uncertain about what others think of them, suicide involves risk taking.
3. Sacrifice- certain about others and know they have to die.
4. Appeal- person is uncertain about others.

Question 3

Durkheim

Answer 3

Sociology can be a science.
Using quantitative data from official statistics Durkheim found:
1. Suicide rates for a society remain more or less the same.
2. When the rates did change it coincided with other changes.
3. Different societies have different rates.
4. Rates varies between different social groups.
4 types of suicide
1. Egotistic- too little social integration.
2. Altruistic- too much social integration.
3. Anomic- too little moral regulation.
4. Fatalistic- too much moral regulation.

Question 4

Douglas

Answer 4

Interactionist approach
Meaning suicide for deceased.
1. Use of suicide stats- decision to classify a death as suicide is down to coroner.
2. Meanings- what the act for those killed means.