What is a Sociological Autopsy?

The dichotomies and oppositions that permeate the sociology of suicide have given rise to very different research strategies, though quantitative approaches in the Durkheimian tradition remain dominant. Our emphasis on the need to transcend artificial divisions in understanding, whether they be based on agency and structure, the individual and the social, psychology and sociology, carries over into the methodological realm. The central problem here was neatly encapsulated by Kay Redfield Jamison (2000: 20), professor of psychiatry at Johns Hopkins University and herself a survivor of suicide attempts, when she wrote: It should not be necessary, at the end of a century so rich in literature, medicine, psychology, and science, to draw arbitrary lines in the sand between humanism and individual complexities, on the one hand, and clinical or scientific understandings, on the other. That they are bound and beholden to each other should be obvious. Yet it is undeniable that Maginot Lines exist. These keywords were added by machine and not by the authors. This process is experimental and the keywords may be updated as the learning algorithm improves.

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• Comment enquêter qualitativement sur le suicide

  Nicolas Deffontaines•Genèses•2019

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