Suicide

Question 1

Durkheim

Answer 1

Through his study of official statistics Durkheim found that suicide could be explained through too much or too little integration or regulation. As a Structuralist, he believes in social facts

Question 2

Atkinson

Answer 2

We will never fully understand the meanings and motives behind a suicide, all you can study is the coroner’s decisions, based on common sense assumptions; e.g. was there a suicide note?

Question 3

Douglas

Answer 3

In order to understand suicide we need to use qualitative methods to gain meanings, e.g. suicide notes