Citation

Giudicelli GW, Taylor MJ, White KR, Allen TS. Soc. Forces 1994; 72(4): 1249-1255.

Copyright

(Copyright © 1994, Social Forces Journal, Publisher University of North Carolina Press)

DOI

10.1093/sf/72.4.1249

PMID

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Abstract

Stack and Gundlach (1992) report a strong link between country music and metro-politan suicide rates for whites. In this article, we argue that the authors (l) fall into the methodological trap of the "cological fallacy" and (2) present weak arguments on causality by purporting that a country music subculture, at least partially, explains suicides among whites in metropolitan areas. We conclude that inferences about individual behavior drawn from aggregate data are fallacious and that the authors fail to provide compelling evidence to support that country music is any different from others types of music in its relationship to individual life events and suicide. © 1994 The University of North Carolina Press.

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