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Learning about suicide: who would bear the whips and scorns of time?

Learning about suicide: who would bear the whips and scorns of time?
Learning about suicide: who would bear the whips and scorns of time?
By way of a review of the reissue of Durkheim's Suicide this article offers an evaluation of Durkheim's monograph in the light of current thinking about suicide and the recent and growing work in Durkheimian studies. The question of moral order is also addressed and is related to social capital theory and the development of communitarianism. The matter of increased and unpredicted suicide rates among young men (especially in prison) in the UK is discussed and linked to educational provision for disaffected pupils and to the development of sustainable individual identity. It is posited that a conceptualization of this problem through Durkheimian sociology can provide a better understanding of the phenomenon than many existing approaches to the issue.
suicide, biography
0967-5507
63-76
Erben, Michael
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Erben, Michael
5c72b25b-7c00-409d-a850-1a7654be0858

Erben, Michael (2004) Learning about suicide: who would bear the whips and scorns of time? Auto/Biography, 12 (1), 63-76. (doi:10.1191/0967550704ab006ra).

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By way of a review of the reissue of Durkheim's Suicide this article offers an evaluation of Durkheim's monograph in the light of current thinking about suicide and the recent and growing work in Durkheimian studies. The question of moral order is also addressed and is related to social capital theory and the development of communitarianism. The matter of increased and unpredicted suicide rates among young men (especially in prison) in the UK is discussed and linked to educational provision for disaffected pupils and to the development of sustainable individual identity. It is posited that a conceptualization of this problem through Durkheimian sociology can provide a better understanding of the phenomenon than many existing approaches to the issue.

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Published date: 2004
Keywords: suicide, biography

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Local EPrints ID: 26724
URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/26724
ISSN: 0967-5507
PURE UUID: 735e7f08-a064-4114-8ac6-354a19b1784a

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Date deposited: 19 Apr 2006
Last modified: 15 Mar 2024 07:13

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