Question

Durkheim identified three characteristics that made a person more vulnerable to committing suicide, what are this characteristics?and how applicable are they today?

Answer 1

Ans) Durkheim's definition: Suicide is applied to all cases of death resulting directly or indirectly from a positive or negative act of the victim himself, which he knows will produce this result.

Durkheim identified three characteristics that made a person more vulnerable to committing suicide:

- Durkheim's project again fell naturally into three parts:

First, an examination of those extra-social causes sufficiently general to have a possible effect on the social suicide rate (but which in fact influence it little, if at all);

Second, the determination of the nature of the social causes, the way in which they produce their effects and their relations to those individual conditions normally associated with the different kinds of suicide;

Third, the more precise account of the "suicide aptitude" described above, of its relation to other social facts, and of the means by which this collective tendency might be counteracted.