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The sociology of suicide.

Wray, Matt, Colen, Cynthia, Pescosolido, Bernice·2011·Annual Review of Sociology
DOI 10.1146/annurev-soc-081309-150058
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Since Durkheim's classic work on suicide, sociological attention to understanding the roots of self-destruction has been inconsistent. In this review, we use three historical periods of interest (pre-Durkheim, Durkheim, post-Durkheim) to organize basic findings in the body of sociological knowledge regarding suicide. Much of the twentieth-century research focused on issues of integration and regulation, imitation, and the social construction of suicide rates. Innovations in the twenty-first-century resurgence of sociological research on suicide are described in detail. These newer studies begin to redirect theory and analysis toward a focus on ethnoracial subgroups, individual-level phenomena (e.g., ideation), and age-period-cohort effects. Our analysis of sociology's contributions, limits, and possibilities leads to a recognition of the need to break through bifurcations in individual- and aggregate-level studies, to pursue the translation of Durkheim's original theory into a network perspective as one avenue of guiding micro-macro research, and to attend to the complexity in both multidisciplinary explanations and pragmatic interventions.

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  • Durkheim's basic premise that being highly integrated is protective against suicide has received consistent strong empirical support across time and space and disciplinary boundaries.

    “Durkheim’s basic premise – that being highly integrated (whether measured at the collective level or through individual perceptions) is protective against suicide – has received consistent strong empirical support across time and space and disciplinary boundaries (Stack, 2000; Joiner, 2005; Wray et al., 2011).”

    From The Social Roots of Suicide: Theorizing How the External Social World Matters to Suicide and Suicide Prevention (2021) · cites this paper as Wray et al., 2011

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  1. Cavan R., 1928, Suicide
  2. Coser RL, 1979, Dissent, 26, 158
  3. Durkheim E., 2006, On Suicide
  4. Fischer CS., 1982, To Dwell Among Friends
  5. Heron M., 2010, Natl. Vital Stat. Rep. Vol. 58(14)
  6. Pescosolido BA., 1994, Le Suicide 100 Years Later, 264
  7. Schmid C., 1928, Suicide in Seattle: 1914–1925
  8. Sennett R., 2006, On Suicide, xi
  9. Stack S, 1994, Centennial of Durkheim's Le Suicide, 237
  10. Tarde GD, 1903, The Laws of Imitation
  11. Wray M, 2007, Interviewing the dead: suicide and the limits of the psychological autopsy

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Authors
Wray, M., Colen, C., & Pescosolido, B.
Affiliations
  • Temple University (US)
  • The Ohio State University (US)
  • Indiana University Bloomington (US)
ORCID
Venue
Annual Review of Sociology
Publisher
Annual Reviews
Published
2011-08-11
Volume
37
Issue
1
Pages
505-528
ISSN
  • 0360-0572 (ISSN-L)
  • 1545-2115
DOI
10.1146/annurev-soc-081309-150058
OpenAlex
W2138225952
Cited by
358
References
167
Citations by year
2026: 22 · 2025: 17 · 2024: 20 · 2023: 15 · 2022: 17 · 2021: 78 · 2020: 23 · 2019: 18 · 2018: 15 · 2017: 53 · 2016: 11 · 2015: 22 · 2014: 22 · 2013: 11 · 2012: 10
FWCI
2.09
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
closed
Locations
Annual Review of Sociology (publishedVersion)
Topics
  • Social Sciences › Psychology › Clinical Psychology › Suicide and Self-Harm Studies
  • Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Emile Durkheim and Sociology
  • Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Homicide, Infanticide, and Child Abuse
Keywords
suicide, Émile Durkheim, social integration, social regulation, imitation, suicidal ideation, age-period-cohort effects, micro-macro relationship, network perspective, suicide intervention

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