Suicide - A synoptic approach
Medium
Periodical Article
Medium
- part of - (Periodical Copy) (Date) Apr2003 (Volume) 12 (Number) 4
Classif
301 SOC
Subject
Sociology
Page
26 - 28
Authors
Swale, Jill
Contents
Back in 1997 the USA was shaken by the mass suicide of American members of a religious cult, Heaven's Gate. In Britain today we read of the high suicide rates of young men and of Asian women. To what extent are these, and other recent suicide events, related to the famous sociological studies of suicide by Durkheim, Douglas and Atkinson?