A Social Disorganizational Theory of Suicide 1
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12136010 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Seth Abrutyn (0000-0001-6220-3362, The Department of Sociology University of British Columbia 6303 NW Marine Drive Vancouver British Columbia Canada V6T 1Z1, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2023 |
| Volume | 38 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 298-323 |
| Publication date | 2023-03-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Sociological Forum (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0884-8971 • E-ISSN: 1573-7861 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/socf.12882 |
| OpenAlex | W4322739687 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 6 |
| References cited | 74 |
Over the last 20 years, suicide rates have grown across most demographic groups in the United States, making the sociological study of suicide as imperative now as it was in Durkheim's day. For the most part, however, sociologists study suicide solely using Durkheim's analytic strategy. The following article recovers a text on suicide long since forgotten by sociology. Divided into three parts, the article begins first by revisiting Ruth Cavan's social disorganizational theory of suicide, eventually culminating in a formalization of her theory. Second, the article brings contemporary social scientific ideas to bear on her theory to modify and extend its empirical utility. Third, the article considers the implications this theoretical exercise has for an increasingly vibrant and creative sociology of suicide
Criminology · Empirical research · Epistemology · History of sociology · Poison control · Social science · Social theory · Sociological theory · Sociology · Suicide prevention · Contemporary Sociological Theory and Practice · Crime, Deviance, and Social Control · Suicide and Self-Harm Studies
Everything in its path
Heat Wave
Life Beside Itself
Psychological autopsy studies of suicide
The Three-Step Theory (3ST)
Suicide
Suicide
The Social Roots of Suicide
The Emerging Neuroscience of Intrinsic Motivation
Rising morbidity and mortality in midlife among white non-Hispanic Americans in the 21st century
Suicide
Working papers in the theory of action
Character and Social Structure
Suicide in Small-Scale Societies
Latinas Attempting Suicide
In Pursuit of the Good Life
Rekeying Cultural Scripts for Youth Suicide
The Neural Bases of Social Pain
Ruth Shonle Cavan (1896-1993)
Depression in Japan
Marriage and Suicide among Chinese Rural Young Women
Anarchy in the UK
Prevalence and Correlates of Suicidal Ideation and Attempt According to Prisoners’ Race/Ethnicity
Beliefs About Suicide Acceptability in the United States
Fight‐or‐Flight for America
Suicide as Social Control 1
Culturally Responsive Suicide Prevention in Indigenous Communities
Deprivation, importation, and prison suicide
A predictive processing theory of motivation
Violent Death in the City
Toward a sociological theory of social pain
What Hindu Sati can teach us about the sociocultural and social psychological dynamics of suicide
A Motivational Theory of Roles, Rewards, and Institutions
Social Structure and Anomie
Durkheim's One Cause of Suicide
Cultural scripts for a good death in Japan and the United States
Adolescents under Pressure
Better dead than dishonored
Cultural trauma as a fundamental cause of health disparities
Social Control and Youth Suicidality
Improving Cultural Analysis
Shame, Guilt, and Violence
Toward a General Theory of Anomie The Social Psychology of Disintegration
Disaster, Litigation, and the Corrosive Community
Asylums
Gender, Culture, and Suicidal Behavior
Schemas and Frames
What Are Dual Process Models? Implications for Cultural Analysis in Sociology
The Social Autopsy
How and Why Interviews Work
Self-injury as Embodied Emotion Work
Culture and Cognition
The Social Consequences of Disasters
The Sociology of Suicide
Making Sense of Culture
The Stratification of Emotions
Motivation and Justification
Community Structure and Crime
| Unique citing works | 6 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 3 |
| Citation span | 2024 - 2026 (3) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 6 |