Identify factors that might promote each of the types of suicide Durkheim's typology with respect to...

Identify factors that might promote each of the types of suicide Durkheim's typology with respect to the U.S. military

Egoistic Suicide

Altruistic Suicide

Anomic Suicide

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David Emilie Durkheim was a French sociologist whose work created a revolution in the field of sociology. Emilie Durkheim's theories attempted to explain the structure and function of society. Durkheim's work 'On suicide' is a classic text of case study which attempts to explain the in depth social causes of suicide.

Egoistic suicide is a typology used by durkheim which states that a person commits suicide as they don't feel a sense of belonging with the society. Weak or very little social bonds are present with the society. Factors that might promote such suicide with respect to US military are:

Veterans are away from the conventional society, familial bonds for a long period of time. This creates a lack of integration or low integration within the society for the veterans at war.
Because of this they lack a sense of belonging with the society. Important events of the family are unattended.
A sense of meaninglessness, depression and loneliness can occur because of a lack of integration within the society.
All these interlinked factors thus lead to egoistic suicide.

Altruistic suicide:

Altruistic suicide occurs when there is a high integration within the society(for the veterans the high number of goals and expectations that they are supposed to fulfill on the war front) but individual needs are considered unimportant.
This leads to a feeling of overwhelm within the veterans coupled with a sense of lack of individualisation, as the individual becomes more nd more unreal to him.
Thus this sense of overwhelm, sadness along with a sense of duty to die.
This suicide occurs at the least of dissapointments such as refusal for leave, punishment, lack of promotion etc.

Anomic suicide:

Atomic suicide occurs in situation of sudden social and economic upheaval leasing to individual's normal confusion as well as lack of social direction.
Regulation is lacking in this case.
In US military this can occur when there is a sudden promotion or vacation and the veteran is expected to be home for longer periods of time.
Suddenly the individual feels a lack of direction and is unable to cope up with the sudden change.
Thus a constant state of dissapointment occurs which can lead to suicide.

Hayet Jeridi answered 1 year ago

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