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Durkheim Research on Suicide

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&NewLine;<&sol;script>&NewLine;<&sol;div>&NewLine;<p align&equals;"justify">Emile Durkheim conducted a research in 1869&comma; on suicide rate in three countries&comma; Denmark England and France&period; He was not interested in determining the personality traits of the individuals who committed suicide&comma; however&comma; he wanted to identify social links in the countries which influence the rate of suicide&period; His prime objective of the research was to study the social facts &lpar;beliefs&comma; value&comma; norms and culture&rpar; of the countries which have impact on suicide rate&period; <br &sol;>&NewLine;The statistics of his research state that&comma; in England 67 individuals committed out of per million inhabitants&comma; however&comma; in France 137 people committed suicide out of per million inhabitants&comma; whereas highest rate of suicide was in Denmark 277 people committed suicide out of per million inhabitants&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p align&equals;"justify">Emile Durkheim got curious about the high rate of suicide in Denmark&period; He wondered why Denmark have such a high rate of suicide compare to England and France&period; To find out the answer behind his curiosity&comma; he considered social factor which might influence the behavior of individual to commit suicide&period; Those social factor are given below&semi;&nbsp&semi; <br &sol;>&NewLine;• Level of solidarity and cohesiveness in society <&sol;p>&NewLine;<p align&equals;"justify">• Individual standing within a society <&sol;p>&NewLine;<p align&equals;"justify">• Individual position in religious&comma; social and occupational group <&sol;p>&NewLine;<p align&equals;"justify">Durkheim identified that&comma; suicide is committed by individual but the reason behind this act is hidden in the social life and group of the individual&period;&NewLine;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<h2 align&equals;"justify">Findings of Durkheim Research<&sol;h2>&NewLine;<p align&equals;"justify">Findings of Durkheim research was based on correlation between some social factor and suicide rate such as&comma; there is relationship between being married or single with suicide rate&comma; people economic position and suicide rate and occupation of people and suicide rate&period; Detailed findings of Emile Durkheim research on suicide are given below&period;&NewLine;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<h3 align&equals;"justify">Integration<&sol;h3>&NewLine;<p align&equals;"justify">The connectedness of individual with a group is called integration&period; The more individual is connected&comma; loved and wanted by a group the lower is the chances of committing suicide&period; Individual who are not wanted or associated with a group&comma; higher the chances of committing suicide&period; &NewLine;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<h3 align&equals;"justify">Religion<&sol;h3>&NewLine;<p align&equals;"justify">Individual who is not affiliated with any religion&comma; has a higher probability of committing suicide&period; According to Durkheim finding Protestants have high rate committing suicide compare to Jews and Catholics&NewLine;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<h3 align&equals;"justify">Marriage<&sol;h3>&NewLine;<p align&equals;"justify">Individual who is not married or single has a higher rate of committing suicide compare to the married individual&period; Because married individual is more connected and integrated with group than single individual&period;&NewLine;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<h3 align&equals;"justify">Military <&sol;h3>&NewLine;<p align&equals;"justify">Soldiers have higher rate of committing suicide compare to civilians&period;&NewLine;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<h3 align&equals;"justify">Economy<&sol;h3>&NewLine;<p align&equals;"justify"> When the economic conditions of a country is unstable there is higher chance of committing suicide by individual compare to the time of prosperity&period;&NewLine;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<h3 align&equals;"justify">Peace and War<&sol;h3>&NewLine;<p align&equals;"justify"> The probability of committing suicide in the time of peace is higher than in the time of war&period;&NewLine;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<h3 align&equals;"justify">Wealth<&sol;h3>&NewLine;<p align&equals;"justify"> Individuals who are wealthy have higher probability of committing suicide than middle class and lower class individuals&period;&NewLine;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<h3 align&equals;"justify">Sex&sol;Gender <&sol;h3>&NewLine;<p align&equals;"justify">Males have higher rate of suicide compare to females&period;&NewLine;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<h3 align&equals;"justify">Race <&sol;h3>&NewLine;<p align&equals;"justify">The rate of committing suicide in white people are higher than colored people&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<&excl;--CusAds0-->&NewLine;<div style&equals;"font-size&colon; 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