Suicide Flashcards

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Durkheim

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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

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Atkinson

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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?

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Douglas

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

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