In this major new study Christian Baudelot and Roger Establet
provide a timely and wide-ranging account of the changing nature of
suicide in the world today. The suicide rate is soaring in the
former Communist bloc, in India and in China, which now has the
highest female suicide rate in the world. This rise coincides with
those countries accelerated entry into a period of brutal
modernization. In the developed countries of the West, suicide
rates are rising fastest amongst young men and those social groups
that are furthest down the social scale. How can we explain these
trends and what do they tell us about modern societies?
The social impact of suicide has preoccupied sociologists from
Emile Durkheim onwards. For Durkheim, the rising suicide rate was
an effect of the rise of modernity and the individualism, growing
affluence and increased anomie that accompanied it. Baudelot and
Establet draw upon Durkheim and his successor Maurice Halbwachs to
argue that classic sociological theories of suicide require some
modification. The link between suicide, affluence and individualism
is more complex: suicide rates do reflect broad social trends but
they are also influenced by the structural position and lived
experience of small social groups. The notion of social well-being
is demonstrated to be a key factor in changes in suicide rates.
Whilst it is well-known that sociology cannot explain why
individuals commit suicide, the suicide of individuals and the
micro-groups to which they belong can tell us a lot about the
societies in which they live.
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