The Durkheim-Tarde debate and the social study of aboriginal youth suicide

Datos Bibliográficos

ID2395028
AutoresRonald Niezen (McGill University, autor de correspondencia)
Año2015
Volumen52
Número1
Páginas96-114
Fecha de publicación2015-02-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaTranscultural Psychiatry (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 1363-4615 • E-ISSN: 1461-7471
EditorialSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1177/1363461514557560
PMID25361691
OpenAlexW2138524240
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas6
Referencias citadas38

A debate that took place in France in the early 20th century still has much to tell us about the interpretation and strategies of intervention of suicide, particularly the "cohort effect" of aboriginal youth suicide. The act of suicide, for Durkheim, was inseparable from the problem of social cohesion, with extremes in solidarity and regulation predictably reflected in high rates of suicide. For Gabriel Tarde, by contrast, suicide was seen as an outcome of changeable ideas found in processes of innovation and imitation among creatively receptive individuals. This latter approach remains overlooked in favor of a growing reliance on conceptions of historical trauma and conditions of social disintegration. Recognizing the idea of suicide itself as a potential locus of solidarity opens up other possibilities for responding to and intervening in suicide crises or "clusters

Criminology · Imitation · Poison control · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Solidarity · Suicide prevention · Education, sociology, and vocational training · Gender Studies · Historical and Scientific Studies · Law · Medicine · Psychoanalysis and Psychopathology Research · Psychology · Social Psychology