Durkheim studied suicide in a variety of countries and regions in order to establish the reasons why people commit suicide.
He conluded that there are four main reasons why people commit suicide:
- Egoistic Suicide - whereby people commit suicide for selfish reasons
- Altrusitic Suicide - whereby people commit suicide for the good of others
- Anomie - where people have lost their norms and values and commit suicide because of the uncertainty
- Fatalistic suicide - Whereby people commit suicide in highly oppressive environments as they feel that there is no longer anything to live for such as prisons.
Durkheim beleived that Suicide was linked to his theory of social cohesion whereby the better a person is integrated within society the less likely they are to commit suicide and it is people who lose sight of this and become seperate from society that are pushed to commit suicide.
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