Toward a Cultural-Structural Theory of Suicide: Examining Excessive Regulation and Its Discontents
Abstract
Despite its enduring insights, Durkheim’s theory of suicide fails to account for a significant set of cases because of its overreliance on structural forces to the detriment of other possible factors. In this paper, we develop a new theoretical framework for thinking about the role of culture in vulnerability to suicide. We argue that by focusing on the cultural dynamics of excessive regulation, particularly at the meso level, a more robust sociological model for suicide could be offered that supplements structure-heavy Durkheimian theory. In essence, we argue that the relevance of cultural regulation to suicide rests on the (1) degree to which culture is coherent in sociocultural places, (2) existence of directives related to prescribing or proscribing suicide, (3) degree to which these directives translate into internalized meanings affecting social psychological processes, and (4) degree to which the social space is bounded. We then illustrate how our new theory provides useful insights into three cases of suicide largely neglected within sociology: specifically, suicide clusters in high schools, suicide in the military, and suicides of “despair” among middle-aged white men. We conclude with implications for future sociological research on suicide and suicide prevention.
Get full access to this article
View all access and purchase options for this article.
References
Abrutyn Seth. 2014. Revisiting Institutionalism in Sociology: Putting the “Institution” Back in Institutional Analysis. New York: Routledge.
Abrutyn Seth, Mueller Anna S. 2014a. “Are Suicidal Behaviors Contagious? Using Longitudinal Data to Examine Suicide Suggestion.” American Sociological Review 79(2):211–27.
Abrutyn Seth, Mueller Anna S. 2014b. “Reconsidering Durkheim’s Assessment of Tarde: Formalizing a Tardian Theory of Imitation, Contagion, and Suicide Suggestion.” Sociological Forum 29(3):698–719.
Abrutyn Seth, Mueller Anna S. 2014c. “The Socioemotional Foundations of Suicide: A Microsociological View of Durkheim’s Suicide.” Sociological Theory 32(4):327–51.
Abrutyn Seth, Mueller Anna S. 2016. “When Too Much Integration and Regulation Hurt: Re-envisioning Durkheim’s Altruistic Suicide.” Society and Mental Health 6(1):56–71.
Adinkrah Mensah. 2012. “Better Dead Than Dishonored: Masculinity and Male Suicidal Behavior in Contemporary Ghana.” Social Science and Medicine 74(4):474–81.
Aliverdinia A., Pridemore W. A. 2009. “Women’s Fatalistic Suicide in Iran: A Partial Test of Durkehim in an Islamic Republic.” Violence Against Women 15(3):307–20.
Anderson Elijah. 1999. Code of the Street: Decency, Violence, and the Moral Life of the Inner City. New York: W.W. Norton.
Baechler Jean. 1979. Suicides. New York: Basic Books.
Baller Robert D., Richardson Kelly K. 2002. “Social Integration, Imitation, and the Geographic Patterning of Suicide.” American Sociological Review 67(6):873–88.
Barbagli Marzio. 2015. Farewell to the World: A History of Suicide. Cambridge, UK: Polity.
Bearman Peter S. 1991. “The Social Structure of Suicide.” Sociological Forum 6(3):501–24.
Becker Howard S. 1963. Outsiders. New York: Free Press.
Berger Joseph, Cohen Bernard P., Zelditch Morris Jr. 1972. “Status Characteristics and Social Interaction.” American Sociological Review 37(3):241–55.
Berger Joseph, Ridgeway Cecilia L., Fisek M. Hamit, Norman Robert Z. 1998. “The Legitimation and Delegitimation of Power and Prestige Orders.” American Sociological Review 63(3):379–405.
Berger Peter. 1969. The Sacred Canopy: Elements of a Sociological Theory of Religion. New York: Anchor Books.
Blumer Herbert. 1969. Symbolic Interactionism: Perspective and Method. Berkeley: University of California Press.
Boldt Menno. 1988. “The Meaning of Suicide: Implications for Research.” Crisis: The Journal of Crisis Intervention and Suicide Prevention 9(2):93–108.
Braswell Harold, Kushner Howard I. 2012. “Suicide, Social Integration, and Masculinity in the U.S. Military.” Social Science & Medicine 74(4):530–36.
Breault K. D. 1994. “Was Durkheim Right? A Critical Survey of the Empirical Literature on Le Suicide.” Pp. 11–29 in Emile Durkheim: Le Suicide 100 Years Later, edited by Lester D. Philadelphia, PA: The Charles Press.
Burke Peter J., Reitzes Donald C. 1981. “The Link between Identities and Role Performance.” Social Psychology Quarterly 44(2):83–92.
Burke Peter J., Stets Jan E. 2009. Identity Theory. New York: Oxford University Press.
Canetto Silvia Sara. 1997. “Meanings of Gender and Suicidal Behavior during Adolescence.” Suicide and Life-Threatening Behavior 27(4):339–51.
Canetto Silvia Sara. 2017. “Suicide: Why Are Older Men So Vulnerable?” Men and Masculinities 20(1):49–70.
Case Anne, Deaton Angus. 2015. “Rising Morbidity and Mortality in Midlife among White Non-Hispanic Americans in the 21st Century.” Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 112(49):15078–83.
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. 2016. “Suicide Facts at a Glance.” Retrieved January 20, 2018 (http://www.cdc.gov/violenceprevention/pdf/suicide-datasheet-a.pdf).
Cha Christine B., Nock Matthew K. 2014. “Suicidal and Nonsuicidal Self-injurious Thoughts and Behaviors.” Pp. 317–42 in Child Psychopathology. 3rd ed., edited by Mash E. J., Barkley R. A. New York: The Guilford Press.
Chua Jocelyn Lim. 2014. In Pursuit of the Good Life: Aspiration and Suicide in Globalizing South India. Berkeley: University of California Press.
Cleary Anne. 2012. “A Suicidal Action, Emotional Expression, and the Performance of Masculinities.” Social Science and Medicine 74(4):498–505.
Cohen Dov. 2003. “The American National Conversation about (Everything but) Shame.” Social Research 70(4):1073–108.
Coleman James S. 1961. The Adolescent Society: The Social Life of the Teenager and Its Impact on Education. Glencoe, IL: The Free Press.
Coleman James S. 1988. “Social Capital in the Creation of Human Capital.” American Journal of Sociology 94(Supplement):S95–120.
Collins Randall. 2004. Interaction Ritual Chains. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press.
Colucci Erminia. 2006. “The Cultural Facet of Suicidal Behaviour: Its Importance and Neglect.” Australian e-Journal for the Advancement of Mental Health 5(3):234–46.
Colucci Erminia, Lester David eds. 2012. Suicide and Culture. Cambridge, MA: Hogrefe.
Coser Lewis. 1974. Greedy Institutions: Patterns of Undivided Commitment. New York: Free Press.
Crosnoe Robert, Johnson Monica Kirkpatrick. 2011. “Research on Adolescence in the Twenty-first Century.” Annual Review of Sociology 37:439–60.
Douglas Jack D. 1967. The Social Meaning of Suicide. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press.
Durkheim Émile. [1897] 1951. Suicide: A Study in Sociology. Glencoe, Il: Free Press.
Durkheim Émile. [1912] 1995. The Elementary Forms of Religious Life. New York: Free Press.
Durkheim Émile. [1893] 1997. The Division of Labor in Society. New York: The Free Press.
Eaton K. M., Messer S. C., Garvey Wilson A. L., Hoge C. W. 2006. “Strengthening the Validity of Population-based Suicide Rate Comparisons: An Illustration Using US Military and Civilian Data.” Suicide and Life-Threatening Behavior 36(2):182–91.
Ebaugh Helen R. F. 1988. Becoming an Ex: The Process of Role Exit. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press.
Eder Donna, Evans Catherine Colleen, Parker Stephen. 1995. School Talk: Gender and Adolescent Culture. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press.
Farberow Norman L., ed. 1975. Suicide in Different Cultures. Baltimore, MD: University Park Press.
Fei Wu. 2010. Suicide and Justice: A Chinese Perspective. London: Routledge.
Fine Gary Alan. 2010. “The Sociology of the Local: Action and Its Publics.” Sociological Theory 28(4):355–76.
Friedkin Noah E. 2004. “Social Cohesion.” Annual Review of Sociology 30:409–25.
Gilligan James. 2003. “Shame, Guilt, and Violence.” Social Research 70(4):1149–80.
Goffman Erving. 1961. Asylums: Essays on the Social Situation of Mental Patients and Other Inmates. Garden City, NY: Anchor Books.
Goffman Erving. 1967. Interaction Ritual: Essays on Face-to-face Behavior. New York: Pantheon Books.
Gould Madelyn S., Wallenstein Sylvan, Kleinman Marjorie. 1990. “Time-space Clustering of Teenage Suicide.” American Journal of Epidemiology 131(1):71–78.
Granato Stephani L., Smith Phillip N., Selwyn Candice N. 2015. “Acquired Capability and Masculine Gender Norm Adherence: Potential Pathways to Higher Rates of Male Suicide.” Psychology of Men and Masculinity 16(3):246–53.
Haw Camilla, Hawton Keith, Niedzwiedz Claire, Platt Steve. 2012. “Suicide Clusters: A Review of Risk Factors.” Suicide and Life-Threatening Behavior 43(1):97–108.
Hecht Jennifer Michael. 2013. Stay: A History of Suicide and Philosophies Against It. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press.
Hechter Michael. 1987. Principles of Group Solidarity. Berkeley: University of California Press.
Henrich Joseph. 2001. “Cultural Transmission and the Diffusion of Innovations: Adoption Dynamics Indicate That Biased Cultural Transmission Is the Predominate Force of Behavioral Change.” American Anthropologist 103(4):992–1013.
Hjelmeland Heidi. 2010. “Cultural Research in Suicidology: Challenges and Opportunities.” Suicidology Online 1(1):34–52.
Hochschild Arlie. 1983. The Managed Heart: Commercialization of Human Feeling. Berkeley: University of California Press.
Hoge Charles W., Castro Carl A. 2012. “Preventing Suicides in US Service Members and Veterans Concerns after a Decade of War.” JAMA 308(7):671–72.
Hogg Michael A. 2006. “Social Identity Theory.” Pp. 111–36 in Contemporary Social Psychological Theories, edited by Burke P. J. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press.
Jamison Kay Redfield. 2001. Night Falls Fast: Understanding Suicide. New York: Vintage.
Johnson Barclay. 1965. “Durkheim’s One Cause of Suicide.” American Sociological Review 30(6):875–86.
Kang Han K., Bullman Tim A. 2009. “Is There an Epidemic of Suicides among Current and Former U.S. Military Personnel?” Annals of Epidemiology 19(10):757–60.
Kanter Rosebeth Moss. 1968. “Commitment and Social Organization: A Study of Commitment Mechanisms in Utopian Communities.” American Sociological Review 33(4):499–51.
Kitanaka Junko. 2012. Depression in Japan: Psychiatric Cures for a Society in Distress. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press.
Klonsky E. David, May Alexis M. 2015. “The Three-step Theory (3ST): A New Theory of Suicide Rooted in the ‘Ideation-to-action’ Framework.” International Journal of Cognitive Therapy 8(2):114–29.
Kral Michael. 1994. “Suicide as Social Logic.” Suicide and Life-Threatening Behavior 24(3):245–55.
Kral Michael. 1998. “Suicide and the Internalization of Culture: Three Questions.” Transcultural Psychiatry 35(2):221–33.
Kushner Howard I., Sterk Claire E. 2005. “The Limits of Social Capital: Durkheim, Suicide, and Social Cohesion.” American Journal of Public Health 95(7):1–5.
Lawler Edward J. 1992. “Affective Attachments to Nested Groups: Choice-process Theory.” American Sociological Review 57(3):327–39.
Lawler Edward J., Thye Shane, Yoon Jeongkoo. 2009. Social Commitments in a Depersonalized World. New York: Russell Sage.
Lester David. 2012. “The Cultural Meaning of Suicide: What Does That Mean?” Omega 64(1):83–94.
Lester David, Stack Steven eds. 2015. Suicide as a Dramatic Performance. New York: Transaction.
Lewis Helen. 1971. Shame and Guilt in Neurosis. New York: International Universities Press.
Lizardo Omar, Strand Michael. 2010. “Skills, Toolkits, Contexts and Institutions: Clarifying the Relationship between Different Approaches to Cognition in Cultural Sociology.” Poetics 38(2):205–28.
Manning Jason. 2012. “Suicide as Social Control.” Sociological Forum 27(1):207–27.
Masters Ryan K., Tilstra Andrea M., Simon Daniel H. 2017. “Mortality from Suicide, Chronic Liver Disease, and Drug Poisonings among Middle-aged US White Men and Women, 198022013.” Biodemography and Social Biology 63(1):31–37.
McCall George J., Simmons J. L. 1978. Identities and Interactions. New York: Free Press.
McPherson J. Miller, Smith-Lovin Lynn, Brashears Matthew. 2006. “Social Isolation in America: Changes in Core Discussion Networks Over Two Decades.” American Sociological Review 71(3):353–75.
Miller M., Barber C., Young M., Azrael D., Mukamal K., Lawler E. 2012. “Veterans and Suicide: A Reexamination of the National Death Index-linked National Health Interview Survey.” American Journal of Public Health 102(51):S154–59.
Mohney Gillian. 2016. “Disturbing Suicide Cluster Prompts CDC to Start Investigation in Palo Alto.” ABC News, February 16. Retrieved January 20, 2018 (http://abcnews.go.com/Health/disturbing-suicide-cluster-prompts-cdc-start-investigation-palo/story?id=36953874).
Mueller Anna S. 2017. “Does the Media Matter to Suicide?: Examining the Social Dynamics Surrounding Media Reporting on Suicide in a Suicide-prone Community.” Social Science and Medicine 180:152–59.
Mueller Anna S., Abrutyn Seth. 2016. “Adolescents under Pressure: A New Durkheimian Framework for Understanding Adolescent Suicide in a Cohesive Community.” American Sociological Review 81(5):877–99.
Neimeyer Robert A., Klass Dennis, Dennis Michael Robert. 2014. “A Social Constructionist Account of Grief: Loss and the Narration of Meaning.” Death Studies 38(6–10):485–98.
Niedzwiedz Claire, Haw Camilla, Hawton Keith, Platt Stephan. 2014. “The Definition and Epidemiology of Clusters of Suicidal Behavior: A Systematic Review.” Suicide and Life-Threatening Behavior 44(5):569–81.
Niezen Ronald. 2009. “Suicide as a Way of Belonging: Causes and Consequences of Cluster Suicides in Aboriginal Communities.” Pp. 178–95 in Healing Traditions: The Mental Health of Aboriginal Peoples in Canada, edited by Kirmayer L. J., Guthrie Valaskakis G. Vancouver, BC: UBC Press.
Parsons Talcott, Bales Robert F. 1955. Family, Socialization and Interaction Process. Glencoe, IL: Free Press.
Patterson Orlando. 2014. “Making Sense of Culture.” Annual Review of Sociology 40:1–30.
Pedahzur A., Perliger A., Weinberg L. 2003. “Altruism and Fatalism: The Characteristics of Palestinian Suicide Terrorists.” Deviant Behavior 24(4):403–23.
Pescosolido Bernice A. 1990. “The Social Context of Religious Integration and Suicide: Pursuing Network Explanation.” Sociological Quarterly 31(3):337–57.
Pescosolido Bernice A. 1994. “Bringing Durkheim into the Twenty-first Century: A Network Approach to Unresolved Issues in the Sociology of Suicide.” Pp. 264–93 in Émile Durkheim: Le Suicide 100 Years Later, edited by Lester D. Philadelphia, PA: The Charles Press.
Pescosolido Bernice A., Georgianna Sharon. 1989. “Durkheim, Suicide, and Religion: Toward a Network Theory of Suicide.” American Sociological Review 54(1):33–48.
Poggi Gianfranco. 2000. Durkheim. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press.
Pope Whitney. 1976. Durkheim’s Suicide: A Classic Analyzed. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
Putnam Robert D. 2000. Bowling Alone: The Collapse and Revival of American Community. New York: Simon and Schuster.
Reger Mark A., Smolenski Derek J., Skopp Nancy A., Metzger-Abamukang Melinda J., Kang Han K., Bullman Tim A., Perdue Sondra, Gahm Gregory A. 2015. “Risk of Suicide among US Military Service Members Following Operation Enduring Freedom or Operation Iraqi Freedom Deployment and Separation from the US Military.” JAMA Psychiatry 72(6):561–69.
Ridgeway Cecilia L. 2001. “Inequality, Status, and the Construction of Status Beliefs.” Pp. 323–42 in The Handbook of Sociological Theory, edited by Turner J. H. New York: Kluwer/Plenum.
Ridgeway Cecilia L. 2006a. “Expectation States Theory and Emotion.” Pp. 374–67 in Handbook of the Sociology of Emotions, edited by Stets J. E., Turner J. H. New York: Springer.
Ridgeway Cecilia L. 2006b. “Status Construction Theory.” Pp. 301–23 in Contemporary Social Psychological Theories, edited by Burke P. J. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press.
Ridgeway Cecilia L., Correll Shelley J. 2004. “Motherhood as a Status Characteristic.” Journal of Social Issues 60(4):683–700.
Rockett Ian R. H., Samora Julie B., Coben Jeffrey H. 2006. “The Black-White Suicide Paradox: Possible Effects of Misclassification.” Social Science and Medicine 63(8):2165–75.
Rosenfield Sarah. 1982. “Sex Roles and Societal Reactions to Mental Illness: The Labeling of ‘Deviant’ Deviance.” Journal of Health and Social Behavior 23(1):18–24.
Ryan Caitlin, Russell Stephen T., Huebner David, Diaz Rafael, Sanchez Jorge. 2010. “Family Acceptance in Adolescence and the Health of LGBT Young Adults.” Journal of Child and Adolescent Psychiatric Nursing 23(4):205–13.
Scheff Thomas. 1997. Emotions, the Social Bond, and Human Reality. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press.
Serpe Richard T. 1987. “Stability and Change in Self: A Symbolic Interactionist Explanation.” Social Psychological Quarterly 50(1):44–55.
Sherif Muzafer, Sherif Caroline. 1953. Groups in Harmony and Tension. New York: Harper.
Shneidman Edwin. 1993. Suicide as Psychache: A Clinical Approach to Self-destructive Behavior. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield.
Small Mario Luis. 2004. Villa Victoria: The Transformation of Social Capital in a Boston Barrio. Chicago: University of Chicago.
Spies Erica, Ivey-Stephenson Asha, VanderEnde Kristin, Lynch Sean, Dean David, Gleason Brigette. 2014. “CDC Epi-Aid Report on Youth Suicide in Fairfax County.” Retrieved January 20, 2018. (https://www.sprc.org/resources-programs/cdc-epi-aid-report-youth-suicide-fairfax-county).
Stack Steven. 1979. “Durkheim’s Theory of Fatalistic Suicide: A Cross-national Approach.” Journal of Social Psychology 107(1):161–68.
Stack Steven, Abrutyn Seth. 2015. “Suicide by Fire: Ethnicity as a Predictor of Self Immolation in the U.S.” Pp. 193–210 in Suicide as Performance, edited by Lester D., Stack S. New York: Transaction.
Stevenson Lisa. 2014. Life beside Itself: Imagining Care in the Canadian Arctic. Berkeley: University of California Press.
Stryker Sheldon. 1980. Symbolic Interactionism: A Social Structural Version. Menlo Park, CA: The Benjamin Cummings Publishing Company.
Sudak Howard, Maxim Karen, Carpenter Maryellen. 2008. “Suicide and Stigma: A Review of the Literature and Personal Reflections.” Academic Psychiatry 32(2):136–42.
Tangney June Price, Dearing Ronda L. 2002. Shame and Guilt. New York: Guilford.
Tarde Gabriel. 1903. The Laws of Imitation. New York: Henry Holt.
Thakur U. 1963. The History of Suicide in India: An Introduction. Delhi: Munshiram.
Thoits Peggy A. 2013. “Self, Identity, and Mental Health.” Pp. 357–77 in Handbook of the Sociology of Mental Health, edited by Aneshenel C. S., Phelan J. C., Avinson W. R. New York: Springer.
Timmermans Stefan. 2006. Postmortem: How Medical Examiners Explain Suspicious Deaths. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
Tousignant Michel. 1998. “Suicide in Small-scale Societies.” Transcultural Psychiatry 35(2):291–306.
Turner Jonathan H. 2007. Human Emotions: A Sociological Theory. New York: Routledge.
Turner Jonathan H. 2010. Theoretical Principles of Sociology, Volume 2: Microdynamics. New York: Springer.
Umberson Debra, Montez Jennifer Karas. 2010. “Social Relationships and Health: A Flashpoint for Health Policy.” Journal of Health and Social Behavior 51(1 Suppl):S54–66.
Vaisey Stephen. 2009. “Motivation and Justification: A Dual Process Model of Culture in Action.” American Journal of Sociology 114(6):1675–715.
van Bergen D., Anton J. H. Smit, van Balkom J. L. M., Saharson S. 2009. “Suicidal Behavior of Young Immigrant Women in the Netherlands: Can We Use Durkheim’s Concept of ‘Fatalistic Suicide’ to Explain Their High Incidence of Attempted Suicide.” Ethnic and Racial Studies 32(2):302–22.
van Orden Kimberly A., Witte Tracy K., Cukrowicz Kelly C., Braithwaite Scott R., Selby Edward A., Joiner Thomas E. Jr. 2010. “The Interpersonal Theory of Suicide.” Psychological Review 117(2):575–600.
Vijaykumar Lakshmi. 2004. “Altrusitic Suicide in India.” Archives of Suicide Research 8(1):73–80.
Whyte William Foote. 1969. Street Corner Society: The Social Structure of an Italian Slum. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
Wray Matt, Colen Cynthia, Pescosolido Bernice A. 2011. “The Sociology of Suicide.” Annual Review of Sociology 37:505–28.
Biographies
Dr. Seth Abrutyn is an assistant professor in the Department of Sociology at the University of British Columbia. As a theorist, Abrutyn examines the intersection of meso-level structure and culture and the micro-level dynamics such as identity and emotions. His research on suicide provides a fundamental social phenomenon through which he can shed light on this theoretical puzzle. His work on suicide with Anna Mueller has won several awards for its contributions to knowledge and has been published in journals such as the American Sociological Review, Sociological Theory, and the Journal of Health and Social Behavior. For more about Dr. Abrutyn, visit www.sethabrutyn.wordpress.com.
Dr. Anna S. Mueller is an assistant professor in the Department of Comparative Human Development and the College at the University of Chicago. Mueller’s research examines the sociocultural foundations of suicide diffusion, particularly in adolescence. To do this, she integrates insights from social psychology, cultural sociology, sociology of emotions, and social network theories. Her research on suicide with Seth Abrutyn has won several awards for its contributions to knowledge and has been published in journals such as the American Sociological Review, the Journal of Health and Social Behavior, and Sociological Theory. For more about Dr. Mueller, visit www.annasmueller.com.
Cite article
Cite article
Cite article
OR
Download to reference manager
If you have citation software installed, you can download article citation data to the citation manager of your choice
Information, rights and permissions
Information
Published In
Article first published online: March 27, 2018
Issue published: March 2018
Keywords
Authors
Metrics and citations
Metrics
Article usage*
Total views and downloads: 7118
*Article usage tracking started in December 2016
Altmetric
See the impact this article is making through the number of times it’s been read, and the Altmetric Score.
Learn more about the Altmetric Scores
Articles citing this one
Receive email alerts when this article is cited
Web of Science: 43 view articles Opens in new tab
Crossref: 38
-
Phenomenology, Cultural Meaning, and the Curious Case of Suicide: Loca...
-
The Culturally Infused Curricular Framework (CICF) for Suicide Prevent...
-
Gambling, social integration and sources of strain in cases of suicide...
-
A trans-conceptual model for suicide prevention in social work practic...
-
Social Infrastructure Availability and Suicide Rates among Working-Age...
-
Suicide as slow death: Towards a haunted sociology of suicide
-
Revisiting the work-suicide link: renewed evidence and models of analy...
-
The Roles of Adolescent Occupational Expectations and Preparation in A...
-
Pitilessly blocked futures and violently choked passions: A case for f...
-
“Is This Really Our Problem?”: A Qualitative Exploration of Black Amer...
-
Deindustrialization, social disintegration, and health: a neoclassical...
-
Psychometric Properties of the Bangla Brief Suicide Cognitions Scale a...
-
Why (not) suicide: Habitus in hysteresis and the space of possibles
-
What about Development? Social Capital and Suicide
-
Suicidal ideation and social integration in three Canadian provinces: ...
-
Examining the Association between Racialized Economic Threat and White...
-
Betwixt and Between: Suicide, Sociology, and the Problem of Meaning
-
Predicting Suicide in Counties: Creating a Quantitative Measure of Sui...
-
The social fact in Durkheim’s late work: Structural hermeneutics, posi...
-
Suicide in cultural context: An ecosocial approach
-
Expanding our paradigms: Intersectional and socioecological approaches...
-
Unemployment, religious disintegration and suicide fluctuations in Alb...
-
Mapping Institutional Interventions to Mitigate Suicides: A Study of C...
-
Understanding the Situational Context for Interpersonal Violence: A Re...
-
Romantic Relationship Quality and Suicidal Ideation in Young Adulthood
-
Community-level factors and incidence of gun violence in the United St...
-
Moral Intuitions and Suicide Risk: Results from a National Sample of I...
-
Does Differentiation Matter to Sociology?
-
Theories of Suicidal Thoughts and Behaviors: What Exists and What Is N...
-
Association of Job Expectations Among High School Students With Early ...
-
The werther effect revisited: Do suicides in books predict actual suic...
-
Risk and protective factors for suicide among Guyanese youth: Youth an...
-
Rekeying Cultural Scripts for Youth Suicide: How Social Networks Facil...
-
The Role of Multilayered Peer Groups in Adolescent Depression: A Distr...
-
Is there a relationship between welfare-state policies and suicide rat...
-
Boys don’t cry? Critical phenomenology, self-harm and suicide
-
Tehran's troubled youth: a neo‐Durkheimian analysis of suicidality and...
-
Toward a General Theory of Anomie The Social Psychology of Disintegrat...
Figures and tables
Figures & Media
Tables
View Options
Get access
Access options
If you have access to journal content via a personal subscription, university, library, employer or society, select from the options below:
loading institutional access options
ASA members can access this journal content using society membership credentials.
ASA members can access this journal content using society membership credentials.
Alternatively, view purchase options below:
Purchase 24 hour online access to view and download content.
Access journal content via a DeepDyve subscription or find out more about this option.
